Microsoft Senior Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2022
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I talked to the recruiter for about half an hour. We set the date for the first round of online interview in a few weeks. The interview was for a position in Azure Cloud Storage team. The interviewer asked a very tricky question from Cracking the code interview and he was silence for about 30 minutes. No hint, no nothing.
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The interviewer explained the micro-service his team was managing and asked me to share how they could improve their monitoring dashboard and alerts.
4 rounds coding ui system design managerial go through js concepts and easy to medium dsa algo i was asked closures, scopes and event loop managerial round- telemetry, maintainence of production level website
This interview included Telephonic and Online technical interviews. There were a total of 4-5 rounds I think. There were Good interviewers and I had a good experience. I was interviewing for frontend
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Given a JSON object, Normalise it so that it can be traversed in min time.