Status: MS CS from Tier 3 school, Passed out during May, 2020
1.5 Years of Experience as a Software Engineer
Position: SWE at Microsoft
Location: Redmond, WA
Date: March 30th, 2021
Recruiter Screening on 25th of February, 2021
Questions asked include -
- What're you passionate about technology ?
- Why Microsoft ?
- What's your favourite product in Microsoft and why ?
- Explain recurion to a 5 year old in 90 seconds.
- What are your two most favorite programming languages and difference between the two.
- What is a thread and a process ?
- Difference between a thread and the process.
- 3 bulb puzzle problem
- Behavioral Questions
Got selected for Virtual On-site and couldn't take up the virtual on-site for an hiring event on 11th of March and hence opted an interview with a team on 30th of March, 2021.
Practiced all the questions under Microsoft in Leetcode Explore and went through the logic of a lot of questions tagged under Microsoft in Leetcode. Not sure of the count.
Virtual-On site on 30th, March 2021
I was asked to dedicate the whole day for the interview.
The interview was through Codility.
Round 1 :
- What is a BST
- How will you implement it ?
- Given an ArrayList of numbers, sort the ArrayList and implement it as a Binary Search Tree.
- Given an set of inputs and a regex condition, I was expected to tell the interviewer if the given input was possible with the specified regex condition.
Round 2 :
- Behavioral Questions on my work experience for 35 minutes
- https://leetcode.com/problems/regular-expression-matching/
Round 3 :
Round 4 :
- Tell me about yourself - first 10 to 15 minutes.
- https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-palindromic-substring/
Did the interview quite well except for Round two! Probably didn't get an optimal solution for REGEX.
Not sure as to why I was rejected. The recruiter said that he can't share specific feedback about the interview.
The team I was interviewed for worked on Data Analysis and they develop tools for Azure Platform I believe.