Microsoft Interview Questions

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  • “Devise a way to make sure there is always milk in my fridge.” – Summer intern candidate
  • “Show us an example with a website with great design.” – User Experience Design candidate
  • “How would you determine if a deck of cards is well or poorly shuffled?” – Software Development Engineer candidate
  • “Why would you not join Google?” – Senior Business Development Manager candidate
  • “Write a program to simulate the writing of a ransom note given a magazine from which letters can be extracted.” – Software Engineer candidate
  • “What did you think about Microsoft’s decision to launch Office products on the iPhone?” – Senior Business Planner candidate
  • “Why are manholes round?” – Software Development Engineer candidate
  • “How do you design a shuttle system to use within the Microsoft campus?” – Program manager candidate
  • “The infamous “clock hands” question — how many times do the hour and minute hands of a clock overlap in a 24 hour period?” – Software Development Engineer candidate
  • “Situational based: Your sales rep has messed up a sales quote with a long time customer, how will you use your influence to turn things around?” – Senior Consultant candidate
  • “How would you solve slow start up issues on a laptop/computer?” – Customer service advisor candidate
  • “Explain recursion to a 5-year-old kid.” – Software Engineer candidate
  • “Tell me how you would design an airport” – Program Manager candidate
  • “Given the time, how do you determine the angle between the hour and minute handle of the clock?” Software Development Engineer candidate
  • “How do you form relationships with team members who work out of state or the country?” Executive Business Administrator candidate
  • “Design a GPS for a 16 year old.” – Product Manager candidate
  • “Describe a difficult co-worker relationship.” – Senior Program Manager candidate
  • “Build a list of all words in a novel as well as a count of duplicate words” – Software Development Engineer candidate
  • “If you were in an elevator with the CEO of a company how would you explain the cloud in 90 seconds?” – Technical Account Manager candidate
  • “If you were standing in a crowd of people, how would you stand out?” – Site Manager candidate
  • “Your device has a stylus. How do you store it? How do you charge it? What kind of things can you use it for?” – Mechanical Design Engineer candidate
  • “Design the research plan for a brand new wearable product.” – Design Researcher candidate
  • “If you had a choice between two superpowers (being invisible, or flying) which would you choose?” – High Level Product Lead candidate
  • “The most unexpected questioning was from a female manager who wanted my specific experiences with sexism and misogyny in the workplace. She asked me many variations along this line of questioning.” – Program Manager candidate
  • How would you guide your grandmother if her PC wasn’t working?” – Support Engineer candidate

 

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