Microsoft

Met individually for 30 minutes with 4 people. They asked a series of problem-solving and coding exercises. There was very little "tell me about your experience" or "why would you be a good fit" discussion.

Typical FAANG interview. 4 parts, each with 1 technical question and 1 behavioral question. 1 system design question, 3 coding questions that target different things: * Requirement definition * Trade-offs in solution * A problem where the challenge

The coding interview was easy, but the system design interview was difficult and requires detailed knowledge of cloud and distributed systems. For the coding interview, they asked about cherry pickup in both directions and how to find the optimal nu