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Updated 8 Mar 2025

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Sde1 Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 23 Apr 2024

Interview experience
1
Bad
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Max element in heap
  • Ans. 

    To find the max element in a heap, simply return the root element.

    • The max element in a heap is always the root element.

    • No need to traverse the entire heap, just return the root element.

    • Example: If the heap is [10, 8, 5, 4, 3, 2], the max element is 10.

  • Answered by AI

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Q1. DSA and Language Questions: 1. Difference between Arrays and ArrayList in Java. 2. Queue Implementation using Linked List. 3. BST- How would you fill a BST with a sorted array. 4. Random pointer linked-list clone. 5. Fibonacci number genera... read more
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SDE Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 26 Feb 2024

Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Jan 2024. There was 1 interview round.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

3 coding questions, mostly focused on dp, graphs strings and arrays, it was medium to hard level

Top Microsoft Corporation SDE Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. find the minimum no of jumps required to reach the end of array.where element at each index represent how many max moves you will take in right
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SDE Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Return Subsets Sum to K Problem Statement Given an integer array 'ARR' of size 'N' and an integer 'K', return all the subsets of 'ARR' which sum to 'K'. Explanation: A subset of an array 'ARR' is a tuple that can be obtained from 'ARR' by r... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
2-4 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Company Website and was interviewed in Feb 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. How do you take your failures. explain the failures. what you learned from failures, How you wil ensure you wont repeat it again.
  • Q2. Program management related questions. Scheduling, Risk register and scope management. A few scenario based questions.
Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behaviour related questions. You need to explain about the core competencies. More concentration on the how you react to certain scenarios
Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Salary related questions and related to date of joining and work culture

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident. Be yourself. explain with examples. Take examples from your past projects.

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Q1. How delivery execution will be done considering the customer satisfaction in mind
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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 12 Oct 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Properly align and format text in your resume. A recruiter will have to spend more time reading poorly aligned text, leading to high chances of rejection.
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Round 2 - One-on-one 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about a time when you had to work on a challenging project with a tight deadline.
  • Q2. Describe a situation in which you had to resolve a conflict with a colleague.

Top Microsoft Corporation Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse the order of words in a given sentence(an array of characters)
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Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Intern Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 6 Oct 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
More than 8 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Don’t add your photo or details such as gender, age, and address in your resume. These details do not add any value.
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Round 2 - Coding Test 

Coding related basic questions

Round 3 - project 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Project on ai-ml
  • Ans. 

    AI-ML project involves using artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to analyze data and make predictions.

    • Collecting and cleaning data for training the AI model

    • Choosing the appropriate machine learning algorithm for the task

    • Evaluating the performance of the model using metrics like accuracy and precision

    • Implementing the model in a real-world application

    • Continuously improving the model through feedback a

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  • Q2. Coding questions
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. String question

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Top Microsoft Corporation Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Reverse the order of words in a given sentence(an array of characters)
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Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Case. There is a housing society “The wasteful society”, you collect all the household garbage and sell it to 5 different businesses. Determine what price you will pay to the society members in Rs/kg, given you want to make a profit of 20% ... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
6-8 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Apr 2023. There were 4 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

You need to write code as algorithm for the given problem

Round 2 - Coding Test 

You will need a end to end architecture and details , along with problem solving skillset

Round 3 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Techno managerial Round
Round 4 - One-on-one 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Senior manager round or as called AA round

Software Engineer2 Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. - Given a water -tight orientable 2-manifold, how to find if a point is inside or outside its volume? - Given a bunch of points with their coordinates, how to merge closeby points together? - How to determine if the normals of the two trian... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Group Discussion 

Experience, scope and challenges

Round 2 - Case Study 

Present a cloud solution based on MS Azure Stack

Round 3 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Behavioral and comp

Cloud Architect Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. How do you manage access control for data platform with multiple vendors like AWS, Snowflake and Databricks.
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3D Designer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 26 Sep 2023

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Easy
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Selected Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Mar 2023. There were 3 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Resume Shortlist 
Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
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Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Do you prefer working independently or as part of team?
  • Q2. Which value help you meet deadlines when working as part of a team?
  • Ans. Yes my team value and working best part team
  • Answered Anonymously
Round 3 - Coding Test 

My name is mayur chavan and I am a designer

Interview Preparation Tips

Topics to prepare for Microsoft Corporation 3D Designer interview:
  • Python
  • Javascript
  • PHP
  • CSS
  • DHTML
  • HTML
  • Swift
  • Ruby Rails
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Thank you

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Q1. If you need help from our company to get rid of mould
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PMC Engineer Interview Questions & Answers

user image Anonymous

posted on 8 May 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Nov 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Aptitude Test 

Maths and logical reasoning

Round 2 - Coding Test 

Very simple question of python

PMC Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Development of roads o Explain of quantity construction of drain and sanitary flow
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Moderate
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Not Selected

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Feb 2023. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

There was 2 ques in OA round. One question out which i solved by using dp here OA focus mainly over graph and dp

Round 2 - Technical 

(3 Questions)

  • Q1. Minimum element in stack in O(1) space
  • Ans. 

    To find the minimum element in a stack in O(1) space, use an auxiliary stack to keep track of the minimum element at each step.

    • Create an auxiliary stack to store the minimum element at each step.

    • When pushing an element onto the main stack, compare it with the top element of the auxiliary stack and push the smaller one onto the auxiliary stack.

    • When popping an element from the main stack, also pop the top element from th...

  • Answered by AI
  • Q2. What is segmentation fault and write the code to show this
  • Ans. 

    A segmentation fault occurs when a program tries to access a memory location that it is not allowed to access.

    • Segmentation faults commonly occur due to accessing an uninitialized pointer or accessing an array out of bounds.

    • Here is an example code that causes a segmentation fault: int main() { int* ptr; *ptr = 10; return 0; }

  • Answered by AI
  • Q3. Balanced parenthesis and have to do all permutation of it and store it in vector and return this vector
  • Ans. 

    Generate all permutations of balanced parentheses and store them in a vector.

    • Use backtracking to generate all possible combinations of parentheses

    • Check for balanced parentheses using a stack

    • Store each valid combination in a vector

    • Return the vector of permutations

  • Answered by AI

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Try to take idea of every topic try to solve as much ques as u can as same ques from leet they ask in interview

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Software Engineer Intern Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Check if Two Trees are Mirror Given two arbitrary binary trees, your task is to determine whether these two trees are mirrors of each other. Explanation: Two trees are considered mirror of each other if: The roots of both the trees are the... read more
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Microsoft Corporation Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Microsoft Corporation interview?
Microsoft Corporation interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Microsoft Corporation interview process are Technical, Coding Test and One-on-one Round.
How to prepare for Microsoft Corporation interview?
Go through your CV in detail and study all the technologies mentioned in your CV. Prepare at least two technologies or languages in depth if you are appearing for a technical interview at Microsoft Corporation. The most common topics and skills that interviewers at Microsoft Corporation expect are microsoft, Computer science, C++, Coding and Python.
What are the top questions asked in Microsoft Corporation interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Microsoft Corporation interview -

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How long is the Microsoft Corporation interview process?

The duration of Microsoft Corporation interview process can vary, but typically it takes about less than 2 weeks to complete.

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