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Most of the technical questions, I felt very prepared for. The most difficult questions were behavioral. In particular, "Tell me about an experience where a project partner enjoyed working with you." Rather than talking about your skills you have to talk about how you worked well with others in a way that they enjoyed working with you, and do so without coming off as being arrogant. Also, they didn't ask the question directly, but came to it in a way that put you on the back foot. The question immediately before was to tell them about a time that you had difficulty working with a partner, and also about a time that a partner had difficulty working with you.
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4★
Apr 18, 2013

Most of the technical questions, I felt very prepared for. The most difficult questions were behavioral. In particular, "Tell me about an experience where a project partner enjoyed working with you." Rather than talking about your skills you have to talk about how you worked well with others in a way that they enjoyed working with you, and do so without coming off as being arrogant. Also, they didn't ask the question directly, but came to it in a way that put you on the back foot. The question immediately before was to tell them about a time that you had difficulty working with a partner, and also about a time that a partner had difficulty working with you.

Given a balance and marbles where one marble weighs more than the other, how many times do you have to use the balance to find the heaviest marble for 7 marbles. Then, extend that answer to how many marbles can you weigh with 4 tries.
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Software Development Engineer II

Interviewed at Expedia Group

3.7★
Nov 5, 2012

Given a balance and marbles where one marble weighs more than the other, how many times do you have to use the balance to find the heaviest marble for 7 marbles. Then, extend that answer to how many marbles can you weigh with 4 tries.

2nd question: 250 points. Smart Assembly Language Given a program compile it and print its output to STDOUT. The given language has 8 types of statements: ECHO 1 => prints the given number to STDOUT. Eg: ECHO 1 prints 1 to STDOUT EXIT => exits the program SET a 0 => assign variable a value 0, i.e. equivalent to a = 0 ADD 1 2 b => add 1(first) and 2(second) and assign its value to b(third), equivalent to b = 1 + 2. Value 3 will be assigned to variable b GOTO and LABEL LABEL 12 <statement> <statement> <statement> GOTO 12 The GOTO statement jumps to corresponding LABEL (defined by argument). The LABEL can occur either before or after GOTO statement. IF and END IF a 10 <statement> <statement> <statement> END If a(first argument) is equal to 10(second argument) then only statements between IF and END will be executed otherwise they will bot be executed. CONTINUE IF a 10 <statement> <statement> CONTINUE <statement> END CONTINUE is used inside IF END block. CONTINUE jumps to the corresponding IF statement of the block. Note: All arguments are whole numbers only. Variables names can only consist alphabetic[a-z] characters. All variables are intially 0. You don't need to SET a variable before using it. Example 1 Input SET a 0 LABEL 100 ADD a 1 a ECHO a IF a 5 EXIT END GOTO 100 Output 1 2 3 4 5 Example 2 Input SET a 1 SET b 2 SET goal 5 SET flag 0 IF flag 0 ADD a b c IF a goal ADD a a a SET flag 1 END ECHO a SET a b SET b c CONTINUE END Output 1 2 3 10
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Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Smartprix

3.4★
Aug 20, 2017

2nd question: 250 points. Smart Assembly Language Given a program compile it and print its output to STDOUT. The given language has 8 types of statements: ECHO 1 => prints the given number to STDOUT. Eg: ECHO 1 prints 1 to STDOUT EXIT => exits the program SET a 0 => assign variable a value 0, i.e. equivalent to a = 0 ADD 1 2 b => add 1(first) and 2(second) and assign its value to b(third), equivalent to b = 1 + 2. Value 3 will be assigned to variable b GOTO and LABEL LABEL 12 <statement> <statement> <statement> GOTO 12 The GOTO statement jumps to corresponding LABEL (defined by argument). The LABEL can occur either before or after GOTO statement. IF and END IF a 10 <statement> <statement> <statement> END If a(first argument) is equal to 10(second argument) then only statements between IF and END will be executed otherwise they will bot be executed. CONTINUE IF a 10 <statement> <statement> CONTINUE <statement> END CONTINUE is used inside IF END block. CONTINUE jumps to the corresponding IF statement of the block. Note: All arguments are whole numbers only. Variables names can only consist alphabetic[a-z] characters. All variables are intially 0. You don't need to SET a variable before using it. Example 1 Input SET a 0 LABEL 100 ADD a 1 a ECHO a IF a 5 EXIT END GOTO 100 Output 1 2 3 4 5 Example 2 Input SET a 1 SET b 2 SET goal 5 SET flag 0 IF flag 0 ADD a b c IF a goal ADD a a a SET flag 1 END ECHO a SET a b SET b c CONTINUE END Output 1 2 3 10

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