Microsoft interview notes, page 14 of 60

“My first instinct was to just sort, which would've been wrong.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you can burn two minutes on context and never get to the part they actually care about.” The rest of the author's notes on Technical Program Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is the kind of question where you think you're ready and then the follow-ups expose every corner you didn't prepare.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Multi Round round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Weird question to get in a Microsoft interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Microsoft, Recruiter / HR Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one has a lot of surface area.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This is where I stumbled a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started with data pipeline stuff and the interviewer kind of just waited.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Knew this problem but still fumbled the implementation a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one is trickier than it looks because saving 'current index' is not enough.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Felt pretty solid on this part.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Microsoft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.