Microsoft Sr Software Engineer interview questions
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It's an internal transfer. People in the targeting team are nice. I was not preparing much since it's the first interview I have had after working for a long time.
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Basic interface functions of the radio is provided. Find the 6 best signaled radio channel frequencies.
Reverse word, reverse words in string (e.g. abcde->edcba, foo bar=>rab oof)
Find common ancestor from binary tree and non binary tree
Find median from 2 unsorted arrays
Implement Queue using circular array
I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Dec 2011
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he asked about the projects that I've done in the past. (very detailed)
and there's a simple delete duplicate in array coding quesiton
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best strategy to take out the duplicate elements in an array