Microsoft

A recruiter contacts you and makes an initial approach to very quickly assess your level of knowledge and proficiency in English. Afterwards, they organize a series of technical interviews.

Usual, rather simple programming questions, pretty standard and found in every book. Nothing to add, as learning data structures and how to apply them to a variety of issues, computer architecture, OS-specific things, and some networking would help.

I went through a phone screen which consisted of LC medium and LC hard problems. The next step was the interview. The first interviewer asked 4-5 LC questions in quick succession, ranging from medium to hard. For some, I had to write the code; for ot