Microsoft

The interview consists of 5 rounds. The first round is easy. The following three rounds increase in difficulty. If you are lucky, you may encounter a "hard mode" (HM) round. Sometimes, depending on the team, there might be 6 rounds.

I was contacted by an external recruiter via LinkedIn. The job seemed interesting, with their game studio. Supposedly they're working on some kind of super-secret project over there that not even a signed NDA can loosen their lips about. But they re

Normal phone screening first, followed by the full interview loop. Three rounds were completed: * The first two interviews focused on algorithms, specifically linked lists and binary search trees. * The third interview was a design question.