Top Microsoft Interview Questions

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

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

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

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. - "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

Samarth S. - "Before we jump into discussion , few Qs which come to my mind in order to narrow the scope are: What kind of security system we are thinking . What do we want to achieve? Is there any biz goal in mind. What security related pain points are we trying to solve. What is the kind of hotel - is it a vacation rental , standalone hotel, highway motel, big chain resorts? What are the current systems being used. I think most of hotels have closed circuit cameras , fire alarms installed in"See full answer

Anusree N. - "Design a product for cyclists. Clarifying Cyclist as in? People who cycle right? Who are we? Startup Are we designing a MVP/Standalone application or integrating the solution with an already existing one? Goal? Seems like acquisition, anything else or any broader goal that might be in your mind? Customer segments? You define. Is it a hardware or a software product? Geography? India Customer segment Regular cyclist: Who uses cycle for their daily commute. (As acquisition is our main g"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

Carlos L. - "There are many companies I’m excited about, but none captures my heart and imagination more than Lego. I have great memories of playing with Lego. I remember the thrill and happiness after completing a set and the excitement to show it to my family, relatives and friends. From a product standpoint, Lego offers a myriad of opportunities for growth in today’s context in which technology is ubiquitous. **Lego has faced several challenges over the years from expanding their user base, tradi"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. - "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

DM - "Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager. I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Target Consumers: corporate clients - for business meetings students (in school, college) aspirants who want to take competitive exams/tests Identify underserved customer needs: re-application leads to post-it's not being sticky enough space crunch so user needs to be precise post-its need to stick from all 4 corners for it to be readable and so it folds less writing with pen, marker gets imprinted on next page Define Value Proposition: a small piece of paper with concise list of"See full answer

Anonymous Wombat - "Was the statement very similar to the leetcode or was it changed and only the main idea remained?"See full answer

John F. - "During the course of my career, I have had the opportunity to fill a variety of roles. I’ve been a business analyst, a consultant, a project manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a product manager. Each of these has had aspects that I have enjoyed. There are a few that standout though over everything else. First is that I have a passion for working with people. In each of these roles, my favorite part was always working with a diverse range of individuals from various levels of the orga"See full answer

Priyanka D. - "Clarifying Questions: Are we not being able to see any data at all ? or are we not seeing the latest updated data? In either case I can categorize this problem with 3 causes System Issue Is it a be a production bug , where node failure happened? (data load failure) Did our event-engine schedule re-runs fail to run code that fetches underlying data? Are the Dynamics team making some design changes on the tool which may go live and have triggered the DB not being refreshed ? A"See full answer

Rav S. - "Stakeholder management, Customer obsession, tech expertise to understand the tech stack and other details of the product."See full answer

Ekta M. - "Think of an operating system (OS) as being similar to a person managing household tasks like you! Imagine you have several chores to do around the house, such as cooking, cleaning, and praying. Each of these tasks is like an individual app. You, in this case, are responsible for ensuring all these tasks are completed smoothly. When you cook, you decide what ingredients to buy, how much of each, and which utensils to use. For cleaning, you assess what surfaces need to be cleaned, whether you need"See full answer

Christina Z. - "That is a great product opportunity. I see the vision to drive engagement by building a reward based experience to encourage kids to login to the app and track their books and trigger a visual pleasing experience when the child completes a book. The more complex the book, the bigger the reward."See full answer