I applied online. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Copenhague, Hovedstaden) in Dec 2013
Interview
I applied online through the Microsoft Career site. After two months they communicated me their interest. Then we scheduled for the first round interview which is the Skype interview. It went good and I passed. The second round was on site interview with the Senior Software Development Engineers at Copenhagen, Denmark. They set up flight and hotel and gave me information how to reach there and scheduled for the Interview one month after phone interview. I went to Denmark and the interview was very nice and based on my skills, knowledge and experience. It was a one to one interview with three Software Engineers in rotation lasting about 45 minutes. It has been a bit difficult for me at that time, but the questions are nice and not off skills. Since I didn’t prepared well, I didn’t perform well on the technical interview and I went out of the process. They reimburse the money for the transportation expenses of taxis and trains. They are nice that the way they approach and tried to help you come up at the result. Overall it was a great lesson and experience I got. Get a good preparation not to miss the basics and get relaxed on being yourself. Follow the what they recommend to get best out of it.
It was on 2013.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Obvious technical interview focus areas as they put in their career website: data structures and algorithms and database like SQL.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in May 2013
Interview
Applied online
Received call from recruiter and had an informal light interview, then scheduled a phone interview with hiring manager
5 interviews all 1 hour long; included a lunch interview
Combination of testing questions, vendor management questions, coding questions, and one interviewer was a program manager
Most interviewers are very friendly. Received offer within days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What would you do if the vendor test team you are managing is not performing as well as before?
How would you test a soda machine
Multiple questions on black box testing & white box testing
Write code (based on what you claim to know from your resume) on extracting prime numbers from 1 - 100000.
Write code extracting all users from a SQL DB where SS# starts with ###.
Based on what code you write, they ask follow up how you would test your code
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (College Park, MD) in Oct 2015
Interview
This was an 30 mins on-campus interview. 10 mins for behavior questions and 15 mins for technical questions. 5 mins to ask the interviewer questions.
This was an 30 mins on-campus interview. 10 mins for behavior questions and 15 mins for technical questions. 5 mins to ask the interviewer questions.