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      Software Engineer New Grad Interview

      20 Mar 2020
      Anonymous employee
      Seattle, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. I interviewed at Microsoft (Seattle, WA) in Nov 2019

      Interview

      1. Applied online in July 2019 2. Contacted for Phone Screen with HR in August 2019 3. Onsite in Seattle in November 2019: 4 back to back white board coding interviews, 45 min each

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Write the merge function for merge sort.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      You have a log containing error logs from all different hardware at startup, made of hardware ID and error information. It contains multiple error logs for devices that try again. Write a method to remove the duplicates while keeping the first occurrence of the errors and all errors in the same relative order.
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      How would you manage heap memory for a process to do malloc and free?
      Answer question

      Question 4

      You have a list of tasks to do, where some tasks depend on others. You have methods to 1. Get all tasks this task depends on 2. Get all tasks that depend on this task 3. Get time taken by this task. Write a method to give a valid ordering of tasks. Follow up- Write a method to find minimum time taken to finish all tasks if you can do infinite number of tasks in parallel.
      1 Answer
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