I applied through college or university. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2010
Interview
Went to an on campus screening section, then got an offer to fly down to Redmond for the interview. Since it's a big recruiting event for the on site interview, we had a big party (hosted and paid for by MS) the night before the interview at a bowling place with unlimited free food and (alcoholic) drinks. Did 4-5 back-to-back 1:1 interviews with the hiring managers and met with the recruiter that afternoon and was told that I received an offer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A lot of questions are pulled directly from "Programming Interviews Exposed", so read that book. One example is the telephone keypad to words question mentioned by others.
1 Phone Round that was 30 mins where I was asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions.
2 back to back 45 minute interviews each with 1 coding question.
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Question 1
In the phone interview, they asked me what technologies about Microsoft was exciting.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
One 30 min call with behavioral and simple coding question. Second round involves two 45-60 min coding/behavioral interviews, with a 10-15 min break between the two depending on how fast you finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Parsing code into a text document
2. Word search in a 2D array of words given a list of words.
1 Online Test
3 Technical Coding Interviews
They also asked about company culture fit questions and had a techno-hr round as the 3rd interview
The online test was fairly simple and heavily proctored and the company focuses on resume too
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Structures and Algorithms and also about OS and OOPs
