Problem 1 — CICD Pipeline Dependency Ordering CICD Pipeline:- Different environments.- If nothing is in prod theDatamine the order in which we should deploy our resources. Questions:1. What are the inputs? [A,B] where A and B are resources. A depends on B – list of lists where each inner list is a dependency pair and…

This Microsoft interview problem focuses on weighted random selection. Given cities and their populations, the function should return a city name with probability proportional to its population. A common solution uses a prefix-sum array and binary search to map a random number to the correct weighted interval. The VOprep team has long accompanied candidates through various major…

There are 2 single linked list, one is ascending sorted, the other is descending sorted, write code to merge them together, result in ascending sorted. For example:L1: 1->2->3L2: 6->5->4 Result:1->2->3->4->5->6 Requirements:Time complexity: O(M + N), M is the length of L1, and N is the length of L2Space complexity: O(1) Please write code to solve…

Problem 1 Imagine you’re working on a language which only support Stack, but you need a Queue functionality to fulfill the requirement. Problem 2 Given:const a = 1;const b = ‘1’;What is the result of each of the following statements: a == ba === b!a === !ba + ba + +b These are typical Microsoft…

Recently, Microsoft interview activity has noticeably increased again. One thing that has always been true about Microsoft is that interview content heavily depends on the team — different teams test very different skills. This time, all three of my rounds followed the pattern of resume deep-dive + coding questions, with no system design and no…

Amazon SDE Intern Interview Experience — One Round to Decide Everything Amazon has started sending out OA invitations again recently. Over the past few weeks I helped several friends go through the process — and everything remains much the same as last year: OA format unchanged, interview setup consistent, and question types stable. Although the…

I recently had my on-site with Google and wanted to put together a clean, realistic walkthrough for anyone preparing. On-site write-ups are surprisingly rare, so hopefully this fills the gap. 🛫 Arriving at Google Google arranged the travel and hotel, so I flew in the day before. On interview day I showed up a bit…

Flight Booking (Python) This exercise provides a basic Python HTTP server used to track flight tickets and their prices.Your interviewer will explain the question; the README only contains usage hints.The main libraries include Flask (HTTP server) and psycopg2 (PostgreSQL client). Getting Started To start the database: Then, in another terminal: If psycopg2-binary fails to install,…

Problem 1 — Ticket Reservation API Design Codewriting How do you design the API/backend for a ticket reservation app?Examples include movie tickets or concert tickets.The app should allow users to hold their ticket(s) for 10 minutes before booking. Problem 2 — Third-Party Airline Booking APIs 3-party APIs Suppose we want to design an automated flight-booking…

📌 Problem Statement Imagine you have an RPC server that produces log entries and we’re analyzing it offline.There are two entries for each call: Your task is to efficiently determine if any RPC in the log timed out. You can assume your function receives two arguments: Example Input timeout: Input log: ID Timestamp Event Type…