Microsoft

It was a very smooth process. It helps to work as a contractor or vendor for a team in which you are interested before going full-time to access the team.

Fairly straightforward - like any other company. A phone screen - followed by 5 rounds on site. Questions were of the following nature: design a cache subsystem, spiral order printing of a matrix, regex implementation for * and ?, binary tree rotatio

A full-day process, broken into multiple individual one-on-one interviews. These interviews can include time at the blackboard, writing snippets of code or scripting. Not for the faint of heart or the unprepared.