[coachdarek]

Specifically for big tech companies there wasn't much difference. But then again, most of the companies are American companies so I imagine a lot of the same interview culture was brought with.

Most final round interviews would have 4 rounds with 3 technical and 1 behavioral. The behavioral seems very similar in that you would discuss past experience and how you handled challenging situations, etc etc.

The technical rounds are where I noticed some divergence. In the US, I think there is a stronger focus on doing Leetcode and doing the LC problems quickly (FB asks 2 medium level questions in their interviews).

However for the EU interviews, I've noticed that typically 1-2 of the interviews will be more practical based with debugging, code review, design classes rather than just straight Leetcode. In a 5 round interview you may expect 1 less LC question and 1 more "general coding" for lack of a better term. It almost feels like the EU companies were interviewing like slightly smaller tech companies do in the states and have a slight preference toward practical coding skills.

That being said, there are still 2-3 LC-style interviews so it's a lot of overlap nonetheless.