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Asked at Microsoft • 2 years ago
What is a perceptron?
Machine Learning Engineer
Concept
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"A perceptron is the most basic building block of a neural network and represents a single-layer binary classifier."
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Machine Learning Engineer
Concept
Asked at Microsoft • 6 months ago
How do you drive adoption for a new product?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at Microsoft • a year ago
Implement a function to justify a list of words within a given width.
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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"You are given a string S and a number K as input, and your task is to print S to console output considering that, at most, you can print K characters per line. Example: S = "abracadabra sample" K = 11 Output: abracadabra sample Note that this problem requires the interviewee gather extra requirements from the interviewer (e.g. do we care about multiple white spaces? what if the length of a word is greater than K, ...)"
B. T. - "You are given a string S and a number K as input, and your task is to print S to console output considering that, at most, you can print K characters per line. Example: S = "abracadabra sample" K = 11 Output: abracadabra sample Note that this problem requires the interviewee gather extra requirements from the interviewer (e.g. do we care about multiple white spaces? what if the length of a word is greater than K, ...)"See full answer
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Microsoft • 4 years ago
What are the key concepts and operations associated with trees?
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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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

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Asked at Microsoft • 3 years ago
Explain why Airbnb is a good app.
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Microsoft • 3 years ago
Tell me about a time when someone you networked with had a professional impact on you.
Product Marketing Manager
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Product Marketing Manager
Asked at Microsoft • a year ago
How would you build out a feature for Viva Engage?
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
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Asked at Microsoft • 9 months ago
What is SQL?
Data Engineer
SQL
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"SQL is structured query language."
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Data Engineer
SQL
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Asked at Microsoft • 3 years ago
Tell me about a project where you had to teach yourself something new to solve a problem or complete a task.
Product Marketing Manager
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Product Marketing Manager
Asked at Microsoft • 4 months ago
How would you prepare a presentation for the CEO, within two weeks, on Microsoft Shifts’ current performance and potential improvements?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at Microsoft • a year ago
Given a list of transactions between friends, return the minimum number of transactions required to settle the debts. For e.g. Alice gave $5 to Bob and Bob gave $5 to Bill. Answer will be 1.
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Microsoft • 3 years ago
How have you leveraged data to create solutions?
Product Marketing Manager
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Product Marketing Manager
Asked at Microsoft • a year ago
Given two empty jugs with capacities a and b liters and an infinite water supply, determine a way to end up with exactly X liters of water.
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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"Example: bucket A: 3 liters capacity bucket B: 5 liters capacity goal: 4 liters You are asked to print the logical sequence to get to the 4 liters of water in one bucket. Follow up: How would you solve the problem if you have more than 2 buckets of water?"
B. T. - "Example: bucket A: 3 liters capacity bucket B: 5 liters capacity goal: 4 liters You are asked to print the logical sequence to get to the 4 liters of water in one bucket. Follow up: How would you solve the problem if you have more than 2 buckets of water?"See full answer
Software Engineer
Data Structures & Algorithms
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Asked at Microsoft • a year ago
What is your philosophy on technology?
Customer Success Manager
Behavioral
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Customer Success Manager
Behavioral
Asked at Microsoft • 8 months ago
Design an app to read books online.
Product Manager
Product Design
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Product Manager
Product Design
Asked at Microsoft • a month ago
Based on the latest AI news, what ideas do you have that are one step beyond what exists today?
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at Microsoft • 21 days ago
How would you reduce alert fatigue in Microsoft OneSoc?
Product Manager
Artificial Intelligence
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Product Manager
Artificial Intelligence
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Asked at Microsoft • a month ago
What would you build and why? Run through an end-to-end “moonshot”-style example.
Product Manager
Product Strategy
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Product Manager
Product Strategy
Asked at Microsoft • a month ago
Have you done any “vibe coding” or built anything outside work that shows AI-first product thinking?
Product Manager
Behavioral
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Product Manager
Behavioral

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Top Microsoft Interview Questions

What is a perceptron?

How do you drive adoption for a new product?

Implement a function to justify a list of words within a given width.

What are the key concepts and operations associated with trees?

Tell me about a machine learning research topic you find interesting.

Explain why Airbnb is a good app.

Tell me about a time when someone you networked with had a professional impact on you.

How would you build out a feature for Viva Engage?

What is SQL?

Tell me about a project where you had to teach yourself something new to solve a problem or complete a task.

How would you prepare a presentation for the CEO, within two weeks, on Microsoft Shifts’ current performance and potential improvements?

Given a list of transactions between friends, return the minimum number of transactions required to settle the debts. For e.g. Alice gave $5 to Bob and Bob gave $5 to Bill. Answer will be 1.

How have you leveraged data to create solutions?

Given two empty jugs with capacities a and b liters and an infinite water supply, determine a way to end up with exactly X liters of water.

What is your philosophy on technology?

Design an app to read books online.

Based on the latest AI news, what ideas do you have that are one step beyond what exists today?

How would you reduce alert fatigue in Microsoft OneSoc?

What would you build and why? Run through an end-to-end “moonshot”-style example.

Have you done any “vibe coding” or built anything outside work that shows AI-first product thinking?

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