Top Microsoft Interview Questions

Suhasan C. - "i'm going to Structure my answer like this: make sure we both are on the same page by asking Qs Users and their use cases/pain points Prioritise the use cases Brainstorm some solution Priritize the solutions + Trade offs Metrics define success Clarifying Qs: Who are we? ==> MicroSoft team who designs physical product Whiteboard so==> mething where people can write/draw to present/explain/workout Office==> workplace. Not schools/univ Smart ==> It understands most o"See full answer

Amparo L. - "I'm currently a School Bus Monitor at First Student, I make sure that the students on the bus are seated down, making sure they are safe during the bus ride. Sometimes depending on the day they may need me to help do a wheelchair so I sometimes help the driver out with making sure the wheelchair is safely secure, hooking up the 4 hooks on the wheelchair, putting the lap belt on the student and also making sure the student feels comfortable during the bus ride. After we finished dropping off our"See full answer

Guna shekhar reddy B. - "From my understanding there are many music apps focused on providing various services such as streaming, learning musical instruments, and collaboration among musicians. However,, there seems to be a gap in the area of emerging musicians getting discovered by producers or talent scouts. Considering this gap, we could design an app, “ StageLite ”, which allows budding musicians to upload clips of their performances. These can then be evaluated and rated by a community of users who can upvote good"See full answer

Kunal kumar S. - "simply check its size if the size if the size is greater than n then yes it has duplicate"See full answer

Anonymous Impala - "Understand who will use the kitchen is the first step"See full answer

Jonathan O. - "Clarify: Is this an app that we want to house within the FB ecosystem, or will this be a standalone app? When we say food delivery, do we mean meals that are ready to eat? Groceries? Convenience store items? Assumptions: Let's make some assumptions here: App will not be housed in with FB ecosystem. This is not even an app associated with FB. Food delivery will be defined as delivering meal(s) that are ready to eat when you receive them **Goal: Take on the incumbents by addressi"See full answer

Aashka C. - "Sorted the array and stored the minimum difference in a variable and then traversed the array for the pairs having minimum difference"See full answer

Musa G. - "Depends on the kind of goals they are trying to pursue. I would clarify with the interviewer. . if you work for say a fintech, and are trying to create say a real-estate app with company resources - no go . if you want to write a book on management say while being an EM, then there's some wiggle room here. As long as you get the book approved by your IP team, should be ok . if you want to work on a hackathon project on something tangentially related to your team, still ok as long as the concept"See full answer

GalacticInterviewer - "I first clarified what he needed for the leaderboard meaning did he need a gaming leaderboard system, a stock market leaderboard system where the trades placed would be ranked in terms of values or a coding platform leaderboard where the users are ranked as per the points earned by solving the problem? He answered that he wanted a multipurpose leaderboard system He was specifically interested in the design of the api part Explained him that assuming we had a flask api there would be a get re"See full answer

Priyank S. - "clarify question- do you want me to focus on Home, wearables, automotive or any specific IOT product? Interviewer - whichever you want to focus Rephrase: So I believe our goal is to make life easier for users using Internet of things (IOT) product. Does that sound good? Interviewer - Yes Ok so if I understand it, I can focus on any IOT product. For me Internet of things product is the one which is smart and connects to internet and makes people day to day tasks easy. With evolution of 5G Interne"See full answer

Sreenath P. - "I confirmed with the interviewer that its about how slave replaces primary when primary node when suddenly shuts down. It was very tough question for me i felt. i told, we need to maintain schema of primary, secondary instances with their URL's and posts. There should be heartbeat service which always pings the actual microservices to get to know their instances health."See full answer

Yashaswini K. - "The interviewer was curious to understand my transition from a core development profile to an NGO and then to an MBA program. He was trying to understand my thoughts behind the journey and what convinced me about going for a PM role. What helped me answer this was - Having spent some time by myself mapping out the good and not-so-great experiences at each part of my journey What exactly motivated me to take the next step each time How it all connected What moments in the journey hi"See full answer

Ranj A. - "In the Transformer architecture, the decoder differs from the encoder primarily in its additional mechanisms designed to handle autoregressive sequence generation. Here's a breakdown of the key differences: Self-Attention Mechanism: Encoder: The encoder has a standard self-attention mechanism that allows each token to attend to all other tokens in the input sequence. Decoder: The decoder has two types of self-attention. The first is the same as in the encoder, but the second is mas"See full answer