I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Nov 2011
Interview
I was interviewing for a product manager position. The phone interview was straight forward. One question that was surprising was "Tell me how you would design a kitchen." Be ready for a clever question like this!
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2012
Interview
Interview started with questions about background and experience. Then there were technical questions about binary trees and data structures. Then I was asked to design a water bottle, and how to perform quality assurance on the product.
the interviewer seemed to love his job and working for Microsoft. He was very personable and at end of interview offered advice on how I could perform better next time.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dublín, Dublín) in Mar 2012
Interview
I attended an on-campus interview which consisted of two 30 minute interviews (one technical, the other with product focus) Then got invited to an on-site meeting (but due to visa problems, had to a live meeting instead). Although I was scheduled for 3 interviews that day, they decided not to carry on after the second one.
The on-campus technical interview was very easy. The product one was reasonable.
The first live meeting was like chat rather than an interview. I was asked about my experience (especially in user experience design). Second live meeting was about designing a product and possible way of incorporating it into a Microsoft product.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How do you reverse the order of words in a given sentence?
(e.g. Today is sunny -> sunny is Today)
You have to write the code in a language of choice