One interviewer asked me to design a service for helping people book restaurants, walk through all the details to consider - basically seeing if I could go into depth and explain my thought process clearly. Another interviewer had me design a new feature for mobile - asking what telemetry we would need to drive the feature and how to represent this data it to customers.
Design a better post-office
what is your career goal in 10 years
Write some pseudo-code for a basic problem solving process/write an algorithim. (for a non-programming job).
If I hire you I am stuck with you for up to 2 years. What career path are you on? What next job are you working toward at Microsoft?
Design a product that allows a blind person to determine the amount of spices left in a jar.
Type will provide you with a case that you must solve. It will normally be an issue or problem they had in the past or a currently working on. They will want to see your thought process. They will be looking to see how analytical and creative you are.
Design a vending machine for an airport. What challenges or considerations are there?
Pretty easy question but it's one that you can over think by asking a lot of questions! You are going to have a showing next week for a new search program your making for enterprise businesses. Unfortunately, you have two large problems- 1) scalability 2) inputted data is getting lost in translation (u don't know where it is, but you can't view it in the end). You only can fix one before the showing, which one and why?
None of the questions were all that difficult and they mostly pertained to what I spoke to them about. With a program manager interview if you are confident and have strong interests in something specific, then steer the interview to a that interest. For example, I have a lot of interest with collaboration in China and whenever I brought that up, they used scenarios that had to do with doing business with China. It was great. The last interviewer asked me to design a calculator, which is a question someone else received in the glassdoor reviews so I would prepare for that one.
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