Tech IndustryNov 7, 2019
T-Mobiledoge 🐶

Microsoft New Grad Onsite Preparation

Been doing LC and MFST tagged questions. Anything else to cover or keep in mind?

Amazon agiwwhHsna Nov 7, 2019

I got a few design questions somehow. Prepare to talk about your past projects/experience. It was in general very chill

T-Mobile doge 🐶 OP Nov 7, 2019

OOP or system design?

Amazon agiwwhHsna Nov 7, 2019

Honestly either??? One system design but that was easy, but the second one was just.... the interviewer presented an ambiguous problem and asked me basically how I’d approach it. I thought I bombed it so hard. Looking back I wouldn’t know how to prepare for that at all

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nod94 Nov 8, 2019

My new grad interview was design heavy. Interview 1 started with the project I did during my internship which he’d seen on my resume and went on for 30-35 mins. Remaining 20-25 had to write code for calculating all possible knight moves on a chessboard. Interview 2 was with the team manager/lead and it was pretty intense. The guy was really good(had shifted from MSR) and research heavy in his field of work, with lots of frequent publishing. Spoke about the team for like 20 and then gave me a design question. Grilled me a lot and was quite intimidating about it. Interview 3 was again somewhat design but included ds stuff too (went from brute — heap — large data small memory constraint, Optimized bst ds) but the interviewer was very friendly and it all flowed like a natural conversation. Interview 4 was again design about building a load balancer(conversation style like #3). So overall pretty intense. Bombed interview 2 but others went well and I ended up with an offer. I wasn’t expecting so much of design, I hadn’t prepared for it at all. But I guess if your fundamentals are decently strong, you’d not have much trouble! Oh also, I have 2 YoE before my masters. So that might’ve been the reason..

SkillSoft maheshtiru Nov 17, 2019

Could anyone please share your time line for MS new grad from application to offer? I have amazon final round lined up and MS application still shows "routed to recruiter" in archive section of activity center!

T-Mobile doge 🐶 OP Nov 17, 2019

no good info here. this was the first time they ever responded over many positions ovee 2 years. this time around, i applied in august, heard back late october for tech screen, then early nov for onsite. i would reach out to a mfst recruiter on linkedin ASAP and ask them to look at your application