I applied online. The process took 2 months. I interviewed at Microsoft in Jan 2013
Interview
It was a phone screening interview for the BI solution developer position. It was arranged almost 2 months after I submitted my CV. I was interviewed by two developers on the phone. The sound quality was terrible and the was a lot of echoes and noises so I could hardly recognize the words and so was very difficult to understand the questions. The whole interview took about 1 hour. I was asked about 10 questions - some from theoretical areas, some was practical (i.e. to solve a task by writing a query).
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How to create a dynamic OLAP cube security model (when you have thousands of users and you can't use Roles to define database security)
Online interview round.
There would be 4 interview rounds total. Each one evaluate various skills about you. They will give you hints as well at time required, you need to capture those and rethink on your solution.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design worker thread library where each task will be executed in parallel. Design a system to handle a huge workload.
HR screening, one technical interview with the hiring manager then three interview loop which covered two system design and one dsa round.
System design was intensive and challenging.
It took them 5 weeks to come back with an offer. Background check was completed in a week, got joining date after 3 days.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Design a system for a startup company that let users post various types of content and get a unique url which can be shared with others to access the content