Microsoft | SDE 2 | Hyderabad | Passed | November 2024

Microsoft | SDE 2

Current Employment Status:

• Position: Senior Software Engineer
• Years of Experience: 5
• Date:

Round 1: Online Assessment (90 Minutes)

1. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock
2. Interleaving String

Round 2: DSA Technical Interview (45 Minutes)

1. Merge two B-Trees (Trees with value as a list of integers)

Round 3: Technical Interview (1 hour) Focused mainly on OS concepts of thread synchronization, mutexes, and semaphores. Discussed the producer-consumer problem with several scenarios.

Round 4: Technical Interview (1 hour) Focused on OS concepts, mainly memory management. Asked to design a garbage collector.

Round 5: Technical and Behavioral Interview (1 hour)

1. Resume Project Discussion (20 Minutes)
2. Design a Filesystem (20 Minutes)
3. C++ RAII concepts (15 minutes)
4. Question from me (5 minutes)

Result: Interview cleared; offer negotiation in progress