Microsoft Software Engineer interview experience

I had four rounds total: two coding rounds plus one low-level design and one high-level design. I felt like most of the interviewers were aligned with my thinking, and I was generally able to execute through the problems without major surprises.

The low-level design round was the moment that threw me off. I was asked to implement a game that I hadn’t come across before. The interviewer walked me through what the game was and essentially asked me to look it up, then implement it. I managed to produce working code, but the timing was tight. For the first part of the session, the interviewer