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.
1. Phone interview
2. Asked to schedule the final interview within a week. Depends on the time frame within which they want to have the position filled.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Designing a system for a tennis tournament. How to represent players, winners and losers at each stage, how to represent a game between two players. After everything was done they asked me how to create a parallel tournament for all the players who lost in each level and have a winner and loser seleced in the finals for them