Microsoft

I applied through a recruiter. It was much easier than I expected. It started off with a technical HackerRank screening of two medium and one hard LeetCode problems. - 1st Round: System Design and LLD of something like a sports scoreboard (30 mins)

Conducted interviews and problem-solving sessions with four individuals. The problems ranged from basic to intermediate in difficulty. Ample time was given to solve each problem, approximately one hour per problem. A complimentary lunch was provided.

The phone screen was conducted for the teams, featuring easy data structures questions and a scenario based on what data structures to use when. I also got a scenario of designing a hashing algorithm for partitioning purposes, which talks about diffe