Microsoft interview notes, page 13 of 60

“I started rattling off ideas about translation apps before realizing I hadn't even scoped the problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Started with the obvious stuff, hashing, redirects, a basic key-value store.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to a star schema with a bookings fact table and dimensions for hosts, guests, listings, dates, and locations.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - System Design / Architecture round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I started by talking through what beaconing actually looks like before touching any syntax.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The RBF kernel answer is correct since it can create very complex decision boundaries that hug the training data too closely, but I second-guessed myself halfway through.” The rest of the author's notes on Machine Learning Engineer interview at Microsoft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I'd answered versions of this before so I wasn't totally lost, but I fumbled a bit trying to sound diplomatic without sounding like a pushover.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Behavioral / Leadership round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I picked a smart home device because it felt safe, but in hindsight that was probably the most generic answer in the room.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Pretty bare-bones problem.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Online Assessment (OA) round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into distribution channels and kind of forgot to anchor on who the user even was first.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Microsoft, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Took me a while to even parse what was being asked.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.