Microsoft Software Engineer Interview Questions

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Asked at Microsoft, Adobe, Amazon + 1 more • 2 years ago
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"Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Print all words from a dictionary that can be found on a given Boggle board.
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"public class BoggleBoard { public static List findWords(char board, Set dictionary) { int rows = board.length; int cols = board[0].length; boolean visited = new booleanrows; int directions = {{1,0}, {-1,0}, {0,1}, {0,-1}}; List result = new ArrayList(); for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) { for(int j=0; j<cols; j++) { dfs(board, visited, i, j, dictionary, "", result, dire"
Aniket G. - "public class BoggleBoard { public static List findWords(char board, Set dictionary) { int rows = board.length; int cols = board[0].length; boolean visited = new booleanrows; int directions = {{1,0}, {-1,0}, {0,1}, {0,-1}}; List result = new ArrayList(); for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) { for(int j=0; j<cols; j++) { dfs(board, visited, i, j, dictionary, "", result, dire"See full answer
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Asked at Microsoft • 3 months ago
Given a binary tree, find the shortest path from the root to a leaf.
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Asked at Microsoft • 3 months ago
Implement a method to convert an integer to a string of bytes without using built-in helper functions.
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Coding
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Coding
Asked at Microsoft • 5 years ago
What are the key concepts and operations associated with trees?
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Asked at Microsoft • 9 months ago
Tell me about a project where you had to teach yourself something new to solve a problem or complete a task.
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Product Marketing Manager
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