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1) Array of length n, its elements are x-powers of the range (1 to n+1). There is one repeated element, find it. - The interviewer helps you till you reach the final solution, but he keeps asking about time and space complexity of each move you do. He may ask you to implement system functions like pow, sqrt and so on.
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Research Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Mar 19, 2016

1) Array of length n, its elements are x-powers of the range (1 to n+1). There is one repeated element, find it. - The interviewer helps you till you reach the final solution, but he keeps asking about time and space complexity of each move you do. He may ask you to implement system functions like pow, sqrt and so on.

All researcher basically presented a problem (very broad and under specified) and asked how I would approach them. They varied from entity linking prediction up to a specific problem regarding user needs in a retrieval system. Only one of them presented me with a programming question. It was a pretty basic one. The question was, given a set of numbers, how to check if there was three numbers x,y,z in the set such that x+y=z.
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Software Research Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jan 7, 2022

All researcher basically presented a problem (very broad and under specified) and asked how I would approach them. They varied from entity linking prediction up to a specific problem regarding user needs in a retrieval system. Only one of them presented me with a programming question. It was a pretty basic one. The question was, given a set of numbers, how to check if there was three numbers x,y,z in the set such that x+y=z.

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