I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Inspur Group (Bellevue, WA) in Jul 2014
Interview
The Inspur contracting agent talked with me about my Scope/Cosmos experience at Microsoft and about the team being built.
The Microsoft hiring manager described the project and the work. Since I had worked in this space and division previously as a full-time Microsoft employee, I was able to provide a number of personal references that both of us were acquainted with.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
I don't remember being asked any outright questions, we discussed dimension-conformation, Data-Warehousing fundamentals and Cosmos/Scope basics.