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I applied in-person. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tempe, AZ) in Nov 2012
Interview
It is first on-campus interview.
The interviewer asked me two behavior questions and one coding question.
The first question is why I am pursuing a Ph. D degree while I am planning to work as a SDE.
The second question is to tell about a tough experience.
Finally, I was asked to write a piece of code to count how many a's before the first b in a char array.