Microsoft Senior Engineer Software Development interview questions

Phone interview with recruiter - high level + coding assignment to be submitted with application (write a linked list class with tests, show how to get 5th from the last item of a singly linked list in one iteration). Full day interviews with managers, developers - whiteboard coding - Binary Search Trees, Thread safety, Design Patterns, discussions on web service/general networking protocols, etc.

I was initially contacted by a third-party recruiter working for Microsoft about a position in the xbox team. Not expecting much I went along with the process and spoke the recruiter and then another one. Finally I was setup with a phone-screen by the hiring manager which was pretty straightforward with a few questions about basic algorithms etc. After which I was asked to fly in to Redmond at Microsoft's expense which seemed like a sin to turn down. Flew upto Seattle from California the day before and was put up in a pretty nice 4-star place in Redmond. Microsoft goes all out in taking care of its candidates, very professional indeed. The whole next day was spent in the Microsoft campus with various 1-on-1 meetings starting with a new Recruiter and then every one else was either an engineer or a Manager. Each interview seemed to focus on a different type of questioning including Algorithms, coding, white-boarding, transactions, process, deployment etc. It was a very well rounded interview process and did not focus on just 1 kind of questioning like other companies. Finished the day feeling pretty confident about my performance and to my surprise got a call from the recruiter the very same night with a verbal offer !