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Phone Interview: Fibonacci series(Time complexity), test cases for the function Onsite interview: 4 rounds on interviews with various teams.(Each team asked one technical interview and then questions to explain previous projects, purpose of projects, why I decided to take the approach I did ) Round 1: String Manipulation(Code+test cases) Round 2: String Manipulation(Code+how to handle big volume of files) Round 3: Lunch Interview about System Design(queuing techniques for games) Round 4: Core Java concepts: what is oops, explain its properties, data structure you are confident in and 1 technical question based on that, create a queue using stacks
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Apr 14, 2019

Phone Interview: Fibonacci series(Time complexity), test cases for the function Onsite interview: 4 rounds on interviews with various teams.(Each team asked one technical interview and then questions to explain previous projects, purpose of projects, why I decided to take the approach I did ) Round 1: String Manipulation(Code+test cases) Round 2: String Manipulation(Code+how to handle big volume of files) Round 3: Lunch Interview about System Design(queuing techniques for games) Round 4: Core Java concepts: what is oops, explain its properties, data structure you are confident in and 1 technical question based on that, create a queue using stacks

Create a new list with the sum of the two given lists, then a power of x^y question, find the sum of the longest substring, 2D array matrix question (rotate 90 degrees), the last one was related to creating a class for two points and t ( linear equation). Was not expecting that one.
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Dec 1, 2021

Create a new list with the sum of the two given lists, then a power of x^y question, find the sum of the longest substring, 2D array matrix question (rotate 90 degrees), the last one was related to creating a class for two points and t ( linear equation). Was not expecting that one.

Tech Phone Screen: What's the difference between a thread and a process Describe a Microsoft product you like / how you would make it better Explain recursion to a child Why Microsoft -- Final Rounds: 2 OOD questions 1 string compression Matrix Heap Exercise
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Software Engineer New Grad

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Dec 28, 2021

Tech Phone Screen: What's the difference between a thread and a process Describe a Microsoft product you like / how you would make it better Explain recursion to a child Why Microsoft -- Final Rounds: 2 OOD questions 1 string compression Matrix Heap Exercise

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