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Software Developer Interview

Oct 20, 2010

Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Application

The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Apr 2010

Interview

The interviewer was nice, gave some hints but I failed it due to a bad preparation.

Interview questions [3]

Question 1

How to would you find out whether a substring occurs in a given string?

3 Answers

Question 2

How to find the least common ancestor of two elements in a binary search tree?

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Question 3

Something about finding a minimal element in the matrix

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Software Engineer Interview

Oct 13, 2010

Anonymous Interview Candidate

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Application

The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Sep 2010

Interview

One question about algrithm. Please focus on the details.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

A sorted list is rotated, and find the index for the first value.

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Software Developer Interview

Oct 11, 2010

Anonymous Interview Candidate

No offer

Negative experience

Easy interview

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I applied through college or university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft in Oct 2008

Interview

I was given a few simple problems to solve (writing a pseudo-code). My answers were accepted as correct, however I didn't get the next interview.

Interview questions [1]

Question 1

No difficult questions really. One of the questions was how would you find third biggest number in the array.

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