I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jun 2010
Interview
Phone interviews lasted about an hour with recruiter. Pre-screen questions.
2nd phone interview with actual employee in the same job category
1:1 interviews after about 1 week wait.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Tell me about yourself in a 30K foot view in 3 minutes
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Mar 2008
Interview
It started with sreening interview and then for one full day interview at Hyderabad with 5 different people. each person focused on different aspects. one on algorithms, one on security, one on networking, one on general computing science understanding. Questions includes many puzzles, some algorithmic problem, how buffer overflow works etc