Microsoft | SDE2 | ODSP | Rejected | 4 YoE

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SDE II4 years
July 27, 20253 reads

Summary

I experienced a rejection for an SDE2 role at Microsoft ODSP after two rounds of technical interviews. The interviews focused on Data Structures and Algorithms, where I was able to provide optimized solutions for some problems but struggled with others, leading to the rejection.

Full Experience

I was a part of Microsoft ODSP hiring drive in June. Below is my interview experience.

R1 (DSA): https://leetcode.com/problems/candy/description/

Was able to come up with O(n2) solution. Interviewer expected O(n).
The interviewer joined almost 15mins late but didn't gave extra time for the lost time.

R2 (DSA):

Q1. https://leetcode.com/problems/insert-delete-getrandom-o1/description/
Q2. https://leetcode.com/problems/design-browser-history/description/

For first question was able to give the optimized solution but for second question couldn't come up with the expected solution.

Status: Rejected.

Interview Questions (3)

Q1
Candy
Data Structures & Algorithms

The problem statement is available at the provided LeetCode link.

Q2
Insert Delete GetRandom O(1)
Data Structures & Algorithms

The problem statement is available at the provided LeetCode link.

Q3
Design Browser History
Data Structures & Algorithms

The problem statement is available at the provided LeetCode link.

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