Microsoft

I got the invitation link, completed and passed every test case successfully, but surprisingly received a rejection the following week without any clear explanation, even though my performance met all expectations.

It was a first-round phone interview. The interviewer was nice and asked several behavioral questions, diving deep into my project. She asked me a very easy array question, but since it was my first software engineer interview, I was very nervous and

The phone interview took just 15 minutes. There were general questions: * What is context? * What is context switching? * What is a critical section? * What are threads? Some questions were about sorting algorithms and binary search trees. There w