I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Boston, MA) in Jan 2017
Interview
The interview process was really nice and easy. They try to make it easy for the you to the point where all you have to worry about is the interview and succeeding. they do help accommodate you if needed, in case you're interview is in person (flights, hotel, transportation, meal, etc.)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Write a function to solve an anagram without using classes like StringBuilder etc.
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.