"How would you test the new Microsoft 'Spoon'" -- Basically they told me that microsoft was coming out with the latest and greatest in spoon technology and I was to test it. They were vague on all the questions I asked (everyone goes out of their way to tell you to ask plenty of questions, but it seemed to help absolutely nothing in this case).
There was a question about delimiters that was tough.
The coding question was how to detect if a singularly linked-list is cyclic. Also discuss optimization of the solution and code it in any language of your choice.
How do you simulate the functionality of a queue using 2 stacks
Given a regular phone number dial pad, write code that will list out all the possible letter combinations that can be made given three numerical digits as input. For example, the base function would look like this: function numberToChars(int *numbers) { // would return an array of different character combinations // if input was 123 // output: adg, adh, adi, bdg, etc... }
How would you reverse a string?
"qwe2rty comp1lete Qwus3tion". rearrange the words in sentence based on numerical value present in words.
Second interview more technical questions
Why do you want to work for Microsoft?
Derive the formula for a line
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