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- 2015-10-09 7:15 PM - 8:45 PM @ DC Library Study Room B
- Remote interview via Skype
- Two 45 minutes back to back
- Interview 1: Interviewed by Ryogo K., engineer (?). Skype call.
- Non-technical Questions:
- Why do you want to work for Microsoft and in Japan?
- Coding Questions:
- Given an array of integers, output the bar graph. May include restrictions of your choice.
- Post-mortem: (i) For loop exit condition should be n-1 and not n. (ii) Loop invariants in general.
- Given an array of integers, output the bar graph. May include restrictions of your choice.
- Q&A:
- Q: What are some project / positions?
- A: docs.com, Sway, Office Lens
- Non-technical Questions:
- Interview 2: Interviewed by Jerry Turner (?) manager (?). Skype video.
- Talked about Microsoft Japan, company culture, recent projects.
- Non-technical Questions:
- Why are you interested in Japan?
- What are my interests? (algorithms, web ui, mobile, etc, cloud)
- Asked about previous work terms. (Was UI Engineering webdev or mobile)
- Said I have really good grades. (me: wot)
- How good my Japanese is, followed directly by have I been to Japan. (so didn't really answer the former)
- Coding Questions:
- RLE: Run length encoding. Colors represented by 1 byte. Encoding: color (1 byte), followed by count.
- e.g. 7 7 7 4 7 7 returns 7, 3, 4, 1, 7, 2.
- Post-mortem: (i) Array or vector should contain elements of type "byte" and not integer. (ii) Count of color may overflow.
- RLE: Run length encoding. Colors represented by 1 byte. Encoding: color (1 byte), followed by count.
- Q&A:
- Q: (pre-interview interview part, if you will) How did you find out about Waterloo co-op program?
- A: Waterloo alumni with Masters from Stanford went to start his own startup but ran out of funds so asked if Microsoft Japan could take a few in.
- Ran out of time so shared WKRPT200 and unfinished mars-girl website. Approved of my use of OneDrive. Recommended docs.com as well.
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