I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Dubai) in Dec 2017
Interview
The hiring manager left after 5 mins to take another call ( very unprofessional), the questions really not relevant, or where you can’t give an answer. They don’t let you finish your sentence. It felt they already made their decision before interviewing me. Please don’t waste other people’s time if you are not interested to hire them. I asked for feedback to improve, but they even didn’t take the time to share.
I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Washington, DC) in Sep 2017
Interview
The process consisted of the following steps:
1) Recruiter phone interview 2) competency questionnaire 3) hiring manager phone interview 4) panel interview with presentation on a scenario / interview immediately following
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 6 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Atlanta, GA) in Apr 2014
Interview
Several one hour phone calls with variety of people on the team. Spanned about a week to have all the calls. What was meant to be organized in the scheduling of the calls (time zones, people on the road), got a little crazy, but it worked out.It also took follow up on my part with my contact as the HR team that was handling the interview process was taking a long time between steps. My hiring manager was great keeping me in the loop as to what would happen next: interviews, if offer made and accepted, a background check (so don't quit current job) just in case any issues.