Interviewing with Microsoft ( sde, sdet )

In this post, i write about the interviewing with microsoft. i write this post in english because of internets search results :)
The adventure starts with the sending a resume to hr. Resume should be good enough for passing to next stage. it should clearly identify your skills.
If hr likes your resume, then an email message arrives to your mail box, you feel excited at this stage:) mail tells you, you have a phone call with hr about two days and also they give you to exact date.
You wait until they call you. on the phone, Hr asks you some questions. These are genereally the basic questions for testing your knowledge. You should think a bit then answer the questions. a few questions which they asked to me:
1) how can you define a character pointer named foo
my answer: char * foo; // :))))
2) How can you describe best code
my answer: i dont describe security, easy to read etc. i simply say it should be well documented. because i thought other topics are discussed so much in every where and generally all people knows that a code must be secure or maintanable...


i was asked about 10 questions in the phone, and after 1 week, there was another mail in my inbox:) they said they came to Turkiye and wanted to interview with me face to face. They then sent lots of mail messages for giving info. and sources. i studied lot of things like OS's kernels, low level c , software testing methods etc...
In the interview day, i was a little excited but i pretended to be relax:) i was meeting with 5 people who are testers, developers and hr. it continued about 4.5 hours. they asked me lots of questions. they dont ask only about coding, but also about design. for instances i was asked for designing structures.
code questions are about data structres and algorithms. converting a hexa to decimal, designing a data structures etc.

After a long day, i felt tired and went back to my home, then we were waiting again until they told us the results of interview.
It was a nice day for me, different experience. Also maybe you wonder my result:) i accepted to SDE in USA! now i am waiting the next stages, offer letters another exciting phone call etc..