Microsoft Intern interview questions

The hiring process consisted of 3 personal interviews with developers of different managerial levels. The first 2 interviews were purely technical and the third was also personal. In my case the third was also the only one where they insisted that I write long C++ code on the blackboard and find my own syntax errors.

I met an employee during a campus visit in November of 2007. When someone in her team was looking for an intern, she recommended that he call me. I received an email from her colleague in March of 2008 requesting a phone interview, and he interviewed me on the phone 2 days later. He offered me the job, again over the phone, 4 days after our interview. During the interview, we talked about my approach to research, my experience writing code, my expectations for an internship during graduate school. I was not asked to solve any specific problems but I was asked to provide examples of both my academic and technical work. The interview was more like a conversation than like an interview. He did tell me that being recommended by one of his colleagues was a big boost for me.