I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2009
Interview
The interview was with a Product Manager and she asked started with behavioral questions, and then dug into marketing strategy questions.
Finally, there were a lot of questions about Microsft and its competitors. How could Microsoft remain ahead of its competition? What are the current weaknesses of Microsoft and how as a Product Mananger will you improve them?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You have $10 million to promote Xbox. How will you break it up?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2009
Interview
The guy who interviewed me was really tired and almost fell asleep a couple of times during normal conversation... He said he liked the job at MS but there are politics and stuff to deal with; asked a lot of why MS, why Product manager, do you even know what a product manager does, and fit type questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
give me an example where you were the users' advocate and worked on changing the UI for the users against the engineers design.
I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Apr 2008
Interview
I have no comments - this was just a normal interview process starting with phone interview and then onsite interview. The entire process was pretty short and it only took about 1 hour and I was told I can leave. I did not get the chance to talk with anybody else except for the first guy I talked to.