I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Oct 2009
Interview
Phone Interview:
1.Why Microsoft?
On Site
1. Staffing Partner: Which company would you choose if you get an offer from the company you are interning at or Microsoft?
2. First Interviewer (Senior Developer): Tell me about yourself?
Tell me about your project?
3. Peer Software Engineer: Gave me design question about designing a gambling website where all the participants know that the other guy is not playing foul.
4. Lunch interview: Asked given a BST find the second largest element?
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Gave me design question about designing a gambling website where all the participants know that the other guy is not playing foul.
Hacker Rank test and 3 Rounds of coding plus experience based interview.
Position was for QA who should have Storage and Networking knowledge. So basic questions on storage and networking.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2020
Interview
Full day process broken into multiple individual one on one interviews which can include time at the blackboard writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you write a script to reverse the contents of an array?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sydney) in Mar 2015
Interview
Applied through a university recruiter, and got to do an on-campus interview. The question was very easy (add an item to a sorted linked list) and I got to fly to Sydney for the next round. The second round consisted of 4 individual interviews with different people, with a range of difficulty for their interview questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw the system architecture of one of your projects
