I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Ames, IA) in Oct 2012
Interview
In my case, I got an invitation email to an interview on campus. Recruiter asked basic questions about yourself and go to the technical question right away.
REMEMBER, during the interview they consider you into all three positions, Software Developer, Software Developer in Test, and Program Manager.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How do you do anagrams in Java without using the Math class function?
3 rounds of leetcode medium, 2 questions were very easy, the last one was really hard (it was a binary tree question). They asked about space and time complexity. In terms of structures it was straight forward but the question itself was hard
Behavioural round consisted of "Tell me about yourself and why you wanna work for microsoft and resume screening. And technical interview consisted of 2 LC question 1 medium and 1 easy.
straightforward. directly jumped into data structure and algorithm and then a few fundamental computer science questions especially database management system and operating system then 2 or 3 questions related to resume.