Microsoft interview notes, page 52 of 60

“This one took me a minute to get past the brute force instinct.” 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, 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 pure BFS and I started coding before really thinking it through.” 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.

“Spent the first few minutes just trying to scope it because 'backend architecture' can mean like five different things.” 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 went with a story about a teammate who pushed a feature change without looping me in and it shifted our metrics in a direction nobody expected.” 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.

“The add/remove/contains part is basically just a HashSet wrapper, so I got through that fast and felt good.” 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.

“Straightforward to start but I could tell they wanted more than just the formulas.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 took longer than I expected.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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.

“The two-pointer swap is pretty standard but I spent an embarrassing amount of time second-guessing whether swapping with a temp variable counted as 'extra space.' It doesn't, obviously.” The rest of the author's notes on Data Scientist 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 three-pointer approach going in, but I fumbled explaining the loop invariant while coding it.” 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.