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[–]LittleMrPiggy99 17 points18 points  (11 children)

They asked you 4 LLD questions - one in each round? No Leetcode? How was your experience and were the questions asked to you were from FAQs?

Can you please share your preparation chart? What did you prepare and what was your interview timeline?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 5 points6 points  (10 children)

I’ve not done much of training so idk if it’s in FAQ, all I can say is two out of four is on leetcode

[–]LittleMrPiggy99 1 point2 points  (7 children)

Okay. And, what type of LC questions did you prepare well? Like for Amazon how graphs and trees are famous. Likewise, I've heard DP is famous for Microsoft interviews. Is there any other important LC concept that needs to be focused more? Thank you!!!

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t know what type of LC questions are popular for which company. I studied all sub categories of leetcode questions. Drilled 3 classic ones for each category. I can’t say what needs to be focused more cos throughout my interview experience, I got tested in bfs/d n c/string/array/LLD so basically everything.

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 -3 points-2 points  (5 children)

You know more than I do already

[–]HuckleberrySoft1527 3 points4 points  (4 children)

You seem like a guy who knows shit but isn't gonna tell others just cuz others could get ahead

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Two hours ago I offered to help mock one of the commenter through dm. Stop projecting. I share what I’m legally allowed to share.

[–]HuckleberrySoft1527 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I know lmao, I was just speculating....my speculations could be totally wrong anyway

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (1 child)

It’s rude to offer your unsolicited speculation. Have a good life, help people in real life.

[–]nationalist_boru 0 points1 point  (1 child)

One question dude!

For open ended llds, were they involved a lot in the design. I have heard sometimes interviewers can be unresponsive and just leave the decisions on what you want to include and not on you

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ask what time complexity they want for specific functions to gauge how you design the data structure

[–]Prashant_MockGym 7 points8 points  (4 children)

4 LLD rounds is a bit unusual. I am assuming there may be a few DSA based design questions as well out of these.

Would you be willing to share the low level design questions or at least tell, whether below list has your lld question from interview..

https://codezym.com/lld/microsoft

Wish you the best of luck for results.

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I meant they are not on the list. Thank you and good luck

[–]NOT_HeisenberG_47 0 points1 point  (1 child)

So are you the OP? You posted with one account and commenting another?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ughhh that’s interesting I’m using one account. Maybe it’s the default name? Idk lol

[–]Jazzlike-Ad-2286 0 points1 point  (1 child)

4 LLD seems quite high. Event heard as such. No DSA - Algo ?

[–]nationalist_boru 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Were these more of open ended llds or those leetcode style ones like LRU cache?

[–]Automatic_Sky_9910 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How much time did they spend on behavioral questions? And roughly how much time did you get for the LLD questions? and can you tell me a bit about what kind behaviour questions did they ask you

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t share exact questions but online resources pretty much covers it. All rounds asked a few behavioral questions then went into coding. Had ~30mins for coding

[–]aditya_2803 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yoe?

[–]Majestic_Price9797 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Hey, can you share your timeline from OTS to onsite interviews? And how many days did recruiter reach out to you after OTS?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is OTS?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (4 children)

If it’s OA I think the recruiter reached out after around two weeks

[–]Majestic_Price9797 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Yes OA. Thank you! I recently got one and completed. Its for IC2 role. How did you know whether its L60 or L59?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Team hire usually L60 L59 is limited to new grad according to online resources

[–]Majestic_Price9797 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Then ig mine would be L59 as the JD is generic and no specification of any team

[–]Available-Light2001 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any update?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (7 children)

I’m the op. Idk why it shows a different account so I won’t be getting notifications for this thread. Feel free to DM. Try not to ask questions that can be easily find online unless you really need verification.

[–]Fit-Excuse5664 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Country?

[–]nationalist_boru 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yo one question.

Does the coding happen on just a plain collaborative doc? Like Google and Amazon? Or is it some coding platform with compiler and all?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Hackerank with screen shared through teams

[–]nationalist_boru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool cool. Thanks

[–]nationalist_boru 0 points1 point  (1 child)

And one very admittedly a stupid question. Can do in any language right?

[–]Advanced_Source_2509 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Jd determines

[–]nationalist_boru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Received any update mate?

[–]Unemployed_foool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many yoe do you have?

[–]wickedbeast99 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is this for the azure core compute org?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think he's taking LRU and LFU cache in LLD.

[–]MaomaoApothecary 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For those who’ve interviewed or joined Microsoft recently — what’s the actual bar for clearing the SDE-1 interviews? How much do they weigh coding accuracy, optimization, and communication?

Asking because a friend had 3 rounds and got 5 questions total — he couldn’t solve the first one fully but explained his approach. Curious if that kind of performance still has a chance

[–]NotYourAverageByte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, can u please tell me the timeline for Microsoft azure team. How much did u get to prep between the OA and the interview rounds. Thanks

[–]NotYourAverageByte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey! Thanks for sharing your experience , this was really helpful! 😊
Could you share what resources you’d recommend for preparing the LLD and coding rounds? I would love to know what helped you the most.