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Technical interview: >> How would you count the number of 1's in an integer. The question was not as simple as this. Lot of follow-up questions on how I would test this function, edge cases, different types of binary representations etc. On site questions: >> Linked list - reverse ONLY from nodes begin to end (begin, end) will be integer values >> Next right pointers. Did it with both single queue and with two queues q1 and q2 and swapping them. Follow up - how do you cut down on memory. >> All positive integers on left, negative on the other side - follow up was to modify it to a templated function >> Given a string "Hello World", split all words. This was a programming session on the interviewer's computer (not whiteboard). There will be ONLY space as delimiter. If a service can be called up to max of 5 times, how do you make sure it is handled. I answered "sempahores".
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Software Engineer II

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Jun 11, 2019

Technical interview: >> How would you count the number of 1's in an integer. The question was not as simple as this. Lot of follow-up questions on how I would test this function, edge cases, different types of binary representations etc. On site questions: >> Linked list - reverse ONLY from nodes begin to end (begin, end) will be integer values >> Next right pointers. Did it with both single queue and with two queues q1 and q2 and swapping them. Follow up - how do you cut down on memory. >> All positive integers on left, negative on the other side - follow up was to modify it to a templated function >> Given a string "Hello World", split all words. This was a programming session on the interviewer's computer (not whiteboard). There will be ONLY space as delimiter. If a service can be called up to max of 5 times, how do you make sure it is handled. I answered "sempahores".

Round 1: 2 interviewers in the panel, one was asking questions other was making notes on his laptop Asked about my past projects, as soon as I mentioned “NoSQL/Cassandra” he asked: • What’s NoSQL? • Why you chose it over RDBMS? • What can NoSQL achieve that RDBMS can not? • Write code to find max sum subarray in a given array. • Given a sorted array of integers with size n, find if there exists a number that is repeated at least n/4 times, n is length of array. Time complexity should be less than O(n). Explain approach and write code. Initially I was asked to code in any language but later they kept me from writing scala code and ask me to write in other language, I wrote in Java. Round 2: A senior guy from PowerPoint mobile app team interviewed me. • Given a circular LinkedList which is sorted, Given a node of this LL and an integer, WAP to insert the item in the LL so that the LL remains sorted after insertion, handle all edge cases. • One more question that I forgot. Round 3: A lady (very senior) from Excel online team interviewed me. • Same questions about NoSQL as in round 1. • Given a list of train schedules (arrival and departure time), find the minimum number of platforms required to run the trains. Write a program. • Design a phone book. Follow up: how do you store and retrieve data in Trie data structure? Lunch Break! Round 4 (HM round): Very senior guy working on a instant messenger product. • How have your other rounds been? • Asked about my past projects, as I mentioned “NoSQL/Cassandra” he asked the same questions as in round 1. • OO design of an elevator. Write interfaces and implementation and logic. Some questions on testing. • Why you want to leave your current job? • Why Microsoft? • He told me about how they decide which team to deploy a new joiner in?
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Software Development Engineer-II

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
May 20, 2019

Round 1: 2 interviewers in the panel, one was asking questions other was making notes on his laptop Asked about my past projects, as soon as I mentioned “NoSQL/Cassandra” he asked: • What’s NoSQL? • Why you chose it over RDBMS? • What can NoSQL achieve that RDBMS can not? • Write code to find max sum subarray in a given array. • Given a sorted array of integers with size n, find if there exists a number that is repeated at least n/4 times, n is length of array. Time complexity should be less than O(n). Explain approach and write code. Initially I was asked to code in any language but later they kept me from writing scala code and ask me to write in other language, I wrote in Java. Round 2: A senior guy from PowerPoint mobile app team interviewed me. • Given a circular LinkedList which is sorted, Given a node of this LL and an integer, WAP to insert the item in the LL so that the LL remains sorted after insertion, handle all edge cases. • One more question that I forgot. Round 3: A lady (very senior) from Excel online team interviewed me. • Same questions about NoSQL as in round 1. • Given a list of train schedules (arrival and departure time), find the minimum number of platforms required to run the trains. Write a program. • Design a phone book. Follow up: how do you store and retrieve data in Trie data structure? Lunch Break! Round 4 (HM round): Very senior guy working on a instant messenger product. • How have your other rounds been? • Asked about my past projects, as I mentioned “NoSQL/Cassandra” he asked the same questions as in round 1. • OO design of an elevator. Write interfaces and implementation and logic. Some questions on testing. • Why you want to leave your current job? • Why Microsoft? • He told me about how they decide which team to deploy a new joiner in?

1. reverse a sentence 2. a variation of sorting of k-sorted arrays. 3. prefix trees, search, ranking. 4. puzzle...on probability. there is a village where couples keep having boys until they have a girl child. I was asked to find boys : girls children ration in that village. 5. In a windowing system, given window size of m * n pixels and a set of different size rectangles...how to find shortest area rectangle for a mouse click. (it's algorithmic + design problem) Design round ----------------- 1. there is a company who has everything in OS X. They have a file server. Microsoft wants to offer them Windows NT servers for this. How can microsoft do the needful without affecting users. - Before jumping to solution, I would suggest to ask as many questions to understand what actually needed to do. The problem looks like microsoft has to implement the back-end server but exact amount of work depends on existing tech choices + design. We should be able to reuse a lot of existing implementation. 2. Cortana wants to display reminders for users. The overall architecture. -Ask as many questions as you can and understand the problem.
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Software Development Engineer-II

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Apr 5, 2018

1. reverse a sentence 2. a variation of sorting of k-sorted arrays. 3. prefix trees, search, ranking. 4. puzzle...on probability. there is a village where couples keep having boys until they have a girl child. I was asked to find boys : girls children ration in that village. 5. In a windowing system, given window size of m * n pixels and a set of different size rectangles...how to find shortest area rectangle for a mouse click. (it's algorithmic + design problem) Design round ----------------- 1. there is a company who has everything in OS X. They have a file server. Microsoft wants to offer them Windows NT servers for this. How can microsoft do the needful without affecting users. - Before jumping to solution, I would suggest to ask as many questions to understand what actually needed to do. The problem looks like microsoft has to implement the back-end server but exact amount of work depends on existing tech choices + design. We should be able to reuse a lot of existing implementation. 2. Cortana wants to display reminders for users. The overall architecture. -Ask as many questions as you can and understand the problem.

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