I was contacted by a Skype recruiter via Skype shortly after applying and we had a quick chat about what I wanted, rough salary expectations and where I wanted to work. He told me about current "leads" and tried to make me a bit excited about the process and Skype. After a few weeks they managed to arrange my first interview, over Skype. Chatted for 1 hr with a guy in a similar position (although with an impressive amount of experience). He was friendly and very interested in my previous work/research. The interview was technical with many hypothetical questions. I was informed the next day that the interview had gone well (via Skype again) and that they would contact me to arrange a second interview. Next day I was contacted again and we set up an interview later that day (2 days after first interview). This interview was with me, to be, manager. The interview was slightly more aggressive and the interviewer remarked on some of my short comings and lack of (complete lack of) experience as a PM. There were some hypothetical questions as well but it was still predominantly technical stuff. He informed me, at the end of the interview, that they would bring me in (to Stockholm) for additional interviews, but that my lack of PM experience was an "issue". 2 weeks later I was in Stockholm for what Microsoft seems to call "the loop". They paid my flights, food and hotel. A positive experience. The interview day started at 10am and ended at 4 pm. 6 hours with 6 different people. Non of which I had ever talked to before. The interviews were similar in nature to the Skype interviews. People were relaxed and seemed genuinely interested in me as a person. There were many hypotheticals, most of which were designed to showcase my technical imagination and how to handle looming deadlines. One interviewer asked me to whiteboard some diagrams of communication systems, but didn't seem to be too concerned about my lack of experience with the details. The last interviewer (which seemed to be the big boss) indicated that his job in the process was to make me "excited about the job". He said that he felt that I was already there so we proceeded to discuss Microsoft strategy. I think all the interviewers appreciated an understanding of Skype's and Microsoft's position in the market and their future. Overall the interview experience was friendly, relaxed and beyond everything else, personal. I felt they viewed me as more than a collection of abbreviations on my CV and they were looking for potential rather than experience. My contact with my personal recruiters have been amazing.

courteous, detailed, relevant to the active media projects the company is undertaking including hardware acceleration and scalability to the cloud, distributed systems, &awareness of open source projects, bottlenecks and system hiccups involved with streaming media on mobile devices...