I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv-Yafo) in Aug 2015
Interview
Iwa s contacted by an HR representative that told me a little bit about the job and schedule the interview. The interview was with one of the other software developer in the team. After discussing my resume, there was a technical question and then time for my questions.
The interviewer got out while I wrote the answer.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write code to solve a problem in Polish notation. e.g : 1 2 3 + / is 1/(2+3)
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Mangaluru) in Aug 2012
Interview
2 written rounds.
3 interviews.
All on paper. Questions were general algo and data structure questions.
Interviews were between 45 and 90 minutes.
Interviewers were helpful.
Time between interviews was short.
Had a quick fire round in one of the interviews.
All in all it was a good experience.
Interviews were all on same day.
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2013
Interview
I met the recruiters on campus and then applied online. Then there 1 phone calls prep phone call from an employee. He gave me advice on how to interview with them, and what to expect. Then I had 2 phone calls interviews. Then they flew me to Redmond and on-site interview I had 5 interviews, 1:1, with different teams, each an hour long, one after the other. I was offered the internship the same day.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How would you determine if a deck of cards is well or poorly shuffled?