What north-star metrics should Microsoft PowerPoint be looking at? How do they differ from the metrics that Excel or Word would use? Easy
Execution Imagine you launched a new Azure service for small and medium businesses who are trying to move workloads to the cloud. What are some success metrics you would use? Medium
Execution What metrics would you look at if you wanted to figure out whether the latest version of Windows is secure enough? Medium
Execution Prioritizing features and handling trade-offs Easy
Execution You are the PM of a video streaming platform. You log in one day and notice that monetization metrics have dropped by 80% overnight. What would you do? Easy
Technical Tell me about an A/B test you ran in one of your past projects. Did you decide to ship the feature? Why or why not? Medium
Execution Design an elevator system for a high-rise office Medium
Product Sense Make micro-tipping on social media easy Easy
Product Sense Pick an appliance you use regularly. What's one button or other "widget" you would remove from it? Medium
Product Sense Suppose you were deployed to an Azure customer’s site and tasked with understanding their needs and customizing Azure solutions to fit their needs. What would your process be? Hard
Product Sense Design an app for a furniture company, such as one that makes desk chairs. What would the key features be? Hard
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 Design an app to help people complete their tasks. Medium
Product Design Asked Feb 2026 You are a PM, and your engineering team has just completed the design of a new Bluetooth mouse. What are the top 5 use cases you would test this mouse against to determine if it's an excellent product? Medium
Product Design Design a new PaaS offering that solves auto-scaling for SaaS engineers on the public cloud. How would you differentiate from existing providers? Medium
Product Design Asked Feb 2026 Redesign the Xbox controller so it’s easier for new gamers to use. Medium
Product Sense Suppose you’re a PM on Bing, and users are complaining about poor rankings of search results. What would you do to better understand their needs and to fix the problem? Medium
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 What’s a product you use a lot, even though it isn’t very well designed? What’s the single most important design improvement it should make? Medium
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 What’s your favorite app? How would you improve it? Medium
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 How would you improve GitHub for enterprises? Medium
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 What would you improve about VSCode or another code editor you use frequently? Also, what would you do to make it better for enterprise customers? Medium
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 You are a PM at Flipkart (an Amazon competitor in India). Design a product that helps sellers on the Flipkart platform do better and attract more buyers. What would you do if, despite your best efforts, this feature failed? Medium
Product Sense Asked Feb 2026 What would your GTM plan be for a hypothetical new Azure feature that helps small retailers improve their ecommerce offerings? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Suppose you were launching an Airbnb competitor. How would you take on Airbnb, which dominates the vacationhome-rental market? Medium
Strategy What do you think is a good way to get Microsoft 365 customers to start using a new Office product? How might you use this new product to increase these customers’ probabilities of renewing their Microsoft 365 subscription? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 How would you convince enterprise Windows customers to switch to Edge? What if they were (somehow) still using Internet Explorer? Medium
Strategy How would you double the usage of Microsoft OneNote, given two years and two dozen engineers? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Propose an idea to get small businesses to start using Azure’s hybrid compute features. Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Tell me about a time when you had to greatly increase your product's revenue. What did you do? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 How many gaming-related videos are uploaded to YouTube every year? Medium
Strategy Estimate AWS’s total annual revenue. Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 How many grapes could you fit in the Pentagon? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Estimate the total annual sales, in dollars, of staplers in the US. Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Estimate the number of Google Searches that occur every second. Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 If Microsoft wanted to launch a new subscription service, what do you think it should be? Medium
Strategy Should Azure worry about Google Cloud? If so, which services or products should Azure leadership pay close attention to? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Should Microsoft make Microsoft Office work better on Chromebooks? Medium
Strategy What should the Xbox organization build next? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Azure’s blockchain service shut down after just a few years. If you were to reimagine Microsoft’s approach to crypto, what new products would you propose? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 You run into Satya Nadella in the gym, and he asks you what Microsoft should do next. What do you tell him? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Walk me through a tough strategic choice you had to make on one of your past projects. Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Name 10 uses of a plastic credit card that don’t involve paying for things. Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 How could you help people look at their phones 50% less often? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 There are two doors leading out of a room: one leads to infinite riches, the other leads to a hungry dragon. Each door has a guard in front of it. You know that one guard always lies, while the other always tells the truth, but you don’t know which guard is which. You can ask one guard one question before you decide which door to open. What question do you ask? Medium
Strategy Asked Feb 2026 Tell me about a time when you wanted to rally your team behind a cause or idea. How did you appeal to their emotions? Did it work? Why or why not? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Tell me about a time when you failed. How did you grow from the experience? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Suppose you want to switch your product to a new programming language or framework but meet with resistance from senior engineers. What do you do? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 What is the biggest challenge you've solved as a PM? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Tell me about the thing you're most proud of. Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Suppose you have a big review with company (or org) leadership coming up soon. How would you prepare for it? Whose input would you gather, and when? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 What is your preferred communication style with developers on your team? How does that differ from the way you communicate with other PMs? Medium
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