I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Haifa) in Sep 2021
Interview
the first stage interview include a simple codility test which had 3 questions about different subjects like backtracking, sorting problems, strings, arrays and overall the questions are about basic cs knowledge.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
here is a 40 kg stone that broke into 4 pieces such that you can measure any weight between 1kg to 40 kg using a balance. What are the weights of the broken pieces?
It was a phone interview and my interviewer was friendly throughout. It took about 30 minutes in total. He asked mainly technical questions and a little bit of behavioral questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What are your favorite and worst Microsoft products?
First round--30 minutes, a few behaviorals and a coding question (medium level) on Codility
Final round-- 2 45 minute back to back interviews, each one had some behavioral questions and a coding question. Both coding questions were easy