My MS Interview

5th Feb 2010

Its my dream day of my life..
For every single moment of pain..For every single second of effort ....For every single thought of mine ...For every single step in my world...
This was the day...
Yes it was MICROSOFT in my campus...
During the last few months i thought this is not going to happen in our campus...
But i thank my college and the team atleast to give us a chance to prove ourself...
I wanted to break the suspence first itself to my readers...
:( :( :(
Hope u will understand...
Yes I dint get through...:(
But i learnt sumthing today...
"I NEED TO GET THE SPEED OF RABBIT WITH TORTOISE'S SPEED TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE"
A small modification to "Slow and steady wins the race"...:(

But still i wanted to post this day of mine...
May be for someone in future it will be usefull for them to learn from my MISTAKE

So here is my day...UNLUCKY DAY..:(

Location : Tirupur
Time :Morning 5:30
(I couldn't sleep all my night because something big which i thought wont happen is going to happen the next day)

So done my preparation and started out to my college to coimbatore by 6.15
(A hell dark morning ...no other go i need to step out because its not just today..its nearly goning to be 4 yrs that i started like this 1.30 hrs of travel to my college)

And the very special thing about today in our city was ...
There was a huge accident on National Highway..A fully loaded gas truck met an accident and the full Highway was blocked so this time i have to travel through a differnt risky route..
(**Tamil: Ennaku nu ellam nadakuthulla..:) simply called fate..**)

And yeah i reached my college by 7:30...
PPT was announced to be started by 7.45..
MS people were here in campus by 8.10..
PPT was about more than an hour time (actually i dont know how my seconds were flying)

And yes the written started and was about 45 min and 4 questions and here it is

1) One was a recursive function and we were asked to find the output of the function calls..
2) Merging of two sorted singly linkedlist..
3) Given a program i need to find the output and the operation for what its used..
4) Design of application store..

So it was 10.30 and i was chatting with my friends then asusual messages..
I should definetly thank my friend preethi...she was really encouraging me that time...
And then the results were out by 12.30 i suppose..
Now 11 were shortlisted and was happy to find my name there in that list...

Then sharp 2 pm interview round started ..

Round 1:
Mering of two sorted array...With a special case...
Actually all of us who aere shortlisted thought of different ideas and we were proceeding with our own clicks but then one of the team guy gave us a clue for solving it ...
It was nice and i did it...
I was sure i will get through to my next..(with a little fear because its MS anything might happen)
And yeah i was through it...

Round 2:
It started well , i was really relaxed...
I had 3 questions in this round..
1) A few discussions regarding virtual memory...
2) Coding with lots of test cases for string reversal of a given sentence..
3) Algorithm to perform File Compression with very small ~ zero space...
Actually the last question was going to decide if am qualified to move to the next round...
I started with tree to linklist then back to a logic within the source file with a big process...and finally yeah i felt i made him feel what he wants a perfect logic to do that with no extra data structure..compression within the source file..

Warning :Herecomes the HR with a warning statement for me...
She said she is hearing negative feedbacks ( I was really shocked because i know i did right )
She asked me to stay cool (may be i was lookin nervous for them...but i turned nervous only after hearing this)
I thought i am chucked..but then they gave me a next chance to 3rd round...

Round 3:
I dint know this round is going to break all my dreams...
With my HR's feedback in my mind..
I entered my cabin ...
I was asked to develope a code to perform MS Excel problem of string to date conversion with all the test cases specified...
I felt i did it right to the satisfaction of my interviewer...
I was taken to the general conference room where we were waiting for my other friends..
It was 8.30 pm and my HR was like u have to travel more than an hour na so u may leave...
yeah am CHUCKED

Its al the end of my day ..travelling through a dark night...only gal in my bus...loaded with crashed dreams in my heart...

End of my day + End of my chance

Special Thanks my dear friend Aishu ..

I WISH I GET THIS DAY BACK...:(