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      Senior Software Engineer Interview

      11 Aug 2015
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Research Triangle Park, NC
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 5 days. I interviewed at Microsoft (Research Triangle Park, NC) in Feb 2015

      Interview

      It was an entire day meeting with managers from a variety of teams. The interview was quite grueling, but fair. They are extremely focused on ensuring that they hire top talent, so they understandably want to be thorough about it. Be prepared to do a LOT of whiteboard coding. You need to be able to explain performance characteristics, code testability, feasibility of algorithms in a production environment, etc. There will be quite a lot of conversation about CS fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms. Strongly recommend pulling out some college textbooks or going through some interview preparation material if you don't feel confident about these things. Some of the problems are designed to be almost impossible to solve in the time provided - they are more interested in seeing your thought process, so don't get too frustrated during the process.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Implement a queue in any language backed by an array. Explain how to test.
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Implement a linked list. Now implement a method to reverse the elements of a linked list.
      2 Answers

      Question 3

      Implement a method to parse a string into an integer. Detect overflow.
      1 Answer
      2

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