I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Feb 2013
Interview
Was called about a month after submitting my resume at my school's career fair. Had a non-technical phone screen asking me about a couple of my projects and found out after a couple of days that I would be flown out to the headquarters in Seattle.
I had three interviewers, one by a senior PM and the other two by software engineers. The PM interview asked me some broad design questions and the other two delved into sketching user interfaces and coding on a whiteboard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
From a hardware perspective, how would you implement the kinect?
Interviewed once behavioral then two technical. Very simple questions and LC easy. They were forgiving if it didn’t run. Asked specific questions about projects from my resume, asking me to describe how I built them. Heard back within a week but status changed in portal before this.
i got straight to the final round, which was two back to back interview, and the first focused on behavioural, like describing a conflict between you and a co-worker, how would you reachout for help ina group project, and the second one was coding, where I had two questions, and both were easy leetcode question
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a restaurant that can track the hours when the restaurant is busy
back to back interviews, first behavioral and second technical. could be different for others. hear back within 2 weeks. they’re pretty straight forward based in interview some are nice some more strict.