The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Jan 2011
Interview
I got first screen scheduled on campus, it has few questions like how do u test calulator, write code to test "+" , when u have only 2 days to test something and u made a new fix, what steps u take to ensure completeness?
Next round was an onsite , u will meet with recruiter on the day of interview, she will handle you the schedule for the day.
Interview questions [5]
Question 1
1st round:
write integertoasciiconversion(char *s , int n) , here the discussion on who would allocate memory pointed by s , if its the user what wuld be the adv ?
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Sep 2009
Interview
A lot of questions based off of algorithms.
One piece of advice to all the those who want to be working at Microsoft. Please practice programming everyday. It is very easy to assume that you know it and when the interview day comes, you may end up confusing yourself. Please treat programming languages as a tool to implement a functionality and not as the most important thing. The concept is what is important. If you know the concepts and understand the problem, you will be able to use any programming language.
The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Mar 2009
Interview
I was a contractor and my manager offered me to try for a full time position. It went well up to the last guy, the one who was going to make The Decision. The guy was in his 50s and one of the very early MS employees. For some reason he just didn't like me much and his behavior throughout the interview was very rude and arrogant. It blew me away how he took his socks off and started picking dirt between his toes while I was answering questions. Needless to say, I didn't like it much and I guess it ended the "Microsoft experience" for me. All other interviewers were nice and willing to cooperate (i.e. no grilling tactics). After two weeks of "deciding" they finally told me that they are not going to offer me a position. But since I stayed as a contractor my manager actually told me (off the record) that the Big Boss indeed didn't like me from the moment I walked in.
Questions weren't exactly too challenging, in a normal range of a SDET.
Interview questions [3]
Question 1
Write a function that determines whether a given number is a prime. Discuss perf improvements.