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      Software Engineer Interview

      Oct 25, 2017
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      New York, NY
      No offer
      Neutral experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through college or university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (New York, NY) in Sep 2017

      Interview

      As a new grad, I was asked for a hard question. I use DFS to solve it and write my thoughts on the paper. The interviewer was nice and he let me to answer him how to pass the parameters of the function as well as the condition of the end of the recursion. I show a little bit not confident when I answer the question but after all the answer is right, so I am still in the waiting list.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Find given words in the matrix. For example, the matrix = [ [a s d] [f g h] [j f v] ] and the words=['agfj','ah','vgj'] your aim is to find which words are appeared in the matrix. so words 'agfj' and 'vgj' is in the matrix.
      1 Answer
      1

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