Microsoft

I applied through a staffing agency. There were two interviews. - The first one was focused on system design. - The second one was a review of my entire career, with a discussion of the biggest challenges and a lot of technical details.

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

Co-operative interviewers. Be honest about what you know and what you don't. The interviewers will steer the interview towards what you know. I had 4 rounds, but mostly they have 3 only.