I received interview call from Microsoft (Bangalore) for CRM team, SDE1 position for 1.5 year experience.
Round 1: 1 hour
It was a GD like interview, with multiple people in same room given same question and interviewer was discussing individually with every person.
Given 2 arays if integers, sort the first array based on order of 2nd array.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/sort-array-according-order-defined-another-array/amp/>
I started with brute force approach, then optimized to binary seacrh and then hashmap
Round 2: 1 hour
Same as previous round, one interviewer, multiple candidates same question individual discussion.
If you have a stream of incoming characters, reverse and print the string as soon as input is finished. Write a code for same
Round 3: F2F 1 hour
One-on-one
Flatten a multi-level linked list
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/flatten-a-linked-list-with-next-and-child-pointers/amp/>
Took a while to solve this one.
First I used a stack and then formed an algo without stack an without recursion.
Round 4: F2F 1.5 hour
A printed sheet of a c-program was given, had to find syntactical and logical error in program.
Connect all nodes of a binary tree which are at same level.
You can not store level information
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/connect-nodes-at-same-level/amp/>
<I used a variation of level order traversal>
Round 5: Hiring Manager <1 hour
Detailed discussion on current work, was grilled a lot
Reasons to leave current company
Reasons to join Microsoft
and other such questions
Tips:
Keep thinking loud and discussing your thought process with interviewer. They will keep giving hints for you to reach solution.
Find a solution, any solution, and keep optimizing it.
Hope this helps. 🙂