I got the interview through a recruiter who contacted me on LinkedIn.
My first interview was a 1-hour Skype call. The first 20 minutes involved general questions about my CV, followed by 40 minutes for three coding exercises.
After this, I had an on-site interview. This consisted of three separate interviews, each lasting almost an hour, conducted in the interviewers' offices. All of these focused on programming on a whiteboard and were very different from each other.
At the beginning, the usual ones:
A lot of abstract questions about the fundamentals (sorting, etc.) and some very tricky ones about how to design efficient algorithms to enumerate some special type of linked lists.
The following metrics were computed from 83 interview experiences for the Microsoft Software Development Engineer role in Seattle, Washington.
Microsoft's interview process for their Software Development Engineer roles in Seattle, Washington is very selective, failing most engineers who go through it.
Candidates reported having very good feelings for Microsoft's Software Development Engineer interview process in Seattle, Washington.