The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2009
Interview
interview started out with brief intro. they were quite thorough on the details I provided in the candidate interest form. the interviewer asked why i chose both test and dev. give an example of breaking a product.
then we moved on to a programming question. given a very long string, write a program to determine the unique words in the string.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
testing is about breaking things, describe an example where you found a defect in something by trying to break it.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2010
Interview
Just applied on-line and then got an on-campus interview. Before the interview, I got emails from HR to fill in some forms. The interview lasted half hour and the interviewer is a program/product manager who doesn't have much technical background even though it was a technical interview. As a result, we had difficulty in understanging each other...
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2009
Interview
A hiring manager had set me up for interview. He wasn't very helpful as he did not even listen or understand what kind of roles I wanted. I wasnt able to hear him on phone, but he was bent on not calling me again.
I did fly to redmond after an on-campus round, but the team was not at all a good match.