Microsoft Interview Questions

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  • "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"

    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

    Product Design
    Analytical
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  • "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"

    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

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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    "Clarify: User experience improvements or revenue based improvements for the company? (Assumed UX) Can it be hardware or must it be software? (assumed I have the choice) Position: My favorite product is Airbnb. It's an app that let's people list their home for short term rental and then let's guests book those homes (or rooms) to stay in. It's used primarily for vacations but people all over the world now use it for business or even longer term stays. It's idea was pretty revolutionary a"

    Joel A. - "Clarify: User experience improvements or revenue based improvements for the company? (Assumed UX) Can it be hardware or must it be software? (assumed I have the choice) Position: My favorite product is Airbnb. It's an app that let's people list their home for short term rental and then let's guests book those homes (or rooms) to stay in. It's used primarily for vacations but people all over the world now use it for business or even longer term stays. It's idea was pretty revolutionary a"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    +7

    "Honestly, In addition to having the right expertise and skills required for this job, I am really looking forward to being part of this organisation’s journey. I am really confident that I will really exceed your expectations in achieving both mine and the company’s goals. I have worked with different teams in different capacities, managed a team of engineers successfully from very early part of my career and that has made me a very easy person to work with. I get things done easily. I am passio"

    Piyush D. - "Honestly, In addition to having the right expertise and skills required for this job, I am really looking forward to being part of this organisation’s journey. I am really confident that I will really exceed your expectations in achieving both mine and the company’s goals. I have worked with different teams in different capacities, managed a team of engineers successfully from very early part of my career and that has made me a very easy person to work with. I get things done easily. I am passio"See full answer

    Sales Representative
    Behavioral
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    "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"

    Ben G. - "Ask Follow up Questions Is this for specific type of user or open? Do we have any past research that has been done? Do we have an idea of company and user goals? Do we have metrics of success? Are there any existing constraints? Why  |  5 min Why is this product or feature important? How does this product benefit customers? What business opportunities does it create? What is our hypothesis? What are our company goals? Who  |  3 min Who are the different types"See full answer

    Product Designer
    Product Design
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    "Honestly, I would’ve loved something like this when I was younger. I couldn’t wait till the day I was 18 so I could start investing and would read personal finance books on random topics. Clarification Questions Kids is a very broad term, is there a specific age range you had in mind or would you want me to determine that myself? > I will assume that this will start off as an application, and then later can be integrated on a"

    Rohan S. - "Honestly, I would’ve loved something like this when I was younger. I couldn’t wait till the day I was 18 so I could start investing and would read personal finance books on random topics. Clarification Questions Kids is a very broad term, is there a specific age range you had in mind or would you want me to determine that myself? > I will assume that this will start off as an application, and then later can be integrated on a"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "I'd like to clarify the question here for better understanding. Are we targeting any location? Assuming WW Do we have any demographics of the users? Assuming overall users Did we see any drop recently in TV watching users metrics for which we want to improve the watch time on TVs? No, in general we want to improve this area. Are we looking to improve the overall Netflix watch time on TV, not to acquire new users? Correct. As Netflix is offering content of so many genres of con"

    Vijendar K. - "I'd like to clarify the question here for better understanding. Are we targeting any location? Assuming WW Do we have any demographics of the users? Assuming overall users Did we see any drop recently in TV watching users metrics for which we want to improve the watch time on TVs? No, in general we want to improve this area. Are we looking to improve the overall Netflix watch time on TV, not to acquire new users? Correct. As Netflix is offering content of so many genres of con"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Here's some thought on what I'll be doing in this situation: Identify the root cause (I'll try to assess WHY the engineers don't action these tickets). In order to identify the potential reasons, I'd have 1:1s with team members, observe participation and engagement in backlog grooming sessions and check in with leads and my peers. Lack of clarity on requirements or acceptance criteria. Skill gaps. Dependency on other teams or missing prerequisites. Team capaci"

    Anonymous Dingo - "Here's some thought on what I'll be doing in this situation: Identify the root cause (I'll try to assess WHY the engineers don't action these tickets). In order to identify the potential reasons, I'd have 1:1s with team members, observe participation and engagement in backlog grooming sessions and check in with leads and my peers. Lack of clarity on requirements or acceptance criteria. Skill gaps. Dependency on other teams or missing prerequisites. Team capaci"See full answer

    Customer Success Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
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    " I have told about the challenge I have faced while designing the Automation Framework for Angular and React website and why we have to use 1 library puppeteer sharp over selenium e.g. we need to handle the asynch calls correctly when an object is selected in the UI and result is awaited for it."

