Telling my MSFT interview experience

New / Eng
king+ve

New Eng

king+ve
Feb 23 11 Comments

Hey guys, I have been helped by many people by letting me know their interview experience. Since there are so many questions revolving around interview questions on Blind, I thought to write about my interview experience with MSFT. I hope it helps someone out there and would love to see the trend of writing experiences on Blind take off.

Note - I interviewed in one of their hiring events which consisted of 4 rounds. I have 0 YOE.

Round 1: Leetcode - Number of islands modification after which we dived deeper into the time and space complexity of the problem and also some theoretical explanation about it.

Round 2: Leetcode - Word Ladder 1 followed by Word Ladder 2

Round 3: OOP question - Designing Parking Lot.

Round 4: N-ary tree level order traversal

I feel hiring events are a good opportunity for people with no experience since the questions mostly involve around Leetcode and even the OOP question was more focused on concepts and not arriving on the final solution.

Good luck everyone.

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TOP 11 Comments
  • Hey OP, thanks for sharing! I got mine coming up in couple weeks. Would you say msft top tagged would be good enough? Do you think I should expect DP problems? How well did u do each round?
    Feb 24 1
    • New / Eng
      king+ve

      New Eng

      king+ve
      OP
      I think I did well in all except for the OOP round. I was not able to match the interviewers thinking.
      Feb 24
  • SAP
    RzDl47

    Go to company page SAP

    RzDl47
    I hate leetcode in interviews. I wish we'd just move on.
    Feb 23 0
  • HERE
    UMuE83

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    UMuE83
    Cool, four rounds of problems which you’ll never encounter (write code for) in real life. Sounds like bad place to work.
    Feb 23 1
  • Amazon
    boomeroo

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    boomeroo
    How’d it go? Also any behavioural questions?
    Feb 23 2
    • New / Eng
      king+ve

      New Eng

      king+ve
      OP
      Yep, only in 1 round though.
      Feb 24
    • New / Eng
      king+ve

      New Eng

      king+ve
      OP
      Overall it was okay. I don't think the interviewer was satisfied with the way I was going about the OOP question. I was just not able to say what they wanted to hear I guess.
      Feb 24
  • I also got the parking lot question..conceptually I found it to be really difficult
    Feb 23 1
    • New / Eng
      king+ve

      New Eng

      king+ve
      OP
      I agree.
      Feb 24