Status: 10 Years, B. Tech. from NIT
Position: SDE2 at Microsoft
Location: Hyderabad, India

1. Coding Round 1: Leetcode easy-medium questions, (1 hour)

• Given a Binary Tree having positive and negative nodes, the task is to find the maximum sum level in it.

• Given two strings str1 and str2 and below operations that can performed on str1. Find minimum number of edits (operations) required to convert ‘str1’ into ‘str2’.

  1. Insert
  2. Remove
  3. Replace

  All of the above operations are of equal cost.

2. Coding Round 2: Leetcode easy-medium questions (1 hour)

• Mimum deletion (char removal) in string required to make each frequency (char counts) unique.
• All nodes at distance k from given node in Binary Tree (root).

3. Java and Springboot round (1 hour)

• questions related to spring framework and java.

5. Hiring Manager (1 hour)

• Behavioral questions and work experience.

6. Chief Architect (1 hour)

• Behavioral questions and some trivial coding question like stack memory and etc.

I don't remember about System design round and don't have the record of it.

I liked my discussions with Interviewers, HM and CA. Work culture seems good in the company and the benefits are comparable to best.

Offer
Preparation Strategy:

System Design: Alex Xu's System Design Interview
Leetcode for Coding problems.