Microsoft

Very neat university hiring. The process started with a university round, then an on-site round. The entire process took about 8 weeks. Keep your LinkedIn profile updated; recruiters search for candidates with a good profile.

This was a telephonic interview. I was not asked anything related to the technologies I had applied for (C#, SQL, XAML). Instead, the questions were very generic, focusing on data structures and algorithms.

Applied through university. Had a talk with Microsoft people at a career fair. Got a 30-minute campus interview in two weeks. Had a question on how to flip a specific bit in a 2D bitmap. Got an invitation to Redmond, WA. Had four interviews: two desi