I applied through university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2011
Interview
Interview process was great, food and travel paid for. The interviews themselves were four back to back interviews with various members of my time. The questions were standard software engineering fare - removing duplicates, design this, design that, etc. Page through any standard book on interviews or data structures and you'll be fine. Lunch interview is AWKWARD. Be prepared for that one. Very timely response on the status of my offer (matter of minutes).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Set the pointer of every node in a binary tree to its right sibling.
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