I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Florida, MA) in Feb 2010
Interview
I was an on-campus interview and pleasant. I was asked about various products of Microsoft, which product do i like most, what modification (if any) i would like to do with this product? Compare Bing and Google? Which product i hate most and why? Asked me about my current projects?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2010
Interview
I was interviewed with a group belongs to the Office suite. The interviewers are nice. I had four one-on-one interviews in a day. The only thing I don't feel good about it is how the interviewers control the time in order to finish in a one-hour period. The result would be much better if the time was being controlled well.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Ask you to perform some testing on a particular feature in one of their products.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Fargo, ND) in Oct 2009
Interview
I had a 60 minute screening phone interview with a recruiter on one day. This interview consisted of the basic HR-type questions (legal resident, brief review of resume, etc). The next day I had a 60 minute technical phone interview with the hiring manager. This was more involved, dealing more with C# experience, application experience, and past projects that required software testing. Approximately two weeks after the phone interviews I traveled to Fargo for an all-day in-person interview. This day I met with 7 or 8 people, including the recruiter, position peers, the hiring manager, and finally the product manager. In total the interviews went for 7 hours including a working lunch.
Peers were focused on C# knowledge. A lot of C# knowledge. There were a lot of programming examples to hand-code on a white board. The managers were more focused on past application experience, how much I had worked with their specific product, and how much I had worked on other similar products.