    Kanwal jeet singh L. - " I have told about the challenge I have faced while designing the Automation Framework for Angular and React website and why we have to use 1 library puppeteer sharp over selenium e.g. we need to handle the asynch calls correctly when an object is selected in the UI and result is awaited for it."See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Technical
    +2 more
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    "What will be the technical Interview looks like for Program Manager at Microsoft? What types of questions they generally ask."

    Rahul D. - "What will be the technical Interview looks like for Program Manager at Microsoft? What types of questions they generally ask."See full answer

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    "Interviewer wanted to learn more about architecture and or scalability. But I was not sure what the expected answer was"

    Mridul J. - "Interviewer wanted to learn more about architecture and or scalability. But I was not sure what the expected answer was"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    +5

    "function preorderToInorder(preorder) { let inorder = []; let stack = []; let root = preorder[0]; stack.push(root); for (let i = 1; i 0 && stack[stack.length - 1] 0) { root = stack.pop(); inorder.push(r"

    Ugo C. - "function preorderToInorder(preorder) { let inorder = []; let stack = []; let root = preorder[0]; stack.push(root); for (let i = 1; i 0 && stack[stack.length - 1] 0) { root = stack.pop(); inorder.push(r"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Data Structures & Algorithms
    +2 more
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    +7

    "Question: Design a CookBook app A few questions I’d ask the interviewer are: what’s the purpose/goal of the app, who are the user segments, and any primary geography we’re targeting as the first launch of the product. Answers/assumptions to the questions: let’s say below are the answers the interviewer provides: what’s the purpose/goal of the app: to help people to follow a recipe, follow it while cooking, and also request a recipe who are the user segments: considering people who’r"

    Anamitra - "Question: Design a CookBook app A few questions I’d ask the interviewer are: what’s the purpose/goal of the app, who are the user segments, and any primary geography we’re targeting as the first launch of the product. Answers/assumptions to the questions: let’s say below are the answers the interviewer provides: what’s the purpose/goal of the app: to help people to follow a recipe, follow it while cooking, and also request a recipe who are the user segments: considering people who’r"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
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    "As always, I'd start this discussion by asking a couple clarifying questions. In particular, I'd like to learn more from the interviewer about what "not pulling as hard" looks like. Does it mean: lower code output relative to the rest of the team lower velocity per sprint in terms of story points less participation in code reviews minimal participation in meetings and ceremonies Or perhaps it's a combination of these. As others have pointed out, I'd also want to confirm that I am not ma"

    Seth W. - "As always, I'd start this discussion by asking a couple clarifying questions. In particular, I'd like to learn more from the interviewer about what "not pulling as hard" looks like. Does it mean: lower code output relative to the rest of the team lower velocity per sprint in terms of story points less participation in code reviews minimal participation in meetings and ceremonies Or perhaps it's a combination of these. As others have pointed out, I'd also want to confirm that I am not ma"See full answer

    Business Analyst
    Behavioral
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    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
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    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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    "Skype is a communication and collaboration tool used by individuals and businesses. Users can send messages, do audio and video calls, share screen etc. There are two parts to the business model: Individual user - to - individual user: users can make audio and video calls at no fee Enterprises: Organisations need to purchase the subscription for internal usage. Revenue depends on \# of paying enterprises, length of subscription, price per month/year Product objective: increase rev"

    Rahul J. - "Skype is a communication and collaboration tool used by individuals and businesses. Users can send messages, do audio and video calls, share screen etc. There are two parts to the business model: Individual user - to - individual user: users can make audio and video calls at no fee Enterprises: Organisations need to purchase the subscription for internal usage. Revenue depends on \# of paying enterprises, length of subscription, price per month/year Product objective: increase rev"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
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    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time you built up a technical champion.'
    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
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