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Microsoft Hard Coding Interview Questions (DSA)

The 9 hard DSA problems Microsoft has asked most in the last six months, most-asked first. Switch tabs to see the rest of the 50. Tick them off as you go.

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4.Median of Two Sorted Arrays
Full breakdownArrayBinary SearchDivide and Conquer
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2213.Longest Substring of One Repeating Character
Full breakdownArrayStringSegment Tree
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829.Consecutive Numbers Sum
Full breakdownMathEnumeration
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1335.Minimum Difficulty of a Job Schedule
Full breakdownArrayDynamic Programming
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2858.Minimum Edge Reversals So Every Node Is Reachable
Full breakdownDynamic ProgrammingDepth-First SearchBreadth-First Search
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76.Minimum Window Substring
Full breakdownHash TableStringSliding Window
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239.Sliding Window Maximum
Full breakdownArrayQueueSliding Window
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269.Alien Dictionary
Full breakdownArrayStringDepth-First Search
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84.Largest Rectangle in Histogram
Full breakdownArrayStackMonotonic Stack
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Microsoft has 9 hard coding questions out of 50 total. Hard problems are less common but can appear in senior-level interviews.

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