Top Microsoft Interview Questions

Shanti informatics - "Goals; Customer engagement/ acquisition; Persona: 60-70; User journey: Selecting the right flight → Adding details → Selecting the best coupon for payment; Web-Check in; At the airport: Luggage check-in; Boarding; Flight Travel; Arrival: Collecting the luggage from belt; I would be focusing on the first two steps: Selecting right flight + and web check-in → That seems the most challenging aspect an elderly; Pain Points/ Challenges: Selecting the right flight (Duration/ Pric"See full answer

Exponent - "This problem tests your ability to make sense of strategic business decisions. Don't feel pressured to start speaking immediately — you should feel free to take a few moments of silence to come up with some sound arguments. This makes your answer sound more measured and thought through. For this question, there are a few lines of reasoning you can go with. Data > LinkedIn was, and still is, the largest professional social network on the web. Since almost every high-powered executive and senio"See full answer

Saran V. - "Understanding: Understand the reason for the pushback? Is the pushback related to any program constraints such as schedule, cost, quality, or scope? Is this pushback from a single stakeholder or a majority of the stakeholders? Working towards overall program goal: Explain how your idea is tied to the overall program's success metric or the goal Bring in data points to echo the above point Bring in examples of how this approach has helped in the past or with other competitors "See full answer

Sambangi C. - "#simple solution 1.firstly find the node in the bst (O(logn) time complexity it take) 2.now removing the node consists of 3 cases: 1.if the node is leaf (no children): (keep track of parent and do) parent.left or parent.right=NULL simply remove the node () 2.if(has one child) replace the node with its child 3.if has both childs we replace the node with either inorder predesor(max of left tree)or inorder succesor and remove the node wh"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

Vikas K. - "During a trip to Japan, I encountered a significant language barrier that influenced how I communicated with others. As I didn't speak Japanese fluently, I had to rely on basic phrases and non-verbal communication to interact with locals. This experience made me realize the importance of understanding cultural diversity. Despite the language barrier, I found that people were patient and understanding. They appreciated my efforts to communicate in their language, even if it was limited. This expe"See full answer

Siddhartha S. - "Clarifying Questions - Are we trying to increase user base, engagement, adoption, or retention specifically? Is revenue also need to be considered? Interviewer - You decide Q- Ill go with increasing user engagement and retention because MSDN is a pretty well known website and been out there for a while now. Also, once we have user engagement and retention taken care of, revenue will follow Interviewer - Sure MSFT mission is to empower every person and org on the planet to achieve mo"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

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

Chen J. - "Leetcode 347: Heap + Hashtable Follow up question: create heap with the length of K instead of N (more time complexity but less space )"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

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