I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2008
Interview
Interview process was very good. I had an initial phone interview, followed by an on site interview. I had a total of 6 on site interviews. The on site interviews were very challenging, but fun. The interviewers made it seem very casual. There was mainly design questions with psuedo code on the whiteboard.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design and test a system to figure out if a shape is closed or not
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2008
Interview
Technical phone interview, written exam, and an in person behavioural interview.
Did a split loop interview between 2 teams and got an offer from one. Most of the questions were creating an algorithm to solve a problem then list the inputs to test the algorithm. No brain teasers were given on the interviews