I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade) in May 2012
Interview
I applied for Microsoft software development engineer in one of their European offices. The first part of the interview consisted of initial CV screening and written test exam.
I didn't prepare for it and screw up the test, hence didn't proceed to an interview.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have a tree with black and white nodes in it. The goal is to find the longest white path in a tree.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Mumbai) in Oct 2011
Interview
There were 4 rounds of interview, each of around 45-60 minutes.
Inteviewers were basically intersted in checking problem solving skills and asked some questions on data structures and asked me code those using language of my choice.
Some of questions were regarding OS and I was asked to write code on that too.
Overall it was good process , enjoyed it :)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In one of the round interviewer asked me to write code for deadlock prevention in for system in which resorce requests come from processes dynamically (at run time)
I applied through college or university. The process took 6 months. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
I applied for Microsoft through a university job fair and received an email about scheduling an interview. I went to an on-campus interview with a Microsoft employee, who was not human resources but was a software engineer and tested me out on minor programming tasks and asked me questions about my experience. There weren't any trick questions and the interview was very conversational and not as intimidating as others.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The most difficult question was simply: name an issue and how you resolved it. I was prepared for any programming question they could throw at me, but this one was more difficult. I was fortunate to have a lot of experience developing software in a team environment so I was able to answer this one pretty easily.