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One day that in that day there are 3 interviews, half an hour between 2 consecutive interviews, each interview 75 minutes, and from them average of 67 minutes technical questions. 2 from 3 interviews were on system design, and one was problem solving.
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there is an array of size n that represents rooms , just one door is open (at index 0), and each room contains keys to the other rooms, we need to check if there is a way to get into all the other rooms.
I applied online. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Belgrade) in Mar 2024
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3 hour long interviews one after the other. The interviews were all technical with coding and similar but with three different people. The questions were very focused on data structures. You are given a problem/task and have to comment which structure you want to use for it and implement it. Even though the structures were some "simpler" ones like queues and hash maps it included recognizing, commenting and explaining of modifications to them so you can adapt their functionalities like priority queues and linked hash maps.
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There are operations that can be committed to a bank account. Those operations are queued in some way until you use a commit function that performs them. Explain how you would implement this, which structures you would use and then code it
I applied through an employee referral. I interviewed at Microsoft (Tel Aviv)
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The online assessment included 2 LeetCode-style questions of easy to medium difficulty.I then had 3 interviews, each 75 minutes long, mostly focused on technical questions similar to those on LeetCode.
Talked about myself and one project I did.
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what is the difference between abstract class and interface
print all permutations of a string
check if a string is a palindrome if you can delete at most 1 char