Microsoft Software Development Engineer interview questions

College Career Fair followed by an on campus interview followed by a phone screen and then onsite. The phone interview had some puzzles like 1. How will you measure 45 min with 2 ropes which exactly burn in one hour each? 2. Background and experience questions 3. Give a general idea how to remove comments from a C program

The recruiter was aggressive, he painted pretty pictures of new features and cool new technologies I would be working on, but in reality, I did over a year of bugfixing on a mature technology nearing maintenance stage. I was interviewed by 7 people overall, from 10am up to 6pm in the evening when I had the final conversation with the recruiter. The interview questions were not too hard, I got some usual questions on linked lists and trees. Other questions were mostly about hardware and low-level drivers. I wasn't asked any puzzles that MS was once famous for, but I got several interesting questions about emulating an old console game on modern hardware and about avoiding issues with problematic hardware.