Microsoft | Hiring Drive | June 7 | Bangalore

Microsoft Hiring Drive

Years of Experience: ~6 Current Experience: MNC

Status: Awaiting feedback from the recruiter. The portal shows the interview stage. The recruiter is not responding to emails or calls, and internal Microsoft employees have not provided feedback.

Interview Date: June 7

The interview was a hiring drive for the Azure Storage team. It consisted of three technical rounds on the same day, with 15-minute breaks between each round.

Round 1: Data Structures and Algorithms

The round started with questions about projects, focusing on the most significant contributions and follow-up questions.

Graph question: Given an MxN matrix where some cells are marked as 0 and others are marked with integers 1-9. There is a given starting point in the matrix. A person cannot reach the cells marked as 0. The cost of reaching a cell is the number marked for the cell. Find the minimum cost to get out of the maze (to any reachable point on the boundary of the maze).

I was not able to fully solve this question.

Round 2: Data Structures and Algorithms

This round included questions about my current work experience and virtual memory.

Search in Rotated Sorted Array

The interview lasted 45 minutes. I completed the interviewer's questions and the problem within the allotted time.

Round 3: High-Level Design and Low-Level Design

This round started with a brief discussion of my current project and its architecture.

Design a Message Broker: The questions focused on how subscribers publish messages, which database to use, the structure of tables/documents, and basic interfaces that could be created.

This interview lasted 90 minutes.