I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 3 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Sep 2008
Interview
The hiring process is fine. Only glitch is that my interviews were all scheduled for weekends. They typically have 5 rounds of interviews. There is a preliminary round. If you cross that, there will be three more rounds of technical interview and after that you might have one more round where you'll be interviewed by someone high up (In my case it was a director).
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
Assume a text console where somebody is typing input. Whenever the person hits enter, we should display the string that he has entered. The string can be very very long and the program that takes the input and displays should be as fast as possible. Write such a C program
Hacker Rank test and 3 Rounds of coding plus experience based interview.
Position was for QA who should have Storage and Networking knowledge. So basic questions on storage and networking.
I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Feb 2020
Interview
Full day process broken into multiple individual one on one interviews which can include time at the blackboard writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Can you write a script to reverse the contents of an array?
I applied through college or university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Sídney) in Mar 2015
Interview
Applied through a university recruiter, and got to do an on-campus interview. The question was very easy (add an item to a sorted linked list) and I got to fly to Sydney for the next round. The second round consisted of 4 individual interviews with different people, with a range of difficulty for their interview questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Draw the system architecture of one of your projects