Microsoft interview notes, page 50 of 60

“I spent too long on user segmentation and not enough on the actual product moves.” 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 just iterate through for each query, classic O(n*m) brute force.” 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.

“This was the core question and it sprawled into basically everything.” 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.

“My first instinct was brute force, compare every pair, O(n^2).” 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.

“My first instinct was just greedy from the top, grab the largest power of two that fits and subtract.” 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 the basics, L1 pushes weights to zero so you get sparsity, L2 penalizes large weights but keeps them small rather than zeroing them out.” 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 is the classic bias for action prompt and I fumbled the setup 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.

“Basically a columnar slice of a list of dicts.” 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 had a story ready but partway through I realized I was describing a situation where I kind of just guessed and got lucky, which is not a great look.” 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'd done the count-clouds version before so I figured this would be easy.” 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.