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There were 3 rounds of interview. In first round, there were 2 questions and i had to explain and code both. First question was based on merging intervals and in other question a binary tree was given and I had to find the size of a subtree in which all the nodes have value 0. in round 2, again there were three questions and the interviewer said "I want to have a good discussion, if your are unable to give correct answer its okay, but correct answer will matter." first question was same as "house robber 3" on leetcode, except it was n-ary tree. In second question, I was given a binary tree and i had to remove and edge from the tree such that resulting two tree's heights difference is maximum. I had to return the difference of heights. In round 3 i was asked a few questions about my life and journey along with some designing questions based on OOPS
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Software Development Engineer (SDE)

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jan 6, 2022

There were 3 rounds of interview. In first round, there were 2 questions and i had to explain and code both. First question was based on merging intervals and in other question a binary tree was given and I had to find the size of a subtree in which all the nodes have value 0. in round 2, again there were three questions and the interviewer said "I want to have a good discussion, if your are unable to give correct answer its okay, but correct answer will matter." first question was same as "house robber 3" on leetcode, except it was n-ary tree. In second question, I was given a binary tree and i had to remove and edge from the tree such that resulting two tree's heights difference is maximum. I had to return the difference of heights. In round 3 i was asked a few questions about my life and journey along with some designing questions based on OOPS

Print a matrix in spiral fashion...so Matrix input example (Arrows indicate how the spiral happens...start at first arrow go in circle and move to next arrow...etc.) ->1 1 1 1 1 1 -> 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Output: 11111111111111222222
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Senior Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jul 8, 2015

Print a matrix in spiral fashion...so Matrix input example (Arrows indicate how the spiral happens...start at first arrow go in circle and move to next arrow...etc.) ->1 1 1 1 1 1 -> 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 Output: 11111111111111222222

a) Develop a XML parser (rules: Node closures and single root node..i.e. root node cannot be duplicated in structure). b) Count occurrences of words in a string (with string too large to be processed in memory).
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Senior Software Development Engineer

Interviewed at Microsoft

4
Jul 8, 2015

a) Develop a XML parser (rules: Node closures and single root node..i.e. root node cannot be duplicated in structure). b) Count occurrences of words in a string (with string too large to be processed in memory).

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