I applied through a staffing agency. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Sept 2011
Interview
1/2 hour with one interviewer and 1/2 hour with the other which turned into 1 hour. Hiring manager was out of town so didn't get to interview with her.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) How do you test a paper cup? Then I was presented with a networked client software with an error dialog with user logged in as a standard users without administrator privileges and I was asked it was a bug.
2) How do you test a parking meter? Then I was asked a coding question on how to write a nested loop function to manipulate two arrays set of numbers