Microsoft interview notes, page 15 of 60

“Classic frequency counting problem.” 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.

“I jumped straight into features and had to backtrack when they asked who exactly I was building for.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Classic competitor product question, which is a little awkward coming from Microsoft given they have Teams.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“You never really know which projects they'll latch onto.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Microsoft, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The core logic isn't bad once you think about it as an interval overlap check.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The set operation was trivial since timestamps are guaranteed to be strictly increasing per key, so you just append.” 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.

“I rambled a bit trying to cover everything at once, which was a mistake.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I'd never actually designed anything like this so I just went with a retrieval-augmented approach and hoped for the best.” The rest of the author's notes on Software 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.

“This one has a lot of surface area and I think I spread myself too thin at first.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just scan for each k and check all subarrays, which is obviously too slow.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.