I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2010
Interview
Nice interviewer but not very talkative. He was in higher management. He was looking for certain answers to the design questions that he wanted. Seemed to really enjoy his job and the company culture. On campus interview. Scheduled interview through email. Very responsive and efficient. Went into great detail about job responsibilities.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Broad design questions: If you had to design a phone app for an amusement park, what would it be, what would it do, and how would it do it?
I applied through an employee referral. The process took 3 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2011
Interview
I was contacted by MS recruiter in Jun or Jul and he asked me to wait until PM positions opened for interviews. Thereafter he contacted me again in August for a telephonic interview that went on for about 45 min to an hour. The interview was great and he told me to wait till he can arrange for an onsite interview. In Sep first week I went to Seattle for the final round. I had 3 interviews - the first one was about my resume and the work I had done and about a design question and a guesstimate question. This round was good. The second round was about domain expertise and more design ques, I was being interviewed for online division and this round was okish, it could have been better but still was alright. The third round was about the product and behavioural round . This round was good. I was fairly optimistic, however when I didn't get called for a 4th round I started to be unsure if I will make it. However the overall interview process was good and MS provides some good boarding and lodging arrangements.
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Feb 2009
Interview
There were two rounds of interview as a college grad. Round 1 was a 30 minute on campus interview. Round 2 was flying out to Microsoft headquarters for a full day of interviews. The full day was back to back interviews -- I met with probably 5 people, each in a 1:1 situation. Program Manager interviews are divided into 3 sections: 1) design 2) behavioral 3) problem-solving. Each interview was composed of all 3 sections.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
You are at the southwest corner of a city. The city streets are laid out in a simple grid fashion, with 8 streets running north-south and 8 running east-west. If you can only travel northward and eastward, how many different routes can you take to arrive at the northeast corner of the city?