Microsoft Corporation Interview Questions, Process, and Tips

Focus on algorithms and data structures

Q1. Sort 3 arrays and find the closest numbers between them
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Sort 3 arrays and find the closest numbers between them
• Sort each array in ascending order

• Iterate through each array and compare the absolute difference between each element

• Keep track of the smallest difference found so far

• Return the pair of numbers with the smallest difference
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Q1. Tell me about yourself.
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Q2. Tell me about your work. Explain some technical architecture of any project on your resume.
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Q3. How would you go about building a crowd-sourced knowledge management portal.
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A crowd-sourced knowledge management portal can be built by following these steps.
• Identify the target audience and their needs

• Choose a platform for the portal (e.g. WordPress, Drupal)

• Create a user-friendly interface for submitting and searching information

• Implement a system for verifying and moderating user-generated content

• Encourage user participation through incentives and gamification

• Regularly update and maintain th...read more
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Q4. Technical architecture for the same knowledge management portal.
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Q1. Walk me through your resume.
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Q2. There are a ton of applications targeting music industry. I think there is still some gap in the industry that is not yet fulfilled. Can you create something in this space which could be viable?
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Yes, we can create a platform that connects independent artists with local venues for live performances.
• Create a platform that allows independent artists to showcase their music and connect with local venues for live performances

• Include features such as booking, scheduling, and payment processing

• Provide a rating system for both artists and venues to ensure quality performances

• Partner with local music schools and organi...read more
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Q3. How would you build a text editor kind of application, which had to read a 3 TB file, how much of the file would you display(classic scrolling/pre-fetch problem), how would search work, jumping instantly...read more
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Building a text editor for a 3 TB file with efficient scrolling and search functionality.
• Implement virtual scrolling to display only a portion of the file at a time

• Use pre-fetching to load the next portion of the file in the background

• Implement efficient search algorithms like binary search or indexing

• Allow users to jump to any entry by implementing a table of contents or index

• Consider using compression techniques to r
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Q1. Why PM? Why Microsoft?
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Q2. Build a web-scrapper for a search engine
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To build a web-scraper for a search engine, we need to identify the target website, select the data to be scraped, and use a programming language to write the scraper.
• Identify the target website and the data to be scraped

• Choose a programming language and a web-scraping library

• Write the code to extract the data and store it in a database

• Test the scraper and refine it as needed
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Q3. I(interviewer) am an engineer. Tell me what I need to do. Where do I start?
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Q1. I have no any experience I have not any Questions
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Q2. I have no Question well you can ask questions me
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Standard LC questions

Q1. Standard Microsoft tagged question
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Q1. N queen problem
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Q2. OS related problem. Design a file based logger
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Q1. DSA. Array based
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