It starts with meeting a recruiter at a campus job fair, where you have around two to five minutes to tell them about yourself and impress them. They might also ask technical questions right there. I remember being asked, "How would you test this pen for quality?"

If they like you, you get an email saying you will be scheduled for an interview on campus. I waited about two weeks before my interview.

On interview day, I met one of the team leads from Microsoft in a room for a one-on-one interview. I introduced myself, discussed my resume, and he asked me about my classes. Then, he asked me to solve one programming task. After that, he asked me to test the function I had just written for quality.

Write a function in C that takes a pointer to a string as its input, reverses the string, and returns a pointer to the reversed string.

Test the string reversal function.

Can you break it?