I dropped off my resume at a Microsoft recruiting event on my university campus. I was called in for a quick 30-minute on-campus interview that included both behavioral and technical elements. A few weeks later, I flew out to Seattle and became part of a very large recruiting machine. There were two main interview rounds: morning and afternoon. Each applicant was placed into one or the other and got 3-4 in-person one-on-one interviews, at 45 minutes each.

Food was provided on-site (lunch in the cafeteria, and snacks in the recruiting waiting room). All four of my on-site interviews were technical. Many interviewers asked me how I deal with difficult people when working in groups – I guess that's pretty important at Microsoft

You get taxi vouchers and a small sightseeing allocation, which is nice. Microsoft pays for two nights of hotel stays and distributes its candidates across a large number of nearby hotels for some reason.

Strings, arrays & matrices, trees.

When working in a group, how do you deal with difficult team members?