I applied through an employee referral. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Zelenograd) in Apr 2013
Interview
2 remote technical interviews (skype, audio only). One with team lead. It was quite difficult, but bearable. Second with SDET 2. It was quite easy.
1 technical interview in office, airplane tickets was paid. Interview was very hard, as for me. 2 hours of continuous questions regarding my technical knowledge and personal qualities.
1 stress interview with technical director. It was the worst one. After that I thought I will never get an offer. I was ready for stress testing, but not in my field of knowledge.
1 formal interview with HR specialist. Pure pleasure.
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