SDE at Microsoft #2

Name: Tanishq Kishnani

Department: Industrial and Systems Engineering

Company: Microsoft

Profile: SDE

When did you start your profile oriented preparation?:

15/04/2020

What was your prior experience and level of preparation(in the field) before the month of March?

I took PDS lab and theory courses in my semester-01 just like others. Then I had done an internship in the same profile which already gave me an idea of the profile. This gave me an edge too.

The roadmap that you followed while preparing?

I did a course on Data Structures and Algorithms offered by Demux(a startup company). Then I practiced questions from the interviewbit as it had all the necessary topics are well bucketed.

Resources relevant to the profile:

Practice on

Leetcode

Interviewbit

Preparing for all topics has an edge because then you can have ease in coding for the coding tests.

Links to any projects :

I didn’t do any project.

What was the selection process of the company?

Coding test: 3 questions, 90 minutes. Medium level difficulty

In all rounds, you have to code properly with indentation variable names and if necessary comments, but need not run the code, just open any editor.

Interview 1: 1 easy and 1 medium level question. More focus on Binary Search Trees.

Interview 2: 1 difficult question. Then basic CV questions.

Interview 3: 1 slightly different question, but can be done using some common sense and coding knowledge. Basic HR questions.