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In the first interview, I was asked among other things, to described the concept of threads to a 6 year old. One of the technical questions later on was the "number of islands" problem, which you can find on leet code.
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Interviewed at Microsoft

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May 14, 2023

In the first interview, I was asked among other things, to described the concept of threads to a 6 year old. One of the technical questions later on was the "number of islands" problem, which you can find on leet code.

A question that required knowledge of BFS/DFS algorithms. Given a matrix of numbers, change all numbers - let's say equal to 1 (while the rest are zero), that can be reached from the starting point, and are adjacent to one another in the matrix (resulting in a "coloring" pattern).
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Student Software Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

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Apr 21, 2019

A question that required knowledge of BFS/DFS algorithms. Given a matrix of numbers, change all numbers - let's say equal to 1 (while the rest are zero), that can be reached from the starting point, and are adjacent to one another in the matrix (resulting in a "coloring" pattern).

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