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MICROSOFT DRIVE | 15th Feb 2025

Round 1

Questions:

  1. Sorted And Rotated Array with K=2 (Exact question not remembered, but it's a Leetcode question).
  2. Given a string and a pattern, find the first index of occurrence of the pattern in the string and also check for its anagram.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 2

Questions:

  1. A DSA question related to merge sort, specifically about reverse pairs where 2 * nums[i] > nums[j] (Exact question not remembered, but Leetcoders will recognize it).
  2. System design question: High-Level Design (HLD) of TinyURL, with discussions on caching and database considerations.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


Round 3

Questions:

  1. System design call focused on project infrastructure, including topics like rate limiting and load balancing.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.


HM Round

Questions:

  1. General questions were asked, but only one simple question was posed, which the candidate felt was messed up due to not being in the right state of mind.
Candidate's Approach

No approach provided.

Interviewer's Feedback

No feedback provided.