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My Microsoft Interview Questions
Written by shawnmor on July 18, 2005 – 8:38 pmA couple of the folks I had the pleasure of interviewing down at Stanford wanted me to update this post to include the questions I asked them. I’m not going to give them all away, and a couple of the more entertaining questions were:
- Which of Microsoft’s seven businesses would you sell? Why?
- You’re now the product manager for Fortran.NET. What are the top three features you want to add? (This one was a LOT of fun!).
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I had the wonderful opportunity earlier this week to travel to Philadelphia, PA, and visit some first-year MBA candidates at UPenn’s Wharton School of Business. What a brain vault! I was asked to help interview candidates for our MBA Intern program here at Microsoft. I was surprised how much Wharton has internalized blogging – there’s even some “officially-sanctioned” blogging going on over there. I’ve already asked them to add an RSS feed – we’ll see what happens.
I found out from a couple other folks recruiting that these little weasels send around the interview questions, so we had to change a lot of the fun questions between days. Since these are probably making the rounds anyway, and for those of you working on the “Complete Reference of Microsoft’s Interview Questions”, here’s a few highlights:
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Explain a database to a young child.
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Explain the Internet to your grandparents
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What is your favorite web site? Why? Now improve it.
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REST or SOAP? Why? Why not the other?
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Steve Jobs calls and asks you to improve the iPod. Go. (No bonus points for saying, “Add WMA support!)
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You’re in a boat with a rock, on a fresh-water lake. You throw the rock into the lake. With respect to the land, what happens to the level of the water in the lake – goes up, goes down, stays the same? Here’s a couple answers.
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