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1 rounds | 2 Coding problems

Anonymous

Fresher | Aug 2023

Rejected

Interview preparation journey

Journey

Started with DSA in the third semester of the college and consistently solved atleast one problem everyday. Covered an in-depth knowledge of all the CS Fundamentals and made a couple of projects enroute to the final year.

Application story

I had applied in Microsoft Engage and from there I had gotten the chance to intern at Microsoft. The interview was an exit interview conducted after the eight weeks of the internship.

Why selected/rejected for the role?

Focusing on the quality and not the quantity of the question is the key to the selection. Having an in-depth idea of the logic and the problem-solving abilities will surely help one crack this.

Preparation

Duration: 3 months

Topics: Data Structures, Pointers, OOPS, Algorithms, Dynamic Programming, Binary Trees

Tip

Tip 1: Practice at least 250 questions
Tip 2: Do at least 2 projects
Tip 3: Have a strong hold on the computer fundamentals like OOPs, OS, DBMS, and CN

Application process

Where: Company Website

Eligibility: No criteria

Resume tip

Tip 1: Have some projects on resume.
Tip 2: Do not put false things on resume.

Interview rounds

Round

Hard

Video Call

Duration45 minutes

Interview date17 Aug 2023

Coding problem2

Timing- In the morning from 10 AM

1. Product of the Last K Numbers

Easy

15m average time

85% success

0/40

Asked in companies

Given a sequence of queries of insertion and getProduct, you need to create an array using queries of type-0 and answer queries of type-1.

In each query, the input is of two types :

Problem approach

I applied the brute force approach to store the infinite stream in a vector of infinite size and then perform the following operation. The interviewer asked me to optimise the solution. Then I gave the solution using a queue.

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