I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft
Interview
Submitted application through college, and e-mailed back and forth with recruiter. There are multiple recruiters in charge of handling each person, which sometimes could be inefficient. There was a 20-minute interview on campus. The interviewer was really personable and friendly. He gave a little bit of guidance through the problems, but it is best to go faster so he does not need to speed you along.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design an elevator system with multiple elevators - class diagram
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Nov 2012
Interview
Applied through a job fair and got an email from Microsoft the next week. Had my first interview through the phone and was asked all design related questions: test a pen, design an alarm clock for a visually-impaired person, etc. Received an email the next day informing me that I had made it to the next round.
Interviewed at Microsoft's Boston location. One of the interviewers was indisposed, so we only had three interviews instead of the intended four. They asked one technical question per round which didn't take up all the time, and we also discussed my resume and previous experience.
The process took the entire morning, after which they fed us lunch and told us the results. This gave us the entire afternoon to explore the city.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
If you have two circles on a Cartesian plane and are given only their radii and the location of their center points on the plane, how can you tell if they overlap?
Write a program the determines if a word is a palindrome or not. Then test it.