I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jun 2008
Interview
Got the interview through Campus Selection. There was a first round of shortlisting based on resumes, followed by written test. Followed by 1 telephonic and 4 rounds of face to face technical itnerviews.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Most difficult or rather interesting discussion was around my final semester project in college. It was a design question which led to the discussion to my project. Something related to fixed size buffers for holding data and buffer management algorithms
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jul 2012
Interview
I got a call from recruiter after applying online, had a very basic telephonic interview, followed by a full day in-person interview. Overall experience was positive.
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2011
Interview
Submitted my resume to my university, had an on-campus interview, and then called to interview on site in Redmond, WA. They provided taxis to the interview site and shuttles from building to building. Interviews were challenging but the questions were fun to solve. Had the opportunity to learn a lot about one of Microsoft's major platforms.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can't share the exact question but different questions I haven't seen using divide and conquer, greedy algorithms, some design and providing test cases.