I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Dec 2012
Interview
Two technical interviews each about two hours.
Writing code that solves specific problems.
The questions are fair - they are not looking if you know the latest and the sexiest API, but how you approach to the problem - looking for extreme and singular cases, defending against prominiet pitfalls.
Then interview with the group head - not technical but rather to understand one's character traits
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Solve integral image
Defending shared resources among threads
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Poznań, Greater Poland) in Nov 2015
Interview
I was invited to interview process thru LinkedIn. After one week I had interviews on my university. After that I was invited to Dublin, where I had a pleasure to meet a few guys. They asked about my experience and projects and gave me algorithm problems. Nothing to hard.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Washington, DC) in Oct 2015
Interview
I applied on campus career fair. Then got a campus interview invitation after two weeks. The interview lasted around 45mins. The interviewer let me introduce a project on my resume that I am most proud of. Then started the coding session. There were some follow ups. At the end is Q&A time.