Microsoft

It was brutal: 10 hours of detailed programming questions, alternating with going to the whiteboard. Lots of C++ code, chock full of errors. Some were obvious; others were subtle.

Phone interview with recruiter: * High-level overview * Coding assignment to be submitted with application (write a linked list class with tests, show how to get the 5th from the last item of a singly linked list in one iteration). Full-day intervi

There were a total of 3 interviews, as I am an internal candidate. The first two interviews focused on data structures, and the third was about design. This totaled 3 hours. The data structure questions were related to graph theory and dynamic pro