Microsoft | L61 | Hyderabad | Dec 2023

Company: Microsoft Position: L61 Date: Dec

Online Assessment: Time: 1.5 hrs

1. Trim all leaves from a binary tree.
2. Dynamic Programming question.

Round 1: PS/DS. Time: 60 mins Longest Duplicate Substring

Platform - Codility codelive

Focus areas: Code quality and correctness Proper working code for sample test cases Think of additional test cases Dry run and time/space complexity analysis

Round 2: LLD. Time: 60 mins Low-level design of an infrared remote control for a centralized home entertainment system. The problem statement was a little complex and took some time to come up with the design.

Codility codelive

Focus areas: SOLID Principles Object-Oriented Design Extensible code with working demo

Round 3: HLD round. Time: ~60 mins Design a translation service for a web browser which takes in pages in different locales and translates it to the desired locale.

Focus areas: Microservices architecture Correct choice of database CAP discussion Scalability and low latency

Round 4: Managerial round. Time: ~60 mins Detailed project discussion and detailed system design of one of my previous projects. Behavioral questions. Team and project discussion in Microsoft.

Notes: The recruiter and interviewers were very helpful.

Verdict: Selected