J'ai postulé via un établissement d'enseignement supérieur ou universitaire. Le processus a pris 1 jour. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Redmond, WA) en déc. 2011
Entretien
After the on-campus interviews, I was selected to take part in an on-campus interview. They flew me out to Redmond and provided hotel and food costs. There were a couple dozen other people interviewing that day at the same time, though best I could tell everyone was interviewing with different groups within Microsoft. I interview with the Office group.
As the position was a Program Manager, I got asked mainly design-related questions. I interviewed with four people: three managers and one PM. Whiteboards were provided to show my thought processes and work; the interviewers were more interested in hearing me work through the problem than if I reached the "right" solution, though I'm sure that's still important. Each interview was about an hour long, and there was a little downtime between them.
I had issues (apparently) with seeing the big picture when designing a solution and had a tendency to get hung up on details that are unimportant during design.
I was not offered a position at the end of it, though the experience was overall very positive. The whole process took about 6 hours, and was mentally exhausting.
Some of the questions I was asked:
1. Design a tablet app I would use in the kitchen.
2. Describe the most complicated technical problem you've faced.
3. Pick a piece of software with a UI problem, and how you would solve it.
4. Describe in as much detail as possible what happens between when a user submits a URL to a web browser and that page is displayed.
5. Design a GPS system for 16 year olds.
Three rounds of interview starting with phone screening, middle round of online interview and final round of three interviews all schedule within a couple weeks time. Interviews were Microsoft recruiters followed by employees
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
If your boss asked you to build a coffee machine in a car, how would you approach it?
J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft (Bellevue, WA)
Entretien
Standard behavioral set of questions, walked them through past projects I've worked out and answered some case-like product question, like what is your favorite product / non technical product, etc.
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Microsoft
Entretien
Apply the summer intern programme through official website. 2 rounds of interviews in total. Give general idea of what is a good PM and talk about the latest project. Deal with a small case.