Microsoft | SDE2 | Bangalore | 6th June 2024

Microsoft | SDE2

Background: Software Engineer II (full-stack) with four years of experience at a product-based company.

Online Assessment: The online assessment consisted of two questions: one on lazy loading images using React and another on graphs. I did not fully solve the graph question.

Hiring Event: Following the online assessment, I received three interview invitations for a hiring event.

Round 1: This round included a behavioral discussion about my previous experience (15-20 minutes) and a matrix question, which I solved within the allotted time.

Round 2: This round consisted of:

1. An easy-medium tree question.
2. A vague design question about implementing a cache.
3. A variation of the rotten oranges problem.

Round 3: This round included:

1. A knapsack DP question with a frontend implementation. I was unfamiliar with the frontend platform, but I was able to code the function correctly. The interviewer was very supportive.
2. A behavioral discussion.

Post-Interview: I have contacted the recruiter for feedback, but have not yet received a response about the next round.

Overall: While the recruiters could be more proactive and improve their feedback mechanism, the interviewers were great and very supportive.