Microsoft interview notes, page 5 of 60

“This is the kind of open-ended product design question that sounds easy until you're actually in it.” 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 basic version felt manageable.” 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.

“My first instinct was to just describe the fill-and-pour steps without thinking about whether X was even achievable.” 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 naive approach with a stack or array is obvious and I think they expected me to start there, but the real question is the in-place version.” 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 fumbled this more than I expected.” 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.

“This was the whole interview basically.” 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 knew the trick was slope comparison but fumbled the edge cases for a while.” 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.

“Classic sliding window problem.” 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 went straight into capacity and throughput which felt wrong the moment I said it out loud.” 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 to view counts and completion rates, which felt obvious in retrospect.” 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.