Top Microsoft Interview Questions

Mr L. - "I have integrated AI into my daily workflow to improve productivity and reduce time spent on repetitive tasks. Some examples include: Code Development: I use AI to generate code snippets, troubleshoot issues, explain complex concepts, and speed up development tasks. Writing and Communication: AI helps me improve sentence structure, grammar, clarity, and tone when drafting emails, documentation, and reports. Learning and Research: I leverage AI to quickly understand new technolo"See full answer

B. T. - "The interviewer was interested how the system design would be for files, directories, symbolic links. After proposing my idea, I was asked to print all files for a given path."See full answer

Praveen D. - "Let me try to explain it with simple life analogy You're cooking dinner in the kitchen. Multithreading is when you've got a bunch of friends helping out. Each friend does a different job—like one chops veggies while another stirs a sauce. Everyone focuses on their task, and together, you all make the meal faster. In a computer, it's like different jobs happening all at once, making stuff happen quicker, just like having lots of friends helping makes dinner ready faster."See full answer

Saket S. - "Project Schedule is a living document which is prepared based on inputs from the entire team including product, engineering, finance, sales, marketing, legal etc. It is owned by Project/Program Manager but it reflects progress of the whole team. Inputs required for the development of schedule includes project charter, list of stakeholders, project scope, WBS, freeze calendar, vendor SOWs etc. I will use the following approach for schedule development: Copy Milestone level plan from Project"See full answer

Priti S. - "Designing an Email Application for the Blind Creating an accessible email application for blind users involves leveraging screen reader compatibility, tactile feedback, and voice recognition technologies. Here's a comprehensive approach: Core Design Principles: Accessibility-First Design: Ensure compatibility with screen readers like NVDA, JAWS, or VoiceOver. Follow accessibility guidelines (WCAG) for structure, navigation, and content. Voice Interaction:Use voice comman"See full answer

Saket S. - "Clarifying questions: Are we trying to determine impact of changing timeline on Project? Assuming Project scenario. I need to take a 360 degree view and hence I would list down all the stakeholders and work with them to understand impact of changing timeline: Internal Stakeholders Business: Does this change impact the revenue/profitability Engineering: Do we foresee any technological risks due to change in timeline Sales: Does this impact our sales forecast Marketing:"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

Vikash A. - "Functional Requirement Upload the file of any type POST v1/drive Upload the another version of file. POST v1/drive/{fileId} Delete the file. DELETE v1/drive/{fileId} Share the file. POST v1/drive/{fileId} Control the access level of the file. Provide the file accessibility following the directory structure. Non Functional Requirement Reliability: The file along with its versions uploaded should be"See full answer

Anonymous Starfish - "Ask my manager how urgent is my task and why it should be done if needed. If its urgent enough and I can’t wait, communicate with team explaining what goals going to be achieved by implementing and why its important"See full answer

John F. - "(i) helped others success Over the years, I’ve had a few non-technical friends who wanted to start companies. Around two years ago, one of these friends reached out to ask for some guidance on how to start. This individual wanted to take the Airbnb model and apply it to outdoor recreational activities, mainly hunting and fishing. His problem was he had no frame of reference for where to start of what kind of effort and investment it would take. Over the course of a couple of conversations I help"See full answer

Stanley Y. - "First of all, stack and heap memory are abstraction on top of the hardware by the compiler. The hardware is not aware of stack and heap memory. There is only a single piece of memory that a program has access to. The compiler creates the concepts of stack and heap memory to run the programs efficiently. Programs use stack memory to store local variables and a few important register values such as frame pointer and return address for program counter. This makes it easier for the compiler to gene"See full answer

John F. - "Recently, I was listening to an episode of Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast (aptly named Lenny’s Podcast), where he interviews Christian Idiodi, talking about the essence of product management. In the open sequence, Christian talks about the essence of this job being “you wake up on behalf of someone else, and you have to do it well enough that they give you something back in return.” This statement really struck a chord with me and resonated with why I love being a product manager. Customers and their"See full answer

Patrick M. - "First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace. Questions I would ask are: What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving? What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite? What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite? Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"See full answer

Anonymous Cheetah - "I talked about a time that my manager had a better understanding of something than me and that I had to start to ask him what he knew about a certain type of thing once I was getting work assigned"See full answer

Amparo L. - "My toughest project was at the Hampton Inn in 2023 and what we did was we had to sort the soap into boxes and then what was hard about it is we had to sort the boxes of soaps into bottles and on the other box we had to put the bottles, we had to make it neat so that they can ship it into other areas were soap was needed."See full answer

John F. - "Building data centers in outer space is a concept that has been talked about for a few years now. However, to my knowledge, no one has yet succeeded in building one. In order to simplify this case, I am going to only investigate putting Azure Disk Storage into the cloud. To determine if this is a viable scenario for Azure, I will examine why Azure may want to pursue building a data center in outer space, the technological feasibility, and finally, a potential market for this service. Business D"See full answer