Software Engineering Interview Experience - Bhubaneshwar, India
Process
Online coding test on Mettle, followed by on-site rounds.
Round 1: Fly-round - Pen and paper based round with half the candidates eliminated. Round 2, 3: Personal interview. Round 4: HR interview + tech.
Questions
In the fly round, everyone was given a common question to be done on pen and paper, along with test cases and explanations.
The question: Given a 2D matrix where each element appears at most once in a row, find out whether the matrix has one common element in each row or not. It is guaranteed that there is not more than one common element in every row, if such an element exists.
In the 1st 1:1 interview, the following topics were discussed:
- Resume review
- Alternate approaches to the fly round question
- Concepts of OOP
- How to build a recommender system
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Success Rate
Microsoft's interview process for their Software Engineering roles in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha is extremely selective, failing the vast majority of engineers.
Experience Rating
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