Software Development Engineer Intern Interview Experience - São Paulo, Brazil
Process
A recruiter contacted me after I submitted my resume during a campus presentation. They then scheduled an interview for the end of the month at a hotel in my town.
The interview was short. Initially, we talked for about ten minutes about topics such as: why I would like to work at Microsoft, previous experiences, and which position I thought I'd fit better.
The interviewer was nice and made me very comfortable. Then, they took me to a whiteboard and asked me to code an API to deal with two classes: Activity and Resource. An activity could use many resources, and I had to save these objects and manipulate them with simple operations like insertion and deletion.
Nothing too hard, but it required knowledge of exceptions, threads, and dangling references, among other things.
Questions
How to save resource IDs used by an activity and access them in O(1), assuming there could be an infinite number of resources?
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