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      Applied Research Scientist Interview

      Mar 21, 2026
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Redmond, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

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      I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA)

      Interview

      They asked hypothetical questions about building support for teams, like using data they have available and agents. Then came the second step which was a concrete coding question (see below) in an IDE of my choosing.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Problem: Top K Most Similar Documents You are given: an integer array queryEmb of length D, representing a query embedding a 2D integer array docEmbs of size N x D, representing N document embeddings an integer k All embeddings are already L2-normalized. The cosine similarity between two normalized vectors is equal to their dot product. Return the indices of the k documents with the highest cosine similarity to queryEmb, ordered from most similar to least similar. If k > N, return all document indices sorted by similarity. Function Signature def topKSimilar(queryEmb: np.ndarray, docEmbs: np.ndarray, k: int) -> np.ndarray
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