Microsoft

The interview process was relatively smooth. Most of the calls were very interactive, as you would expect. The process started with a meeting with the recruiter. This was followed by four other stages, two of which involved some live coding.

There are 3 rounds in Microsoft: 1. Online Assessment (contains 2 problems: one hard and one medium, based over graph and dynamic programming). 2. Machine Coding Round. 3. System Design.

The interview included meeting with 4 different engineers. I was asked system design questions, coding problems, and algorithm design questions, for about 1 hour each. After all the interviews, on the same day before I left, the recruiter told me th