Microsoft L61 - SE - HackerRank Live Coding
Summary
I attempted a live coding round for a Software Engineer position at Microsoft, worked on the Alien Dictionary problem for about 45 minutes, could not solve it, and was rejected after this single round.
Full Experience
Got this question - Alien dictionary in Hacker Rank live coding round : https://leetcode.com/problems/alien-dictionary/description/
The interviewer was nice and I had around 45 mins to do this. 10-15 mins went into intro and project discussion.
I was not able to solve it. That was the only round I had. I got rejected after that.
Total experience - 4 years. Microsoft L61 - SE.
All the best to everyone who is preparing.
Interview Questions (1)
Alien Dictionary
Given a list of words sorted lexicographically according to an alien language, determine the order of characters in the alien alphabet.