The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023) | Hacker News

A Hacker News post revived four programming questions from a 1994 Microsoft internship interview.

Discussion focused on the flood-fill color check and circle-drawing problem, with solutions using lookup tables, bitmasking, symmetry, and Bresenham-style algorithms.

Commenters also clarified the older graphics constraints, including indexed color, CGA-style memory limits, and the avoidance of floating point.

The thread shows how early Microsoft interviews tested practical coding, low-level graphics knowledge, and algorithmic reasoning shaped by 90s hardware.