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100 interview questions from past Microsoft candidates

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Company question insights and frequency breakdown

Total Questions

100

Very Common

0

Categories

16

Reports

897

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Question Categories

Arrays & Hashing (18)
Fundamentals (13)
Databases (10)
Stacks & Queues (7)
Dynamic Programming (7)
Problem Solving (7)
Trees & Graphs (6)
Leadership (6)
Communication (6)
Node.js & APIs (4)
React (4)
JavaScript & TypeScript (3)
Sorting & Searching (3)
CSS & Styling (2)
Message Queues (2)
Linked Lists (2)

Common Questions
100

Regularly reported by candidates

BFS Data Structure

Trees & Graphs
easy
10 reports
mcq

Z-Index Stacking Contexts

CSS & Styling
hard
5 reports
mcq

Stripe: RESTful Resource Modeling

Node.js & APIs
medium
5 reports
mcq

Netflix: Multi-Region Failover

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: MERGE Operation

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
mcq

useEffect Empty Dependency Array

React
medium
5 reports
fill blank

Bloomberg: Order Book Management

Stacks & Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Palantir: Federated Data Architecture

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Subarray Product Problem

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Consistent Hashing for Partitioning

Arrays & Hashing
hard
10 reports
mcq

JavaScript Symbols

JavaScript & TypeScript
medium
5 reports
fill blank

Generators and Iterators

JavaScript & TypeScript
hard
5 reports
mcq

Greedy: When It Fails

Sorting & Searching
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Transaction Processing Order

Message Queues
hard
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Search and Discovery

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

House Robber II

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
coding

Leading Without Authority

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

Climbing Stairs

Dynamic Programming
easy
10 reports
coding

Two Pointers: When to Use

Arrays & Hashing
easy
10 reports
mcq

Amazon LP: Identify Earn Trust

Communication
hard
8 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Handling Delivery Failures

Problem Solving
medium
8 reports
mcq

Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation

Stacks & Queues
medium
10 reports
coding

Coinbase: Transaction History at Scale

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Wallet Balance Tracking

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Database: ACID vs BASE

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Merge Intervals

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
coding

Spotify: Transparency in Decision Making

Communication
medium
8 reports
mcq

Middleware Patterns in Node.js

Node.js & APIs
easy
5 reports
mcq

Debug a production memory leak

Problem Solving
hard
8 reports
verbal

Uber: Shortest Path with Traffic

Trees & Graphs
hard
10 reports
mcq

Consistency Model for Messaging Systems

Databases
hard
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Incremental Processing

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Remove Duplicates from Sorted List

Linked Lists
easy
10 reports
coding

Robinhood: Decimal Precision

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data-Driven Decisions

Problem Solving
medium
8 reports
mcq

DP State Reduction

Dynamic Programming
hard
10 reports
mcq

Kth Largest Element in an Array

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
coding

Google: DP vs Greedy

Dynamic Programming
medium
10 reports
mcq

LinkedIn: Customer Empathy in Product Decisions

Communication
medium
8 reports
mcq

Bipartite Graph Chromatic Number

Trees & Graphs
hard
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Photo Upload at Scale

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

What does ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY dept ORDER BY salary DESC) do?

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

LinkedIn: Feed Generation Strategy

Arrays & Hashing
hard
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Handling Customer Escalations

Communication
medium
8 reports
mcq

Robinhood: Payment for Order Flow

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Instagram Story Architecture

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Trade-off Decisions

Problem Solving
hard
8 reports
mcq

Spotify: Play Queue Management

Stacks & Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Trust and Transparency with Users

Communication
medium
8 reports
mcq

Netflix: No Brilliant Jerks

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Tesla: Battery Pack Cell Configuration

Dynamic Programming
hard
10 reports
mcq

Palantir: Ontology-Driven Data Integration

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Intervals: Merge Overlapping

Sorting & Searching
medium
10 reports
mcq

Encode and Decode Strings

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
coding

Databricks: Handling Ambiguity

Problem Solving
medium
8 reports
mcq

useDeferredValue Hook

React
hard
5 reports
mcq

Heapsort Complexity

Stacks & Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Data Skipping

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

Salesforce: Multi-Tenant Architecture Basics

Fundamentals
easy
10 reports
mcq

K-Way Merge with Heap

Stacks & Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

TikTok: Bloom Filter for Seen Content

Arrays & Hashing
hard
10 reports
mcq

Netflix: Owning Outcomes

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

Node.js Child Processes

Node.js & APIs
medium
5 reports
mcq

Node.js Error Handling Patterns

Node.js & APIs
easy
5 reports
mcq

Apple: Memory Constraints

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Event Sourcing

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Batch Transaction Processing

Arrays & Hashing
hard
10 reports
mcq

Giving Difficult Feedback

Communication
hard
8 reports
mcq

Spotify: Skip List for Playlist Index

Linked Lists
hard
10 reports
mcq

Sliding Window: Problem Recognition

Arrays & Hashing
easy
10 reports
mcq

Databricks: Unity Catalog

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Debug a database deadlock issue

Databases
hard
10 reports
verbal

Product of Array Except Self

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
coding

DP: Memoization vs Tabulation

Dynamic Programming
medium
10 reports
mcq

Meta: Two Pointer Pattern Recognition

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
mcq

Salesforce: Shared Nothing vs Shared Everything

Fundamentals
hard
10 reports
mcq

Custom Hooks Composition

React
easy
5 reports
mcq

Microsoft: Tree Traversal Order

Trees & Graphs
medium
10 reports
mcq

Anthropic: Empirical Safety Research

Problem Solving
medium
8 reports
mcq

Airbnb: React Component Re-rendering

React
medium
5 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Atomic Transaction Processing

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
mcq

Coinbase: Portfolio Tracking Dashboard

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Receiving Difficult Feedback

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

DP: 0/1 Knapsack Pattern

Dynamic Programming
medium
10 reports
mcq

Netflix: Event-Driven Architecture

Message Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

TypeScript Type Erasure

JavaScript & TypeScript
medium
5 reports
fill blank

Airbnb: Availability Calendar

Sorting & Searching
medium
10 reports
mcq

Container With Most Water

Arrays & Hashing
medium
10 reports
coding

Graph: Cycle Detection

Trees & Graphs
medium
10 reports
mcq

Difficult Team Member

Leadership
hard
8 reports
mcq

Coin Change

Dynamic Programming
medium
10 reports
coding

Stripe: Idempotency Keys

Fundamentals
medium
10 reports
mcq

Heap Insert Complexity

Stacks & Queues
medium
10 reports
mcq

DoorDash: Initiative Beyond Role

Leadership
medium
8 reports
mcq

Heapify Time Complexity

Stacks & Queues
hard
10 reports
mcq

Twitter Tweet Storage: Database Choice

Databases
medium
10 reports
mcq

CSS: Flexbox Centering

CSS & Styling
easy
5 reports
mcq

BFS vs DFS: When to Use BFS

Trees & Graphs
easy
10 reports
mcq

Google: Coding Without IDE

Problem Solving
medium
8 reports
mcq

Merge Sorted Array

Arrays & Hashing
easy
10 reports
coding

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