Microsoft

A fairly straightforward process. It involved one technical phone interview followed by an onsite interview comprising six rounds. The interviews consisted mostly of typical coding questions and distributed systems design questions.

Standard intro to CS material, algorithms analysis, and rough systems design. A lot of interview questions will test your CS fundamentals for intro-level jobs. There's nothing about big system design or architecture except in rare cases. Know your

Met with a manager to start things off. Then, I got to know the team I'd be working with. It's not a bad group of people, but they weren't overly friendly. They seemed a little tired, as if they were working too hard.