Microsoft Global Service Center Support Executive Interview Questions and Answers

Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Q2. Why should we hire you?
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Q3. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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Q4. Tell me about yourself.
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Aptitude Test is very straight forward, logical, communications are tested.

Q1. What are your salary expectations?
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Q2. What is your family background?
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Q3. Share details of your previous job.
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Q4. Why are you looking for a change?
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Q5. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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Q6. Tell me about yourself.
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Q1. This is managers round, where a senior most probably a team lead would join to interview. Case study based questions were asked.
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was a hangout video call. The interviewer asked me these questions. Tell me about yourself and 1 coding question.

Q1. 
Special Numbers Problem Statement
Your task is to find the total count of special numbers within a range from 1 to a given integer, 'MAXVAL'. A special number is defined as a number whose digits, when rot...read more
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Count the total number of special numbers within a given range by rotating digits 180 degrees.
• Create a function to check if a number is a special number by rotating its digits.

• Iterate through the range from 1 to MAXVAL and count the special numbers.

• Handle the digit rotation mapping for 0, 1, 6, 8, 9.

• Return the count of special numbers for each test case.
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was an On-site (Behavioural Round) interview. He asked me these questions.

Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

This was another On-site ( DS & Algo) algorithm.

Q1. 
Covid Vaccination Distribution Problem
As the Government ramps up vaccination drives to combat the second wave of Covid-19, you are tasked with helping plan an effective vaccination schedule. Your goal is...read more
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Given constraints, find max vaccines administered on a specific day during a vaccination drive.
• Iterate through each test case and calculate the maximum number of vaccines distributed on the specified day.

• Distribute vaccines evenly across days while maximizing the number on the specified day.

• Ensure that the sum of vaccines administered does not exceed the maximum allowed.

• Consider edge cases like when the number of days ...read more
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Another On-site ( DS & Algo) interview.

Q1. 
Painter's Partition Problem Statement
Given an array/list representing boards, where each element denotes the length of a board, and a number ‘K’ of available painters, determine the minimum time required...read more
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Determine the minimum time required to paint all boards with given constraints.
• Use binary search to find the minimum and maximum possible time to paint all boards.

• Iterate through the boards and assign them to painters based on the time constraints.

• Calculate the total time taken to paint all boards with the assigned painters.
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Chocolate Distribution Problem
You are given an array/list CHOCOLATES of size 'N', where each element represents the number of chocolates in a packet. Your task is to distribute these chocolates among 'M'...read more
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Distribute chocolates among students to minimize the difference between the largest and smallest number of chocolates.
• Sort the array of chocolates.

• Use sliding window technique to find the minimum difference between the largest and smallest number of chocolates.

• Return the minimum difference as the output.
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Another On-site ( DS & Algo) interview.

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Problem Statement: Minimize the Maximum
You are given an array of integers and an integer K. For each array element, you can adjust it by increasing or decreasing it by a value of K. Your goal is to minim...read more
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Given an array of integers and an integer K, minimize the difference between the maximum and minimum elements after adjusting each element by +/- K.
• Sort the array in non-decreasing order.

• For each element, calculate the difference between the current element and the next element.

• Adjust the element by adding or subtracting K to minimize the difference.

• Return the minimum possible difference between the maximum and minimum
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Round duration - 60 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

On-site ( DS & Algo) interview.
Google mainly focuses on logic and how you are coming with a solution. It notes down each and every small mistake. Interviewers are really very helpful. They expect clear code with an optimal approach.

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Farthest Distance From Lands Problem Statement
Given a binary square matrix 'ARR' with 'N' rows and 'N' columns, where '0' represents water and '1' represents land.
Determine the water cell whose distanc...read more
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Find the water cell farthest from land in a binary matrix using Manhattan distance.
• Iterate through the matrix to find all land cells and water cells

• Calculate the Manhattan distance of each water cell to the nearest land cell

• Return the maximum distance found
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Round duration - 90 minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Q1. 
Alien Dictionary Problem Statement
You are provided with a sorted dictionary (by lexical order) in an alien language. Your task is to determine the character order of the alien language from this dictiona...read more
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Given a sorted alien dictionary, determine the character order of the alien language.
• Create a graph data structure to represent the relationships between characters based on the given dictionary.

• Perform a topological sort on the graph to determine the character order of the alien language.

• Return the character array obtained from the topological sort as the final output.
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Shopping Spree Problem Statement
Preeti plans to shop for her father's birthday at a store with unlimited quantities of N different items. She has a budget that allows her to buy a maximum of K items. Hel...read more
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Calculate the number of ways Preeti can purchase items within budget, considering distinct ways.
• Use dynamic programming to calculate the number of ways to purchase items within budget

• Consider different scenarios where Preeti buys different quantities of each item

• Return the result modulo 10^9 + 7 to handle large answers
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Round duration - 60 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

Basic DBMS problems.

Round duration - 30 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

He asked basic Database and oops questions and discussion about my projects.

Round duration - 50 Minutes
Round difficulty - Easy

It was evening. Since it was a telephonic interview so all at the home. NOthing different. About my soft skills, resume, and some basic coding stuff. Why google? Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

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Count Ways to Reach the N-th Stair Problem Statement
You are provided with a number of stairs, and initially, you are located at the 0th stair. You need to reach the Nth stair, and you can climb one or tw...read more
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Count the number of distinct ways to climb to the Nth stair by climbing one or two steps at a time.
• Use dynamic programming to solve the problem efficiently.

• The number of ways to reach the Nth stair is the sum of the number of ways to reach the (N-1)th stair and the (N-2)th stair.

• Handle base cases where N=0 and N=1 separately.

• Apply modulo 10^9+7 to avoid overflow in the final result.
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