Microsoft Developer interview questions

I submitted a resume while at the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference. A recruiter emailed me shortly after, followed by a brief, fairly straightforward phone interview. This was followed by an invitation to fly out to Redmond for a day of in-person interviews. (Note to other applicants: that particular email was misclassified as spam by my email provider! The words “Microsoft,” “job,” and all of the all-caps text related to flight details was enough to set off the spam filter.) The day of interviews was long, but surprisingly fun. I was interviewed by members from a few different teams, so the day didn’t drag – there was always something new to talk about.

Was asked a series of behavioral questions by a first interviewer followed by another interview with another with a question about designing a tic tac toe game. Explained what type of data structure should be used and the methodology in solving it, while comparing the performance of the solution.