I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Dec 2011
Interview
Was invited to a 1:1 interview at my college campus. The interview went well and I was forwarded on for a full day interview at the Seattle Microsoft campus. The date for that interview has been set, but it has not yet happened. In general, the interview process has been fine and the recruiters have been helpful, but the overall process has been slow.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
What is the largest / most difficult program you have written in C/C++?
The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2012
Interview
I had a 1:1 interview with microsoft on January 18, 2012. I applied online and they invited me for a 1:1 interview on campus. It lasted for about 30 minutes. They asked me some basic questions about Why Microsoft ?, What made you take up Computer Science as your major ? and stuff like that. Then they got into coding questions. They asked me two questions.
1) Reverse all the characters in a string before you encounter an 'x'. abcdxdd - > dcbaxdd
2) Reveres all the words in a string before you encounter a word which has 'x' in it.
Hi, I like Microsoft asdfxab Settle -> Microsoft like I Hi, asdfxab seattle.
They took 3 weeks to get back to me with results. They invited me for an Onsite interview at Seattle.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Reverse all the characters in a string before you encounter an 'x'. abcdxdd - > dcbaxdd
Reveres all the words in a string before you encounter a word which has 'x' in it.
Hi, I like Microsoft asdfxab Settle -> Microsoft like I Hi, asdfxab seattle.