Microsoft interview notes, page 38 of 60

“This one I actually felt okay about.” The rest of the author's notes on Product 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.

“My first instinct was BFS with a queue and I even started explaining it before they stopped me and pointed at the space requirement.” 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 sprawled in a way I didn't expect.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager 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.

“I started with SMTP and worked my way through DNS lookup, MX records, TLS handshake, spam filtering on the receiving end.” 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 BERT well enough but rambled a bit trying to cover everything at once.” 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.

“pretty surface level, just explained it's a language for querying and managing relational databases.” 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 sprawled in ways I didn't anticipate.” 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.

“The core of it is just argmax at each step, but I spent too long overthinking whether they wanted me to handle log-probabilities vs raw logits.” 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.

“This question is basically nine questions stapled together and handed to you with a smile.” 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 is where it gets real fast.” 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.