Microsoft

I applied through an employee referral. The process took four weeks. There were a total of five rounds: HackerRank, followed by two DSA rounds, LLD, and HLD. For the coding rounds, the difficulty was LeetCode medium, and the LLD and HLD rounds were

Comfort zone: Description of what you work on. Problem-solving problems (e.g., merge linked list, implement LRU cache). Left 5 minutes for open questions and high-level discussion on the product and role.

Two technical interviews. First with a team member, second with the hiring manager. The technical interview will involve devising a system architecture for a firewall product and then implementing some of its features in pseudo-code.