SDE 2 at Microsoft

How it went

What they would tell you

How to prepare

Their background

Round by round

1. 1

   Online Assessment60 min

   Two medium-level questions based on recursion and strings

2. 2

   Coding Round 160 min

   Approach:

   • I started with the brute-force approach to consider all subarrays
   • Then discussed optimized dynamic programming approach, maintaining maximum and minimum product at each index
   • Explained edge cases such as arrays with zeros and negative numbers
   • Maximum Product Subarray in an Array
3. 3

   Low Level Design 160 min

   During the interview, I was asked to design a smart parking garage system

   • Clarified requirements: multiple floors, vehicle types, dynamic pricing, and automated entry/exit
   • Designed classes: Vehicle, Floor, Ticket, PaymentSystem
   • Implemented strategies for calculating parking fees and handling priority vehicles
4. 4

   Low Level Design 260 min

   Design a Multiplayer Board Game Platform Interviewer asked:

   • How to implement AI vs Human players
   • How to handle turn management, game state, and undo/redo functionality
5. 5

   Coding Round 260 min

   Do not recall the exact problem

6. 6

   HM round60 min

   Multiple behavioral questions around leadership, teamwork, and ownership then current and past projects, challenges faced, and technical decisions made The round concluded with a DSA problem best time to buy and sell stock with cooldown

   • Best time to buy and sell stock

What came up