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      Software Engineer Interview

      10 Mar 2018
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Redmond, WA
      Declined offer
      Negative experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through a recruiter. The process took 4 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Aug 2017

      Interview

      The recruiter approached me for a position with Azure group (a recruitment event). I got online screening test & after that was scheduled to appear for the on-site interview. Very next day of the on-site interview, I heard the decision that is I am going to get an offer. The process from the initial phone with HR till the hearing decision of on-site interview was really smooth. But after that, the process was really terrible. The HR person, who was supposed to go over offer details. did not contact for another month, regardless of continuous follow-up. Not a single reply to email. Really unprofessional!. After a month, when I talked to this HR person, he said there was no approval for the rec, which is really surprising, but still, 1-2 updates on the process giving you an insight of whats going on, would have helped a lot. Later on, I rejected the offer. Please make sure what all team/job profiles are involved in such recruiting events.

      Interview questions [4]

      Question 1

      Connect all leaves of binary tree by using right pointer
      Answer question

      Question 2

      Implement pow(x,y)
      1 Answer

      Question 3

      given a string & all possible character mappings, print all unique strings formed by replacing characters in string by char from its mapping. string: abc mapping: a ->(t,r), b ->(u,i) so print tbc, rbc, auc, ....
      Answer question

      Question 4

      and few leetcode easy questions, which I don't remember
      Answer question
      1

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