Microsoft Interview Questions

Miguel C. - "Missing launch. Only design is covered."See full answer

Priti S. - "T launch the Copilot Plus feature for Surface, follow these steps: Define Value Proposition: Highlight AI-driven enhancements for productivity, creativity, and collaboration tailored to Surface users. Target Audience: Focus on professionals, creators, and students with specific use cases. Product Development: Ensure seamless integration with Surface hardware (touchscreen, Pen) and leverage Azure AI for unique functionalities. Marketing Strategy: Build excitement with teasers, influencer partner"See full answer

Rika S. - "Snapchat's mission is to re-create how people use camera to capture their life moments. Snapchat's user base is comprised of Gen Z and Millenials, capturing the ~ 12-35 year old age group. Snapchat's goal is to keep these users engaged so they don't leave for enticing competitors like Tic Toc and Quibi. Tic Toc and Quibi are major competitors to Snapchat and they seem to compete on original content. They've partnered with celebrities and media brands to produce really engaging, high quality co"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

Anonymous Amphibian - "Personally i like the simple and user friendly interface of Adobe XD software. Which i have been using since last year and i am very comfortable with that. Nearly i didn't noticed any improvement in the software."See full answer

Tiago R. - "function findRotations(nums) { if (nums.length 0 && nums[mid] > nums[mid-1]) { left = mid; } else { right = mid; } } return rig"See full answer

B. T. - "Example: bucket A: 3 liters capacity bucket B: 5 liters capacity goal: 4 liters You are asked to print the logical sequence to get to the 4 liters of water in one bucket. Follow up: How would you solve the problem if you have more than 2 buckets of water?"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

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

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying questions: Are we taking about a personal parking lot or a public parking lot Do we have an objective in head for this lot -> Make money? Public parking lot from govt body Do we have a particular location in head for this -> basement, outside some building or on the roof Are we particular about the number of vehicles it can take up? Are we particular about the kind of vehicles that it can take up? (2 wheelers, 4 wheelers, heavy weight 4 wheelers) Taking a few assumptions:"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

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

Bhavya V. - "BERT - bidirectional encoder representations from transformer. For example:- it takes an entire sentence as input at once and understands the meaning of the words in that sentence and calculate the relations of words with each other irrespective of their positions from the original word to understand the meaning of the word using neighboring words. BERT model is a pre trained transformer model which can be fine-tuned for our purposes. It is used for tasks such sentimental analysis, question answ"See full answer

Khushboo S. - "I would like to appreciate the company for giving an opportunity to visually impaired colleague and also making appropriate arrangements for enabling them to deliver their responsibilities smoothly. When I become aware of a teammate who is blind, I would start with the following steps - Understanding the degree of disability they have and doing my own research on how can one interact with such colleagues and facilitate smooth coordination with them I would approach them and ask as to how c"See full answer