I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2013
Interview
It was a phone screening interview for the BI solution developer position. It was arranged almost 2 months after I submitted my CV. I was interviewed by two developers on the phone. The sound quality was terrible and the was a lot of echoes and noises so I could hardly recognize the words and so was very difficult to understand the questions. The whole interview took about 1 hour. I was asked about 10 questions - some from theoretical areas, some was practical (i.e. to solve a task by writing a query).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to create a dynamic OLAP cube security model (when you have thousands of users and you can't use Roles to define database security)
It's an internal transfer. People in the targeting team are nice. I was not preparing much since it's the first interview I have had after working for a long time.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Basic interface functions of the radio is provided. Find the 6 best signaled radio channel frequencies.
Reverse word, reverse words in string (e.g. abcde->edcba, foo bar=>rab oof)
Find common ancestor from binary tree and non binary tree
Find median from 2 unsorted arrays
Implement Queue using circular array