I applied through university. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2013
Interview
I gave my resume to a Microsoft recruiter at a presentation at my university. I got an email from another recruiter a week or two later. They said that they'd like me to come in for an on-campus interview, and asked for a quick response so they could schedule it. I responded immediately and gave my availability (which ended up being only one day), and then never heard from them until NOON OF THAT DAY, when they asked if I could come in at 2 PM.
I had given up on the interview by then, but I agreed to come in even though I was unprepared. The interviewer asked me one question about linked lists, but he seemed almost as unprepared for interviewing as me, and the interview lasted only about 20 minutes. By the end of it, we both knew it wasn't going anywhere.
1 Phone Round that was 30 mins where I was asked a mix of technical and behavioral questions.
2 back to back 45 minute interviews each with 1 coding question.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
In the phone interview, they asked me what technologies about Microsoft was exciting.
I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft (San Diego, CA) in Feb 2022
Interview
One 30 min call with behavioral and simple coding question. Second round involves two 45-60 min coding/behavioral interviews, with a 10-15 min break between the two depending on how fast you finish.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Parsing code into a text document
2. Word search in a 2D array of words given a list of words.
1 Online Test
3 Technical Coding Interviews
They also asked about company culture fit questions and had a techno-hr round as the 3rd interview
The online test was fairly simple and heavily proctored and the company focuses on resume too
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Data Structures and Algorithms and also about OS and OOPs