The process started off with my campus recruiter re-sending an email about a potential phone interview. Turns out the first email was sent straight to spam (bad Google! Folks, check your spam folder every now and then). I replied, and she set up a phone interview for me a few weeks later. Phone interview: Morning phone call with some pretty standard questions. The msft employee was fairly nice and wanted me to code the questions (can't remember but I'd guess they were string searches and character counting programs) and send them to his microsoft.com email address. A few days later I got an email from my campus recruiter saying I did well, and she'd like to know some teams that I might be interested in interviewing with. Redmond: On the morning of the interview I met with my recruiter at the recruiting building 111 where she handed me details of my first interview and what team I was interviewing for. What followed was the standard microsoft interview loop (meet with a person, interview for an hour, then be asked to wait in the coffee lounge while the interviewer goes to talk to the next person). After meeting three people, I was asked to meet their manager, and after that, his manager! A few days later I got an email saying that they would like to move ahead with an offer!