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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
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Result
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Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me about your self
  • Ans. 

    I am a dedicated Technical Support Engineer with 5 years of experience in troubleshooting hardware and software issues.

    • 5 years of experience in technical support

    • Proficient in troubleshooting hardware and software issues

    • Strong communication and problem-solving skills

    • Certified in IT support

    • Experience working with various operating systems such as Windows and Linux

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  • Q2. What are the day to day activities
  • Ans. 

    Day to day activities of a Technical Support Engineer involve troubleshooting technical issues, providing customer support, and documenting solutions.

    • Troubleshooting technical issues reported by customers

    • Providing customer support via phone, email, or chat

    • Documenting solutions and creating knowledge base articles

    • Collaborating with other teams to resolve complex issues

    • Testing software updates and patches before deployme

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Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - prepare well

Top Microsoft Corporation Technical Support Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What are the steps which you will follow if a customer calls and tell you that he is not able to do any editing in Microsoft word?
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Q1. Admin Questions :- What is Relationships what are types of relationships
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
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Round 1 - Coding Test 

2 DSA questions asked on codility platform. One was about backtracking, and another about 1D DP.

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Given a binary tree, return false if there exists any node such that it has two children and left node has value greater than right, else return true.
  • Ans. 

    Check if any node in binary tree violates left node value less than right node value rule.

    • Traverse the binary tree using depth-first search (DFS) or breadth-first search (BFS) and check each node for the given condition.

    • If a node has two children and the left child's value is greater than the right child's value, return false.

    • If no such node is found, return true.

    • Example: For a binary tree with nodes 5, 3, 7, 2, 4, 6, ...

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  • Q2. Remove duplicate characters from a string efficiently.
  • Ans. 

    Use a hash set to efficiently remove duplicate characters from a string.

    • Create a hash set to store unique characters.

    • Iterate through the string and add each character to the hash set.

    • If a character is already in the hash set, skip it.

    • Convert the hash set back to a string to get the result.

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Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do leetcode medium for interviews, medium + hard for OA round.

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Q1. find average salary of employees from given table for each designation where employee age greater than 30
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Process the given string
  • Q2. Sort the array in alternates
  • Ans. 

    Sort the array in alternates

    • Iterate through the array and separate the strings into two separate arrays based on their index being even or odd

    • Sort both arrays separately

    • Merge the two sorted arrays back into the original array in alternate positions

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Top Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. You have a cuboid (m*n*p) each block of the cuboid is having a metallic ball. Now we are passing X-ray from front face and getting a bool matrix1 of m*p the elements are set if there is a black spot.(as we are passing X-ray) and another mat... read more
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Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

6 questions asked in an interview

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Slider window problem
  • Ans. 

    The slider window problem involves finding the maximum sum of a subarray of a fixed size k within an array of integers.

    • Use a sliding window approach to efficiently find the maximum sum subarray.

    • Keep track of the current sum within the window and update it as you slide the window.

    • Maintain a variable to store the maximum sum found so far.

    • Example: Given array [1, 3, -1, -3, 5, 3, 6, 7] and window size k=3, the maximum sum

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  • Q2. Stock buy sell problem
  • Ans. 

    The stock buy sell problem involves finding the maximum profit that can be made by buying and selling a stock at the right times.

    • Calculate the difference between each pair of consecutive prices in the array

    • Find the maximum subarray sum of the differences using Kadane's algorithm

    • The maximum subarray sum is the maximum profit that can be made

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Q1. Wait in selenium and how to find all links present in a page xpath
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Software Developer Interview Questions & Answers

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posted on 30 Nov 2024

Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

DSA, Graph, DP, Arrays

Top Microsoft Corporation Software Developer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Buses Origin Problem Statement You have been provided with an array where each element specifies the number of buses that can be boarded at each respective bus stop. Buses will only stop at locations that are multiples of the bus stop they ... read more
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Q1. Maximum Subarray Sum Problem Statement Given an array of integers, determine the maximum possible sum of any contiguous subarray within the array. Example: Input: array = [34, -50, 42, 14, -5, 86] Output: 137 Explanation: The maximum sum is... read more
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Synchronisation primitives in rust?
  • Ans. 

    Rust provides various synchronisation primitives like Mutex, RwLock, Atomic types, etc.

    • Mutex: Provides exclusive access to data

    • RwLock: Allows multiple readers or one writer at a time

    • Atomic types: Provide atomic operations on primitive types

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  • Q2. Write a rust code to read a file reverse the contents & write it back to file. Using multiple threads
  • Ans. 

    Rust code to read a file, reverse contents, and write back using multiple threads

    • Use std::fs to read and write files

    • Create multiple threads to handle reading, reversing, and writing operations

    • Use channels to communicate between threads

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Round 2 - Coding Test 

DSA question on Depth first search. & other on reverse the strings.

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Q1. what technique did you use to understand the root cause of the problem and isolate the specific task or process that needed attention
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Interview experience
3
Average
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Basic networking questions including dns dhcp tcp ssl

Top Microsoft Corporation Technical Support Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What are the steps which you will follow if a customer calls and tell you that he is not able to do any editing in Microsoft word?
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Technical Support Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Admin Questions :- What is Relationships what are types of relationships
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Interview experience
5
Excellent
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Azure architecture
  • Q2. Azure security/ azure logic apps/data engineering
Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. Azure migration
  • Q2. Azure devops / azure data engineering
Round 3 - Case Study 

Architecture roadmap 3 tier

Round 4 - HR 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Culture of firm
  • Ans. 

    The culture of the firm is collaborative, innovative, and customer-focused.

    • Encourages teamwork and open communication

    • Values creativity and continuous improvement

    • Prioritizes customer satisfaction

    • Promotes diversity and inclusion

    • Emphasizes work-life balance

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Q1. What are the linux distributions you are using in customer environment?
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
Hard
Process Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
No response

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed in Jul 2024. There were 2 interview rounds.

Round 1 - Coding Test 

Longest continuous subarray with absolute difference less than or equal to limit

Round 2 - Design Test 

(1 Question)

  • Q1. Recommendation system

Top Microsoft Corporation Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. Design elevators - How would you design how elevators work. How do you add different roles etc.
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Senior Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. K Largest Elements Problem Statement You are given an integer k and an array of integers that contain numbers in random order. Write a program to find the k largest numbers from the given array. You need to save them in an array and return ... read more
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Interview experience
4
Good
Difficulty level
-
Process Duration
-
Result
-
Round 1 - Coding Test 

DP AND GRAPH related questions they asked

Round 2 - Technical 

(2 Questions)

  • Q1. First they started with intro
  • Q2. One dp question and then os

Top Microsoft Corporation Software Engineer Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. You have a cuboid (m*n*p) each block of the cuboid is having a metallic ball. Now we are passing X-ray from front face and getting a bool matrix1 of m*p the elements are set if there is a black spot.(as we are passing X-ray) and another mat... read more
View answer (1)

Software Engineer Interview Questions asked at other Companies

Q1. Bridge and torch problem : Four people come to a river in the night. There is a narrow bridge, but it can only hold two people at a time. They have one torch and, because it's night, the torch has to be used when crossing the bridge. Person... 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?

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  1. You are given infinite sequence of continuos natural numbers-1,2,3,4,5,6.........read more
  2. You have a cuboid (m*n*p) each block of the cuboid is having a metallic ball. ...read more
  3. Given a string of containing lower case letters and upper case characters. Find...read more
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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