The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jun 2018
Interview
Initial screening over a phone call. Lasted around 30-40mins.
Next 3 PM rounds at Microsoft office.
3 PMs each from a different team. Product wasn’t known for which they were hiring and each pne evaluated for their own product-line. The hiring was for some product under O365 suite.
Round 1: ~90Mins
Round 2: ~ 45Mins
Round 3: ~70Mins
You have a restaurant in Koramangala providing fine dining experience to customers. Provides Punjabi food. What KPIs do you measure?
Say all the KPIs are flat, assuming your visitors are constant but customers served are reducing per month and those turning down are increasing. What could be the reason?
You are flipkart and you see customers coming to your site looking at the product (window shopping) but not buying the product (no conversion). They are purchasing it from the same sellers retail store (brick & mortar). How do you activate or convert such customers? (monetization)
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Mar 2018
Interview
Was referred and had a phone screening with one of the Sr PMs in the team. Was invited to have an on-site. All went well, until one interviewer asked me tech stuff that had no relevance to what I had done. Got dinged after four rounds.
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jan 2018
Interview
1 phone screen and 5 interviews over the course of two weeks. Met with 3 the first day who were more senior employees than the role interviewing for; met with 2 additional employees second day which included the As Appropriate as the final interviewer. Having been a former MS employee I understood the culture. After having left years ago, I was less than impressed with how many of the interviewers showed more arrogance than other companies I was considering (why should we hire you mentality). Additionally, with this particular group there was lack of appreciation for think big and out of the box ideas and more focus on technical abilities. A few in the loop were great, don’t get me wrong but it felt like those few were exceptions and not the norm. Didn’t feel energized to work there.