Online Assessment

Two Renamed LeetCode Problems in a 75-Minute OA

MicrosoftSoftware Engineer · Online Assessment · Aug 2026

Both questions were renamed versions of existing LeetCode problems. Neither was particularly difficult overall; if you're quick with implementation and edge cases, you can finish within 30 minutes: Q1: Count Binary Substrings LeetCode problem: LC 696, Count Binary Substrings (Easy). Topics: Two pointers / counting adjacent runs, or run-length encoding. Approach: Count the lengths of consecutive r…

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