I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Lisboa, Lisboa)
Interview
We talked about my experience in college and the challenges. They also asked about the biggest challenge I've had in my life and how I handled it. The interview was on Microsoft Teams, and with just one interviewer.
I applied through college or university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Gurgaon, Haryana) in Aug 2023
Interview
Round 1(Technical Interview): This round went about for nearly 45 minutes and it was quite smooth. The interviewer was quite friendly and asked me one coding question and told me to explain my approach. The question was Maximum Sum Paths and I explained a brute force solution first and we had a 30-minute discussion about other approaches. Finally, he gave me a hint and told me to code my approach. Round 2(Technical Interview): The next round went on for about 1 hour and was again, mostly a coding round. The interviewer asked me 3 questions and I had to present my screen and run the programs for him. Round 3(Technical + HR): The interviewer asked for a small introduction and then started with my resume and asked me how much I know about current trends in the technical market.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The questions were quite easy but one couldn’t resubmit their answers after the first submission, so we had to check out all corner cases before submitting. 2 frogs can start on any index in the given input array. The function should return the maximum possible distance these frogs can create between them (difference between the index values of both) by having them jump farther away from each other. Frogs can only jump on higher-valued elements or some of the same height and they can not skip any elements. The full question in detail is given here. A string consisting of characters ‘a’ and ‘b’ can be broken down into blocks of similar consecutive letters. Determine the minimum number of characters to be added to make all blocks of equal length.
I applied through college or university. The process took 5 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Chicago, IL) in Aug 2020
Interview
I had both the behavioral and technical interview. The behavioral interview was mostly going through my resume and talking about my past experiences. Then the technical was solving coding questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
How my past experience was like as listed in the resume