Microsoft Interview Questions

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Validate Palindrome

Given a string str , can you write a method that will return True if is a palindrome and False if it is not? If you'll recall, a palindrome is defined as "a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward". For now, assume that we will not have input strings that contain spec...

Difficulty: 3/10

Merge Sorted Linked Lists

Write an algorithm to merge two sorted linked lists and return it as a new sorted list. The new list should be constructed by joining the nodes of the input lists. You may assume the following node definition: js function Node val this.value val this.next null const...

Difficulty: 5/10

Build a Calculator

Let's build a very basic calculator by programming it! You've probably seen one that look similar to this: But we won't be building a physical calculator HardwareDaily will need to wait! instead, we'll be writing a simple program that can serve as one. Can you write a function that will evalua...

Difficulty: 7/10

Reverse a String

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Difficulty: 2/10

How Many Strongly Connected

Given a directed graph lessons simple reference to graphs represented via an adjacency list, write a class StronglyConnectedComponents with a count method that would return the number of strongly connected components in a graph. The definition of a strong connected component is a subgr...

Difficulty: 8/10

Sorted Two Sum

The setup is the same as Two Sum challenges two sum you're given an array of numbers, and a "goal" number. Write a method to return an array of the indexes of the two elements in the array that sum up to the goal. If there are no such elements, return an empty array. The caveat here is th...

Difficulty: 5/10

Majority Element

Suppose we're given an array of numbers like the following: 4, 2, 4 Could you find the majority element? A majority is defined as "the greater part, or more than half, of the total. It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements." Let's assume that the array l...

Difficulty: 3/10

How Out of Order

*This was submitted by user Hackleman.* Determine how "out of order" a list is by writing a function that returns the number of inversions in that list. Two elements of a list L , L i and L j , form an inversion if L i j . For example, the list 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 has 10 inversi...

Difficulty: 5/10

Next Greater Element in a Circular Array

A circular array challenges next larger in a circular array is one where the next element of the last element is the first element. You know how standard arrays look. Instead of 1, 2, 3, 4 , imagine the following, where after index 7 , we'd move back to index 0 . Can you write ...

Difficulty: 6/10

Find First Non-Repeating Character

You're given a string of random alphanumerical characters with a length between 0 and 1000 . Write a method to return the first character in the string that does not repeat itself later on. So if we had a string input of "asdfsdafdasfjdfsafnnunl'" , we can see there are multiple letters that...

Difficulty: 4/10

Deployment to Cloud Platforms

Introduction to Cloud Platforms Cloud platforms are a fundamental component of modern software development and deployment. They provide infrastructure, services, and resources for hosting and running applications. By leveraging cloud platforms, developers can focus on building and scaling their...

Difficulty: 5/10

Migration to Azure

Introduction to Azure Azure is Microsoft's cloud computing platform that provides a wide range of services for businesses looking to transform digitally. With Azure, you can leverage the power of the cloud to build, deploy, and manage applications and services across a global network of data cen...

Difficulty: 5/10

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People at Microsoft Say

This information was sourced from reviews originally posted on Glassdoor.

I work on a great team where my manager actively puts me on work that will allow me to move forward in my career while considering what I am most interested in learning. I have great work/life balance, working 8-4pm most days. As long as your work gets done on time they don't mind which hours you are in the office. Of course this probably changes depending on the team or how high up the ladder you are. It can feel harder to do big exciting new things on a very old code base that we desperately want running smoothly.

Surrounded by brilliant people, work on projects with major impact, work with people from around the world. Corporate structure, sometimes slow to move or change direction, promotion is not necessarily about merit, job is often all-consuming. Be more generous with health benefits. Increase pay. Allow teams to take more chances. Practice what you preach about "work/life balance".

Great change in culture since Satya took over. Supportive environment, lots of new opportunities. Everything is building crazy fast and many tools for building and operating services at scale are behind what Amazon, Google, Facebook have, other tools framework fall to disinvestment/pullback, lots of knowledge sharing still suffers from sharepoint not searchable/restricted access syndrome. Invest heavily in engineering excellence and institutional knowledge and openness.

I have found Microsoft to be a company with an ambitious, competitive, and diverse workforce. Blind spots exist and are like that of other industry leaders. The effort to eliminate them seems sincere if sometimes a little misguided, but its forgivable since management from the top down appears to buy in. Campus construction has made a mess of everything. Program managers want data for everything. Ordinarily that would be good. Sometimes they should embrace their roles as thought and design leaders rather than blindly following where the data takes them. Bring back windows mobile and never quit it again.