Microsoft | Hiring Drive | June 7

YOE ~6
Current experience: MNC (Previously worked at Microsoft)

Still awaiting feedback from the recruiter. Shows in interview stage on the portal.
Not responding on mails, number not reachable, not responding with any feedback via Microsoft internal employees as well.

Had a hiring drive for Azure Storage team on June 7.

3 Technical Rounds on the same day (with a gap of 15 mins between the interviews)

Round 1 : DS/Algo

Started with introduction around projects. Most important contribution till now and few follow ups on the projects.

Was asked a question on Graph.

There is a MxN matrix, where few cells are marked as 0 and others are marked with integers 1-9. There is a given starting point in the matrix. A person cannot reach the cells marked as 0. The cost of reaching a cell is the number marked for the cell. Find the minimun cost to get out of the maze (To any reachable point on the boundry of the maze)

Wasnt able to fully solve the question.

Round 2: DS/ Algo

Questions around current work experience, Virtual Memory.

https://leetcode.com/problems/search-in-rotated-sorted-array/description/

Interview completed in 45 minutes. Was able to complete the interviewer questions and the above problem in 45 minutes.

Round 3: HLD+LLD

Started with brief around current project and its architecture.

Design a Message Broker.
Question around how the subscriber will publish messages, Which DB to be used, Structure of the tables/documents, Basic Interfaces that can be created

Interview extended for 90 Minutes.