Microsoft came for campus recruitment.

First, they conducted an online coding round on the CoCubes platform (a very bad platform). It consisted of 3 fairly average coding questions.

The interview process was eliminative in nature.

They were planning to take a maximum of 3-4 rounds for each candidate.

There was a huge emphasis on system design and pen-paper coding.

Write code to transfer money from one account to another. What changes would you make to the code if there were a huge volume of transactions to a particular account?

Given a huge, sorted file consisting of only 0's and 1's, how would you find the first occurrence of 1? Write the code.

Design a load balancer and write the basic code for it.

Implement the K-means algorithm. Design the classes. The algorithm was mentioned, and the interviewer asked for the code.