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      Software Development Engineer Interview

      Dec 14, 2019
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Bengaluru
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Bengaluru) in Dec 2019

      Interview

      I interviewed with Microsoft Azure Team - Hyderabad at Bangalore location . Overall it was a very bad experience. It was a bulk hiring process, where they had flown in  interviewers from Hyderabad. Around 40+ candidates of more than 3 years experience had been called. Everyone was made to wait, and it was too stressful on the candidates - due to the longer wait time, and the panel - due to the high number of candidates to be interviewed. I had two rounds. Each round was less than 30 minutes and very short. Not sure if it is because I gave the answer rightaway or because the interviewers were not interested (seemed like it). First round : 1. Tell me about yourself 2. About my current work and job. 3. Then asked one coding question : Rotate array. He asked to propose any solution first, and then optimise it. I said I have encountered this question and know the optimal solution with O(n) time and O(1) space. He asked to explain solution and then code it. Once I completed - he asked to do unit test and say few test cases - I did it. That was it. Second round : 1. Few questions about my current work and job 2. One coding question : Clone LL with random pointer :   I had not known this question before and I came up with hashing based implementation . The interviewer asked me to write it down, and once done he asked me for alternative implementations. I suggested two other methods all with O(n) extra space - but he wanted with O(1) extra space. I could not come up with it and was asked to leave. Other people who interviewed with me got the following questions : 1. Implement singleton design pattern 2. clone circular Linked List Overall interview experience was very bad. I had to wait for more than 7 hours just to give 30 minutes of interview. The interviewers did not discuss or participate in problem solving - once I solved the given problem, interview was over. Also they seemed very disinterested in the entire interview process. HR co-ordination was also very bad. Both interviewers did not have my resume and had some one else's resume - so it was irritating. Major focus was on array, Linked List and design. 

      Interview questions [2]

      Question 1

      Rotate array. He asked to propose any solution first, and then optimise it.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Clone LL with random pointer : pointer/
      1 Answer
      1

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