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I was asked a question about hashing that required a clever solution that used bit shifting. I think the interviewer may have realized that it was too hard to give candidates a chance to demonstrate their skills.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Aug 13, 2014

I was asked a question about hashing that required a clever solution that used bit shifting. I think the interviewer may have realized that it was too hard to give candidates a chance to demonstrate their skills.

NDA so can't share specifics but you might want to take a look at: Trees (n-ary) Recursion Scalability and Memory Limits Algorithms Data structures Big O If you pick C++ KNOW ALL THE STL DATA STRUCTURES. Know their average and worst case complexity for common operations. Be prepared to optimize or discuss trade offs in your design.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Jun 24, 2016

NDA so can't share specifics but you might want to take a look at: Trees (n-ary) Recursion Scalability and Memory Limits Algorithms Data structures Big O If you pick C++ KNOW ALL THE STL DATA STRUCTURES. Know their average and worst case complexity for common operations. Be prepared to optimize or discuss trade offs in your design.

Basically all interviewers asked a generic question to design some generic system/service with further drilling down into particular details of the design and implementation of certain algorithms. Some examples are: Dijkstra shortest path; working with hashtables, unit testing.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Mar 15, 2017

Basically all interviewers asked a generic question to design some generic system/service with further drilling down into particular details of the design and implementation of certain algorithms. Some examples are: Dijkstra shortest path; working with hashtables, unit testing.

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