I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2008
Interview
I got a call through referral.
Interview is 5 rounds. All the rounds almost went in the same pattern. Couple of coding questions and I need to write code on the whiteboard and general discussion.
Couple of questions I was asked
1) Reverse a linked list
2) Implement string tokenizer
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad)
Interview
interviews questions are standard ones but the difficulty level is at par with amazon etc.
a bit easier questions than google
3-5 rounds of technical interviews
no coding on the laptop etc
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
for an entry level:
connect all the siblings of a tree
I applied online, sent my resume, and got feedback that they'd like to talk to me. We arranged a phone interview and I filled some form details. The phone interview was at the time which was the most convenient for me, and we talked for around 25 minutes. The interviewer was very pleasant and motivating and even though I felt pressure because it was my first phone interview, I think I performed well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Technical questions were related to linked lists, other questions were more about me and my experience.