Microsoft Product Manager Interview Questions

Shuvam C. - "Introduce special tickets which will cover a bundle of rides. This will distribute the load over the remaining rides and reduce the queue for the particular ride as all the people will no longer try to avail the same ride simultaneously."See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Strategy question, which means finding good reasons for strategic decisions. A few reasons for the GitHub acquisition are listed here. Competition > With the GitHub acquisition comes a lot of data on which companies are getting huge, or which technologies are cutting edge. Microsoft can adopt these technologies faster than others by having a pulse on this. It's also a defensive acquisition, since GitHub belonging to Microsoft means it can't be bought by Facebook or Google"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking a subscription-based product. This should be relatively easy since most of us are subscribed to at least one of these services. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? **How does this product address these pain points dif"See full answer

Apurv M. - "Started with the clarifying questions. Then discussed the following with the panel: Goal Users Use Cases Features Priority Metrics to measure the success"See full answer

Madhur K. - "I have worked with ML when I was a PM for Customer Due Diligence and it required recalibration to improve the matching logic (for screening and Proof of business matching with Google) and threshold analysis. In this scenario we had to extract past True positive, False positive decisions from operations and run threshold analysis to come up with a new threshold to match better and remove the noise i.e. False positives. Taking this new threshold for matching, the ML algorithm is receiving feedback"See full answer

Hiro L. - "Clarification : Criteria: User Journey Potential Use Case: Pain Points: Possible Solutions Tradeoff: Metrices:"See full answer