Had an initial phone round after I submitted my resume at the career fair. There were just two questions:

i) Setup and hold time conditions ii) Two ways to convert a NAND to a NOT gate

I received an email a week later stating that they would fly me out to Mountain View. I had four 1-on-1 interviews with the architecture team, system verification team, silicon development team, and the manager of Xbox hardware development.

• Architecture: I was asked to write Verilog code for a 12x8 RAM with synchronous reset and write enable (I did well).
• System Verification: VLIW implementation of a data-dependent ADD-MULTIPLY operation (I screwed up).
• Silicon Development: Clock gating, charge sharing, setup and hold time, sleep transistor design (I did well).
• Manager: We talked about my internship, my skills, and why I would like to join Microsoft.

Ask them as many questions as possible. I talked to them a lot about how each business unit plays a role in Xbox and what their key drivers are. I quizzed them on Microsoft as a major player in hardware and consumer electronics and their recent move to release Windows 8 on several SoC vendor chips.

Good luck!

Low Power Design. VLIW. Verilog.