I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2011
Interview
- Recruiter contacted me via LinkedIn
- Went to the hiring event
- Following day it was full loop interview at the hiring event
- Acceptance a day later
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2013
Interview
On campus interview, Lasts 30 mins. Overall, the interviewer is very nice.
Interview questions:
Q1. Introduce the most interesting project you did.
Q2. How you tackle the problem from this project?
Q3. Write any program in 2 mins and how you are going to test the program you just wrote.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Charlotte, NC)
Interview
I applied online through the university portal and received an email about conducting a phone interview about a month later. The phone interview went well, it was mostly questions about what I had done so far in college with a few related to programming. A couple weeks later I received an invitation for an in-person interview in Cambridge, but it was later changed to Charlotte. The interview was Microsoft's usual 5-6 rounds of one on one sessions, with lunch after the third one. Everyone was very friendly and professional.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Creating a detailed test plan for functions related to gaming, e.g. collision detection