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I applied through an employee referral. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Oct 2023
Interview
Some basic introduction after which a single Data Structures and Algorithms round where engineer is supposed to code on codility and share screen with interviewer while solving a question from scratch.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
The problem of transforming one string into another with the minimum number of steps is known as the "edit distance" problem. The most common way to measure the edit distance between two strings is to consider three basic operations: insertion, deletion, and substitution.
It was of 2 rounds, 1st round was Technical round which included medium DSA questions and Resume walk through, I mentioned Web Development project, so I was asked basics of Java Script.
2nd round is again technical and HR combined, questions were tougher in this round but they are standard questions.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Q: The question was a variation of Longest Common Substring,
Q2: Construct a binary tree using post-order and in-order traversal arrays
I applied through college or university. I interviewed at Microsoft (Hyderabad) in Jan 2022
Interview
It's a long interview process
At first they will ask dsa and then there will be questions on cse core subjects and the good project is compulsory
Have complete basics on time and space complexity , good basics on core subjects like DBMS,OS etc