Microsoft Interview Questions
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North Star Metrics & Experiment Design
Product Sense: Define a North Star Metric and Experiment (Microsoft) Context - Choose any Microsoft product you know (e.g., Teams, Outlook, Azure AI)....
Cross-Team Conflict Resolution & Product Launch
Behavioral Question: Cross-Team Leadership, Conflict Resolution, and Course Correction Context: In a Product Manager HR screen, you may be asked to sh...
ML Pipeline Stability & Evaluation
Scenario: Stabilizing a Time-Series ML Pipeline You are the product manager for a system that uses time-series machine learning to predict a numeric t...
Enterprise Process Management Tool Design
Product Design: Enterprise Business-Process Management (BPM) Context You are a Product Manager tasked with designing an end-to-end Business-Process Ma...
Behavioral Decision-Making & Improvement
Behavioral & Leadership Prompts — Product Manager (Onsite) Context You are preparing for an onsite Product Manager behavioral/leadership interview. Ex...
Collaboration, Customer Obsession & Influence
Behavioral & Leadership Interview (Product Manager Onsite) Context: You are interviewing for a Product Manager onsite focused on behavioral and leader...
Behavioral Focus: Collaboration, Customer Obsession & Influence
Behavioral & Leadership — Product Manager (Onsite) Context: You will be asked to share past experiences that demonstrate how you operate as a Product ...
Behavioral & Leadership Fit at Microsoft
Microsoft Product Manager Onsite Interview – Behavioral & Leadership Context You are preparing for an onsite interview for a Product Manager role at M...
Design a cloud console main page
Scenario You are building the main landing page (home page) of a cloud service console that a user sees immediately after logging in (e.g., similar to...
Assemble DNA payload strings from tagged fragments
You are given a list of DNA-like fragments. Each fragment is a tuple: - start_tag: string - end_tag: string - payload: string A valid DNA chain is for...
Solve four classic algorithm problems
You are given four independent coding tasks. For each task, implement the required function. --- Problem 1: Zigzag level-order traversal of a binary t...
Implement a calendar with non-overlapping bookings
Problem Design a calendar booking system that stores half-open time intervals [start, end) (inclusive of start, exclusive of end). Implement a class w...
Find longest substring without repeating characters
Problem Given a string s, return the length of the longest contiguous substring that contains no repeated characters. Input - s: a string (may contain...
Discuss proudest project and conflict handling
Answer the following behavioral questions in depth, demonstrating ownership and leadership: 1. Proudest project and ownership - Describe the projec...
Design local sports team recommendation system
Design a recommendation system that suggests local sports teams to users. High-level requirements: - Recommend sports teams that are relevant to a use...
Merge overlapping intervals
You are given an array of intervals, where each interval is represented as a pair of integers [start, end] with start <= end. The intervals may be uns...
Find lowest common ancestor in tree
You are given the root of a binary search tree (BST) and two distinct nodes p and q that are guaranteed to exist in the tree. Task (BST case): - Find ...
Count integer pairs satisfying 1/x + 1/y = 1/N
You are given a positive integer N (\(1 \le N \le 10^6\)). Consider the Diophantine equation: \[ \frac{1}{x} + \frac{1}{y} = \frac{1}{N}, \] where x a...
Find max consecutive elements with sum below target
You are given: - An integer array nums of length n, sorted in non-decreasing order. - An integer index such that 0 ≤ index < n. - An integer target. S...
Find shortest substring with n unique letters
Problem You are given a string s consisting of lowercase English letters and an integer n (1 ≤ n ≤ 26). Find the length of the shortest contiguous sub...