Microsoft Interview Questions

Ajinkya P. - " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"See full answer

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

John F. - "While working as a consultant, I was assigned to a project to design and build a solution for accessing and managing documents on deepwater drilling wells with limited connectivity. I and the developer assigned to the project conducted interviews with various engineers and team members on the rigs. We worked with the client's IT group to analyze options for getting content to and from the rig. Together, we came up with a solution that would leverage their existing SharePoint infrastructure (avai"See full answer

Praveen D. - "Picking the value of 'k' can be little tricky. One simple approach would be to start with elbow method. Try different 'k' values and plot them on a graph like an experiment. When the graph starts to look like an elbow, that's a good 'k' to pick! Also keep in mind you may not always have clearly clustered data. The elbow may not be clear and sharp as you expect. Hope this helps."See full answer

Vijay S. - "Clarification questions - Assumption: Blind person - Generally aware about what an ATM machine is and how it works. Markets - US market and think about global expansion later Regulatory, Financial companies approval - We have agreement from the regulators and financial companies about the merits and we don’t see any kind of concerns from these companies Goal - Part of the company's social initiatives - Positive word of mouth - increase customer base Users - **Blind users with no other disabi"See full answer

Harsh W. - "Me: That's an interesting challenge. I would like to get some clarifications before jumping into potential solutions. Are we talking about the global search market irrespective of device or are we talking about a specific geography / device type? Interviewer: Lets go ahead with all possible searches. Me: Ok. Is there a specific reason we want to capture a significant market share from Google (e.g. higher search revenue, cross-selling MSFT services etc.) and are there any timelines we should k"See full answer

Takashi M. - "Me: First of all, I’d like to have some clarification about this project. Me: What is the current product line design of the vending machine? Is this a traditional vending machine? Customers pay money cash or credit card, and select products and receive the product. Interviewer: Yes, that is the correct assumption. We make vending machines for canned drinks and bottled drinks. Another product line is for selling small packaged snacks. Me: What is the goal of this project? Is"See full answer

Sachin R. - "If 0's aren't a concern, couldn't we just multiply all numbers. and then divide product by each number in the list ? if there's more than one zero, then we just return an array of 0s if there's one zero, then we just replace 0 with product and rest 0s. what am i missing?"See full answer

Rohan S. - "I got to play with a VR for the first time a few weeks ago at my friend’s house and I loved it, so this is a really fun question. Clarifying Questions Is this something we are looking to create Microsoft or are we a startup company etc? > Education can refer to elementary, high school, university, or even self-learning (e.g. Udemy). Is there a specific area we want to focus on? << What do y"See full answer

Alfredo M. - "The question refers to a very specific event: "step into the back for a few minutes, return and see a lot of people waiting"... I might try to clarify goals and scenario: Before I stepped back, there were no ppl waiting? If so, we might be talking about a very specific, even uncommon scenario, in which optimizations for the complete serving system in the long term might not be needed. Maybe they even arrived all together and this is expected behavior. Are people waiting for something specif"See full answer

Megha V. - "Assumptions, company, industry, external, customers, problems, solutions, metrics Company is microsoft, its vision is to help people and organization to achieve their full potential by increasing productivity . Task management - there are many products like notes, google task etc which exist but no one is market leader. A user had a list of tasks which she wants to complete by Y deadline and their is prirotization among these and could be categorized Task - start day, end day, estimated time to"See full answer

Alfredo M. - "First, I'd like to ask some clarifying questions and try to narrow down the scope of this question. Among them I would like to ask: Are we looking to optimize for a specific goal or metric? Eg: we want more users/queries or are we looking to increase revenue? Are we testing over a specific aspect of Bing? EG: UI, search quality results, recommendation engine, etc. Duration and size of the test. Available resources or constraints (teams, technology, budget) Now, to ass"See full answer

Davide P. - "Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. I am always inspired by helping others to achieve more by participating to different volunteer and mentorship experiences like Microsoft Student Ambassador, and GeeksForGeeks student ambassador, and I have also created and shared a free competitive-programming guide which once reached more than 700 stars on github, that enables students and professionals to join Microsoft like Microsoft, that hav"See full answer

Gaurav C. - "Clarifying Questions: Do we have any specific goal in mind for this new product, for example targeting new audience, expansion to new places , catering to new need etc. · I am going to assume targeting new audience Do we have any constraints? · No constraints When you say restaurants does it mean casual restaurants, pubs, food joints 5 star hotels etc. · I am going to assume all kind of restaurants who have already registered there establishments on Swiggy Structure User Segme"See full answer