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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Design an electric car dashboard.
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Design
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Design an AR app for college tours.
Product Design
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"Identify the constraints AR - definition College tour - definition (purpose - college application/college selection) Users College applicant/parents Tour guide Use Cases How does the college experience feel like in different seasons College experience in events, festivals, educational fairs Stimulate college sports events Mission statement - Sell the college to candidate in the best possible way Solutions At sports center, I can view the past games and experien"
Parag - "Identify the constraints AR - definition College tour - definition (purpose - college application/college selection) Users College applicant/parents Tour guide Use Cases How does the college experience feel like in different seasons College experience in events, festivals, educational fairs Stimulate college sports events Mission statement - Sell the college to candidate in the best possible way Solutions At sports center, I can view the past games and experien"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Microsoft, Adobe, Apple • a year ago
Top k frequent elements
Data Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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"Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"
Chen J. - "Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"See full answer
Data Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Given the pandemic, how would you build a software product to help parents monitor their child's increasing screen time on laptops and mobiles?
Product Manager
Product Design
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"Clarification : Criteria: User Journey Potential Use Case: Pain Points: Possible Solutions Tradeoff: Metrices:"
Hiro L. - "Clarification : Criteria: User Journey Potential Use Case: Pain Points: Possible Solutions Tradeoff: Metrices:"See full answer
Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Microsoft • 3 years ago
Describe a time when you had difficulty determining the needs of a customer to provide them with a suitable product or service.
Product Marketing Manager
Behavioral
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"for one time i was working as a receptionist in a hotel and one of the rooms that the customer needed was not available but rather we had diffrent room with the same quality i had to convince the customer to use the room we had and i would personally transfer him to the room he desires when its available"
Jr H. - "for one time i was working as a receptionist in a hotel and one of the rooms that the customer needed was not available but rather we had diffrent room with the same quality i had to convince the customer to use the room we had and i would personally transfer him to the room he desires when its available"See full answer
Product Marketing Manager
Behavioral

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Asked at Microsoft • 2 years ago
Tell me about a machine learning research topic you find interesting.
Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
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Machine Learning Engineer
Machine Learning
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
You're a PM at WhatsApp; how would you capture the market for kids during the lockdown period?
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Design a product that helps college students in dorms befriend each other, including architecture and database schema.
Product Design
Technical
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"hi"
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Product Design
Technical
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Design a food truck's front-end and backend system.
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Technical
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Product Manager
Technical
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Write code to find even numbers of occurrences from a given list of integers.
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Design a mobile phone for tweens.
Product Design
System Design
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Product Design
System Design
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Redesign a TV remote control.
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at Microsoft, Excel Impact • a year ago
Question related to data architecture.
Technical Program Manager
Product Design
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"I don't have relevant experience so I gave an approach according to my understanding. feedback: understanding how to define a semantic model. ( My answer and approach mentioned didn't indicate that) i am working on all the constructive feedback provided. hoping this feedback helps someone else"
Praniti S. - "I don't have relevant experience so I gave an approach according to my understanding. feedback: understanding how to define a semantic model. ( My answer and approach mentioned didn't indicate that) i am working on all the constructive feedback provided. hoping this feedback helps someone else"See full answer
Technical Program Manager
Product Design
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
Print all words from a dictionary that can be found on a given Boggle board.
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Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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"public class BoggleBoard { public static List findWords(char board, Set dictionary) { int rows = board.length; int cols = board[0].length; boolean visited = new booleanrows; int directions = {{1,0}, {-1,0}, {0,1}, {0,-1}}; List result = new ArrayList(); for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) { for(int j=0; j<cols; j++) { dfs(board, visited, i, j, dictionary, "", result, dire"
Aniket G. - "public class BoggleBoard { public static List findWords(char board, Set dictionary) { int rows = board.length; int cols = board[0].length; boolean visited = new booleanrows; int directions = {{1,0}, {-1,0}, {0,1}, {0,-1}}; List result = new ArrayList(); for(int i=0; i<rows; i++) { for(int j=0; j<cols; j++) { dfs(board, visited, i, j, dictionary, "", result, dire"See full answer
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
How would you improve the health of the internet?
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
You're called in by the government of India to design the Cowin portal. What top features would you integrate for partner personas? What key metrics would indicate the platform's success and how wo...
Product Manager
Analytical
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Product Manager
Analytical
Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
How could you redesign the Microsoft Developer Network?
Product Design
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"Clarifying Questions - Are we trying to increase user base, engagement, adoption, or retention specifically? Is revenue also need to be considered? Interviewer - You decide Q- Ill go with increasing user engagement and retention because MSDN is a pretty well known website and been out there for a while now. Also, once we have user engagement and retention taken care of, revenue will follow Interviewer - Sure MSFT mission is to empower every person and org on the planet to achieve mo"
Siddhartha S. - "Clarifying Questions - Are we trying to increase user base, engagement, adoption, or retention specifically? Is revenue also need to be considered? Interviewer - You decide Q- Ill go with increasing user engagement and retention because MSDN is a pretty well known website and been out there for a while now. Also, once we have user engagement and retention taken care of, revenue will follow Interviewer - Sure MSFT mission is to empower every person and org on the planet to achieve mo"See full answer
Product Design
Asked at Microsoft, Uber • 3 months ago
What's the difference between encryption and hashing?
Security Analyst
Technical
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Security Analyst
Technical
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Asked at Microsoft, NASA • 3 months ago
Write a PowerShell script to detect C2 beaconing.
Security Engineer
Coding
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Security Engineer
Coding
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
How would you identify and address different types of needs in mobile apps?
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design