Top Microsoft Interview Questions

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

Parag - "Identify the constraints AR - definition College tour - definition (purpose - college application/college selection) Users College applicant/parents Tour guide Use Cases How does the college experience feel like in different seasons College experience in events, festivals, educational fairs Stimulate college sports events Mission statement - Sell the college to candidate in the best possible way Solutions At sports center, I can view the past games and experien"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

John F. - "First, I would like to establish some assumptions about the problem to determine if this is possible. For this scenario, I will assume that “accepted” does not mean a student is enrolled at the university (most students apply to multiple universities and can only attend one university). For simplicity, I will also assume that each student is applies to a single department and that every student is associated with a single department. Based on this information, I see a scenario that this would"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

Graig - "depends on. weather they want to persue any goal which is aligned with current scnerio"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

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

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

Sean L. - "hi"See full answer

Allison C. - "If I were to design a smartwatch app for Uber, I'd sort my work into two buckets: modifications fro the mobile-native app and new features that would be considered for the Uber experience on a smartwatch. As for modifications - you'd really have to think through the customer journey of ordering an Uber from your watch. For the purposes of this question, the only use case to use Uber would be to order and complete a ride from one point to another, not to look at ride history or get help on a pr"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

Dheeraj sai P. - "As a product manager in microsoft to support the customers I have to design a product. Let us take the E-Service as a name.In that we can see a form at first and after that a chat bot at the picture even there is a calling facility.Other queries done with the bot."See full answer

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