Microsoft Interview Questions

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What to expect at Microsoft Interview?

Be able to discuss the big-O complexity of your approaches. Don't forget to brush up on your data structures like lists, arrays, hash tables, hash maps, stacks, queues, graphs, trees, heaps. Also sorts, searches, and traversals(BFS, DFS). Also review recursion and iterative approaches.

Use the programming language you're best at. It's important to write your solution correctly and in time, so use the language you are most familiar with.
Find and fix the bugs by yourself: Don't wait for the interviewer to find them for you.
Use the hints you are given: Usually, the interviewer knows the question well enough to know which hints will help you next if you get stuck.

Solve Interview Problems asked at Microsoft

Majority Element

Given an array of size n, find the majority element. The majority element is the element that appears more than floor(n/2) times. You may assume that ...

Distribute Candy

There are N children standing in a line. Each child is assigned a rating value. You are giving candies to these children subjected to the following...

Longest Increasing Subsequence

Find the longest increasing subsequence of a given sequence / array. In other words, find a subsequence of array in which the subsequence’s elements a...

Max Rectangle in Binary Matrix

Given a 2D binary matrix filled with 0’s and 1’s, find the largest rectangle containing all ones and return its area. Bonus if you can solve it in O(n...

Max Product Subarray

Find the contiguous subarray within an array (containing at least one number) which has the largest product. Return an integer corresponding to the max...

Regular Expression Match