I applied through college or university. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Chapel Hill, NC) in Oct 2017
Interview
Interview started a bit late. Walked into the room and began chatting with the interviewer. Seemed like a nice guy. We talked for a bit about my background, with questions asked about several items listed on my Resume. Then we moved on to 'technical' questions. The interview process was enjoyable and the questions were reasonable. Don't know if an offer will be given yet or not.
Interview questions [2]
Question 1
How would you efficiently store a tic-tac-toe board in memory?
Stage 1: Take-Home Assessment – A 1-hour coding assignment consisting of two technical questions (one Easy and one Medium).
Stage 2: Virtual Interview Day – A Zoom-based interview day comprising three consecutive interviews.
Star method completely end to end with 3 interviews in the same day. It was online and then we were split into rooms. You mess up one and you mess up all
Maximum subarray questions+ oops + dbms. find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
find the contiguous (connected) sequence of numbers within a 1D array that has the largest possible sum, a classic computer science problem solvable efficiently with Kadane's Algorithm (Dynamic Programming/Greedy) in O(N) time, handling positive, negative numbers, and returning just the sum. Variations exist, like finding the maximum product or handling 2D arrays,
