I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Providence, RI) in Nov 2019
Interview
I was interviewed in person at my university for about an hour. The interviewer asked questions about myself and my background (past jobs and classes) and a few conceptual coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Conceptually describe what a list is (pointers etc)
Stage 1: Take-Home Assessment – A 1-hour coding assignment consisting of two technical questions (one Easy and one Medium).
Stage 2: Virtual Interview Day – A Zoom-based interview day comprising three consecutive interviews.
Star method completely end to end with 3 interviews in the same day. It was online and then we were split into rooms. You mess up one and you mess up all
Maximum subarray questions+ oops + dbms. find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
