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Microsoft SDE 2 || Interview

Round 1

Questions:

  1. Variation of Topological Sort
  2. Variation of Target Sum

Both questions were solved correctly.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 2

Questions:

  1. A story was given, and the catch was to find out that DFS will work here.

This question was solved correctly. Additionally, project-related questions were asked.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 3

Questions:

  1. High-level design discussion (not too deep).
  2. A standard backtracking problem, one of the top 5 in the same area.

This round went well.

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 4 (Final)

Questions:

  1. Explain the architecture and what was done in the last project (30 min).
  2. DSA question: LC easy medium on sliding window + max heap.

The coding question was solved correctly, and tests were run on Codility, handling boundary cases. However, there was a mistake in explaining the time complexity regarding the removal from a heap, which was incorrectly stated as O(logn).

Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.