
Microsoft AI coding interview
Round 1 of 4 · 8 questions reported
- Format
- Live coding
- They grade
- Working code on practical problems
- Heads-up
- Questions reported for Microsoft AI lean practical: beam search decoding for a language model, an in-memory database, merging sorted arrays, rebuilding a string from chained pieces.
Questions Microsoft AI asks in this round 8
- Anthropic OA: leveled in-memory record store
- Count the maximum in each queried suffix
- Greedy and beam search decoding for a language model
- Merge two sorted arrays into distinct values
- Reconstruct a string from chained segments
- Top k largest elements
- Truncate model output at the first stop sequence
- Typed task lock for mutually exclusive job types
About the Microsoft AI coding round
What does Microsoft AI ask in the coding round?
The most asked: Anthropic OA: leveled in-memory record store, Count the maximum in each queried suffix and Greedy and beam search decoding for a language model. 8 questions reported in all.
What is the Microsoft AI coding round like?
Live coding. They grade: Working code on practical problems.