Microsoft interview notes, page 30 of 60

“I jumped straight into a heap-based solution before nailing down the aggregation rule, which was a mistake.” 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 rattled off the usual stuff: prioritization, communication, data-driven thinking.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“My first instinct was to use a hash of the URL as the key, which works until you realize collisions are a real problem and you need to handle them.” 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.

“Sorting first is the move and I knew that, but I second-guessed myself for a minute wondering if there was some O(n) trick I was missing.” 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 knew this one cold but somehow started rambling about SHA-256 before actually defining either term.” 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 fumbled this a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“I jumped straight into features before even picking a user segment, 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 went with separate chaining because open addressing under pressure felt like a recipe for off-by-one disasters.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Coding / Algorithms round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Rattled off the obvious ones: 22 for SSH, 80 and 443 for HTTP/HTTPS, 3389 for RDP, 445 for SMB.” 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.