Microsoft Sr Software Engineer interview questions
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I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Jul 2023
Interview
Two technical rounds followed by an HR round. First round is more of testing the knowledge in the version and releases of different framework. Second round is more about design patterns and simple computational knowledge check.
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Most of the questions are about the different version of framework and differences between them. Which is the important feature released in certain versions.
Overall process was smooth. Mostly leet code medium and hard questions have been asked. All the questions were from its leet code earlier asked questions. Interview process was smooth and quick.
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Traveling salesmen problem and buy and sell stocks problem
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Jun 2022
Interview
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.