There were no trap questions. A lot of scenario questions: What will you do in this case? How do you handle that? A lot of question about my motivation, my expectation, my personality. On the technical interview, there was an exercise on designing a scalable system.
When can you move into the role?
General questions from MS online library
On heap and stack On database architecture
What kind of manager do I see myself as in Rightmove
What has been the most difficult assignment in your career so far? Tell me about a time you sought out and solved a challenging technical problem? Give an example of an idea that you gave that lead to improvement within your organization. Tell me about a failure and what you learned from it. What is one thing your currently working on improving? Why Microsoft?
Not verbatim but needed to use sort + greedy algorithm in 1, recursion + DP, other was easy type leet code. Plus optimization.
How buffer overflow works
It wouldn't be fair to put those out here. The technical brainstorming and the assessments given aren't rocket science. If you are someone who is detail oriented, curious, go over and above your call of duty then such things aren't tough to do. These question(s) do require you to make an effort to solving the problem holistically. If you can't solve the technical assessment in some reasonable way then even if you get selected you will not be able to perform in the actual job function.
Why Apple? (almost every interview)
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