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      Project Manager Interview

      21 Oct 2012
      Anonymous employee
      Redmond, WA
      Accepted offer
      Positive experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Oct 2012

      Interview

      Had a 30 min on campus interview in which they asked me to design a phone for a 6 year old. The way design problems work is that the candidate is supposed to come up with several ideas and then the interviewer would steer the conversation in a particular direction, at which point you start brainstorming again. For example for the "design a phone for a six year old" i started out with reasons of why the kid would want a phone. Then the interviewer picked one and we continued the discussion on to features the phone would have. For the 2nd round in Redmond, I had 4 interviews, three of which were an hour long and the lunch interview was 90 mins. They will make you feel extremely comfortable and will be very friendly. The interviewers talk to one another between the interviews so make sure to make a good impression on the first one (not that they are completely biased, but im sure it helps). (questions they asked me are listed below) Be prepared to talk to them about your personal or school projects and how you "solved problems". List your projects on your resume so then they have an idea already and can ask you specific questions. All of my behavioral questions were from my resume - "tell me about the challenges you faced in this project", "tell me what you did in this project", etc ASK QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU START ANSWERING!! I cannot emphasize this enough. If its a technical question, ask what format the inputs are available in. If its a design question, put yourself in the shoes of the person working on the problem and ask appropriate questions. The interviewer will be vague on purpose, to see if you can ask smart questions and find out details about the project.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      Find the angle between the hands of a clock.. (Ask questions like, is the input a spring that i have to parse?, is the output the acute angle?, etc)
      Answer question

      Question 2

      An airline carrier is losing a lot of bags. You have been assigned to help them out. What would you do? (see how vague this is.. you need to ask questions to clarify)
      Answer question

      Question 3

      You are a startup trying to design a new mobile online music player. (startup => you need to differentiate yourself from the existing music players)
      Answer question
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      Anonymous interview candidate
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