Senior Developer applicants have rated the interview process at Microsoft with 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 100% positive. To compare, the company-average is 67.6% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Here are the most commonly searched roles for interview reports -
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
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)