I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2010
Interview
Standard interview process, 4-5 interviews. last interview is with a decision maker called AA.
He incorporates feedback from all interviewers and makes a final call. Interviewers are usually friendly and make you comfortable. Some try to prove you wrong no matter what you say or do. Prepare well - if you are prepared and havea good resume - no reason to not be hired.
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