Microsoft interview notes, page 46 of 60

“I went straight to a campaign metric story but partway through realized I wasn't really explaining the solution, just the data.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent the first few minutes trying to think of a regex approach and the interviewer kind of just waited.” 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.

“This was a lot to hold in your head at once.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer 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.

“I jumped straight to 'just sort it' and then caught myself because that's obviously not the move when K is tiny relative to N.” 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.

“I started with the obvious thing: just copy the whole set every time iterator() is called.” 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 into a framework about impact vs effort and kind of lost the thread halfway through.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight into features without thinking about who actually uses airport vending machines and why.” 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.

“The Uber framing threw me a bit.” 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.

“I jumped straight into features and kind of forgot to ask who the user actually is.” 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.

“I fumbled this a bit because I went straight into tools and timelines without talking about how I actually break down work or handle slippage.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Microsoft, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.