Microsoft

The interview took the whole day. Five individuals interrogated for one hour each, plus the hiring manager at the end.

I applied via the employee referral process. After a phone call with the Dev Lead, I managed to fly to Redmond. It was a three-round interview loop in one day, and on the second day, I received an offer.

The interview was mostly centered around designing a system, algorithms, and also some puzzles. The interview was not too difficult for me. One of the puzzles was the "aha" type that I could not solve without hints from the interviewer. I would sa