I had an on-campus interview at my university, where the interviewer focused on design issues and basic algorithmic questions. I can recall a couple of questions: how to determine if two circles intersect, and how a server should behave if it has to crash (perhaps gracefully) and then come back up.

My on-site interview was scheduled after a month's wait. I had to schedule it for the following month since they had no available slots. December-January is likely the holiday season!

The on-site interview consisted of five rounds:

• The first two involved coding and then coming up with as many test cases as possible for that code to achieve maximum coverage.
• The third was a lunch interview with the test lead and was very casual, mostly involving chatting about the interviewer's experience with Microsoft so far and many questions about my projects and internship.
• The fourth, with another test lead, was tougher and entirely testing-oriented. I had to fix a piece of code he wrote on the board and then provide many test cases for that code. There was also a very interesting question about how to test a map. He gave me an upside-down map, and we discussed whether it was valid (it was an Australian classroom map and, therefore, valid).
• The fifth interviewer was the test manager, and we had a great time classifying test cases for testing the find function on Notepad.

At the end, he told me I had the job. I had requested an expedited answer since I had another offer pending.

How would you test a map?

How would you test the find function on Notepad?

WAP to check if strings are anagrams or not.