Asked Feb 2026 How do you use your skills and knowledge to help your teammates grow? Tell me about a few examples from your past work experiences. Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Tell me about a time when you persuaded a different team to change their strategy to better align with your team’s. Medium
Behavioral Tell me about a time when you had a miscommunication with a customer, client, or other external stakeholder. What happened? How did you resolve it? What would you do differently next time? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 What does “growth mindset” mean to you? How have you applied it in the past? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Why do you want to do program management? Why not another role at Microsoft? Medium
Behavioral How do you practice mindfulness in and out of work? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Tell me about a time when you felt “culture shock” on a new team or in a new company. What was unusual? How did you adapt? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 What are your biggest strengths and weaknesses? Medium
Behavioral Asked Feb 2026 Explain how you’d implement a minheap. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Suppose you wanted to build a fingerprint authentication API into Microsoft Edge, so users could sign into any supported website with their fingerprint. How would you build this API? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Design an algorithm to print the values in a binary search tree from least to greatest. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Create a phishing prevention solution. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Walk me through an algorithm you had to design for a past project. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Take your favorite board game and tell me how you'd implement it in software. How would you make an AI bot to play it? Medium
Technical What is a DAG? How would you represent a DAG in memory? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 How do you think micropayment apps like Venmo work behind the scenes? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Suppose you’re building a new collaborative code editor in the cloud, similar to GitHub Codespaces. What backend technologies and algorithms would you need to make this product work? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Describe the architecture and tech stack of the product you're currently working on. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 What do you know about the technical aspects of [team you're interviewing for]? Can you guess what our tech stack looks like? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 What's your favorite tech stack? This can be for web development, mobile, etc. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 What's a tough technical infrastructure or architecture decision you've had to make for one of your past projects? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 How does a priority queue work? How would you implement one? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Name a few interesting tech trends you’ve read about lately. How would you summarize them to a non-technical journalist? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Explain recursion to your grandmother. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Describe a few sorting algorithms and explain which one is the best. Medium
Technical What are the main differences between Java and JavaScript? Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Explain logistic regression to a non-technical person. Medium
Technical How does [a product made by the team you're interviewing for] work? Explain it to me as if I'm an average person, not a techie. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 Teach me about the differences between TCP, UDP, IP, and HTTP. Medium
Technical Asked Feb 2026 What are a few engagement metrics that you like to measure? Which ones are underrated or overrated? Medium
Metrics Asked Feb 2026 What's your go-to metric when trying to measure the success of a product? Why? Medium
Execution Design a way to make microtipping on Twitter easier. Medium
Product Design Asked Feb 2026 MLB has asked you to design a tablet that’ll go on every seat in a baseball stadium. How would you design the tablet? Finally, pitch it to Microsoft execs in 30 seconds. Medium
Product Design Asked Feb 2026 Design a smartphone for toddlers. Medium
Product Design Asked Feb 2026 Design a more convenient way to pay for parking garages. Medium
Product Design Asked Mar 2026 During the current pandemic, today's families spend a lot of time at home, where the lines between work life and home life are blurred. As a PM at Microsoft, design a solution to target the evolving needs of families in this WFH world. Medium
Product Design Asked Mar 2026 Redesign the Amazon Echo so it's better for people who are hard of hearing. Easy
Product Design Asked Mar 2026 What's your favorite Easy
Product Design Asked Mar 2026 Suppose you're running a marketing campaign to sell Surface tablets on a university campus. How would you run the campaign, and what facets of Surface would you emphasize? Medium
Strategy Pitch me a new developer tools product that Microsoft could build. What would your GTM strategy be? Medium
Strategy You're trying to get an old-school Fortune 500 company to use Teams. You can make a 30-second pitch to the CEO. What would you say? Easy
Strategy Asked Mar 2026 How many highway exits are there in the US? Medium
Strategy How many bags of almonds are sold in American supermarkets every year? Medium
Strategy Asked Mar 2026 Do you think American tech companies might want to pull out of the European or Chinese markets? Why or why not? Medium
Strategy Asked Mar 2026 How can Microsoft use big data more effectively? Easy
Strategy Asked Mar 2026 You're elected President of the US and want to get the country to switch to the metric system. How would you do it? Medium
Strategy What are three skills that you think product leaders should have? Which ones are you strong or weak at? Hard
Behavioral Asked Mar 2026 Walk me through [this work experience on your resume]. What interesting lessons did you learn from the job? Medium
Behavioral Walk me through the 3 most interesting lines on your resume. Hard
Behavioral Asked Mar 2026 Tell me about a time when you had to quickly change your product when external requirements changed (e.g. a customer needed a major new feature at the last minute). Hard
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