I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Nov 2010
Interview
applied through MS's website and got a phone interview. Asked about constructing a contact list management system. Writing some codes on a whiteboard websystem. Got an on-site interview with the Office group. All questions are about programming though there are warm-up behaviorial questions.
All programming questions are not demanding, but somehow tricky.Need to write codes on whiteboards. Can use any programming language you like.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Designing a process scheduling system that will call a certain process at a give possibility.
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.
Interview questions [1]
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
