Microsoft product manager interview questions
169 questions asked in Microsoft product manager interviews: 100 product design, 20 strategy, 15 metrics, 8 estimation, 16 behavioral, 10 AI & technical. Each has an answer guide, and you can practice any of them in a mock interview.
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Product design questions (100)
- How would you improve Outlook for the use case when people get overwhelmed by number of emails received after returning from a vacation?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Microsoft Teams?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.Google · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve Microsoft OneNote?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve the MS Teams search functionality as a Search PM at Microsoft Teams?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a car sharing platform like Uber for disabled people?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a Supermarket for older people.Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a bookshelf for kids.Google · Product design · Easy
- Design a Multi factor authentication app for the visually challenged.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a better way to find a roommate in a new city.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design Netflix for Senior Citizens (Goal: Increase engagement time).Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a touchscreen table for restaurantsMicrosoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a task assignment form for an app.Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a product to speed up the cooking process?Google · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve the experience of a customer visiting your physical retail store?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a cell phone for a two year old.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a cafeteria app for employess?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a product for job seekers to create resumes and find the best matching jobs easily and quickly.Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a product to improve the lunch experience in XYZ company.Google · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a phone for kids aged less than 5 years?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- Design a fridge for a person in a wheelchair.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a cab-sharing service inside a chat application.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Which apps do you use on your cellphone on a daily basis and why?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a globe.Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve Coursera?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you reduce waiting time at popular rides in an amusement park?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a kiosk for people in rural areas to find manual jobs easily.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a blender for the visually impaired.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design an online news service that provides curated news content that can be trusted by the masses.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Imagine that you are a product manager at Uber. And you want children to use Uber as an independent user. How would you tackle this problem? Feel free to either build a new app or modify existing app.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a photo sharing app for a visually impaired person.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a product for FB or Google to help people relocate.Google · Product design · Hard
- In the growing age of working from home, what should Microsoft invest in to make this Work from Home more productive than it is today? This could be a new product line or enhancements to an existing product line for Microsoft to win in this new age of remote working.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a digital library for kids below 5 years.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a search engine for enterprises.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Suggest a new feature for a card game.Google · Product design · Easy
- Design a theme park in the US where the goal is to increase the user satisfaction of those who visit theme parks. How do you justify your design with metrics?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Pick a cause you are passionate about - example climate change, education, hunger, health, etc. - and design an app for it.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- You are a Product Manager at Uber. Design a smartwatch app.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design an application to enable citizens capture and access their medical information.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you increase the usage of YouTube?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a food delivery app?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a news aggregation service specifically tailored for the elderly market.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Using AI/ML, how can Amazon detect and prevent fraud done by retailers listed on Amazon e-commerce websiteAmazon · Product design · Hard
- Design a cell phone for children.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design an app for people who want to re-marry.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- As the owner of a small grocery store, if you notice long queues at the checkout, how would you go about reducing them?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a travel app specifically for families?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a radio alarm clock for the next generation.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you increase user engagement on Microsoft OneDrive?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- You work in an ice cream shop and step into the back for a few minutes. You return and see a large group of people waiting. How would you serve them?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- You are the PM of a Media Company. Your CEO ask you to create an app for the company's newspaper. What would you do?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a door for the visually impaired.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a Browser for children aged 7-14 years?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How will you identify the decline in usage of Azure?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a cab service for the elderly?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design Microsoft Outlook.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- You were a PM on Microsoft Surface and Delta asked you to design the perfect airline entertainment system. You decide the features, scenarios, and users. What would you do?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design some time management or universal calendar kind of app.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve the Outlook app?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a product that increases the consumption of fruit in the US?Google · Product design · Hard
- What's your favorite Microsoft product and how would you improve it?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve the search for charities on Bing?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a solution for online learning.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Design a phone for someone who is visually impaired.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve adoption of the Bing search engine in India?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve trust in the Bing search results for healthcare?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a product to help children who lost access to education in developing countries due to covid.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a solution for a family to have safe digital experience.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- How will you design to reduce the storage space of a mobile phone?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How will you go about personalizing MS Office?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design an automated car?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- Improve the battery life of all Windows computers.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a wireless speaker system for XBox.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a family wide photo sharing app? What about if someone in the family was vision impaired?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a microwave oven that could be used by everyone in the house. ÂMicrosoft · Product design · Medium
- How do you solve the traffic problem in Seattle?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Improve the lock screen experience of mobile phones and how you can justify the design with metrics.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a product to compete with Slack.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- What is that one product feature that would change the landscape of Devops/GitOps?Google · Product design · Hard
- Suggest a new feature for a PUBG mobile game.Google · Product design · Easy
- Improve the experience of a customer in a shoe store?Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- As a Netflix Product Manager, how would you improve the Netflix subscription model?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- How will you improve Google Maps in the remote area for non-tech oriented people?Google · Product design · Hard
- You are a product manager on the WhatsApp team at Facebook. Recommend a new integration with WhatsApp. The only requirement is it must be innovative and needs to intersect with Google Maps.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design an expense management system.Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- As a PM in the Microsoft OneDrive team, ideate and prioritize features and capabilities that would enable OneDrive to become the most preferred storage solution for all personal needs such as sharing photos and videos, etc.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- As the PM for the Microsoft Word app on the Android team, design voice interaction features that would deliver simplified productivity experiences for saving time and improving efficiency.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Walmart is noticing that a lot of kids ( aged 10-15) are visiting the stores and shop. How will you design a shopping cart for these kids?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- How would you decide whether you should remove the room keys for check-in at hotels? Talk about the design (product and system).Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a platform or dashboard for sellers on Amazon. Also talk about the success metrics for such a platform/dashboard.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design an education product for blind children.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Imagine that you had to build a start-up. What would you build & how would you measure its success?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design Microsoft’s Enterprise Metaverse.Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Design a tool to collect customer feedback on an app (any app).Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- Design a parking lot.Microsoft · Product design · Easy
- How would you design an application to help Microsoft employees connect socially within the company?Microsoft · Product design · Medium
- You are a PM at Microsoft Health AI. Open AI has launched ChatGPT Health. How would you build a Product to compete?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- The CEO of Microsoft walks into the room and asks for a recommendation. What idea would you propose, and why?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
- Microsoft is expanding AI integration across its products. What AI-driven feature would you add to Microsoft Office, and why?Microsoft · Product design · Hard
Strategy questions (20)
- You're the PM for WhatsApp and you have $1B to invest. What would you do?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- What will be the strategy to launch a product that already captured around 70-80% of the students market? The catch is "As the students are graduating, new students are also coming in." Take an online furniture rental company for reference.Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- What should Microsoft Teams' product strategy be for the next 3 years?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- What will be your release strategy for Facebook Reactions? How will you monitor the release?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- Evaluate the upsides and downsides of building a super app — an app having all major B2C features including entertainment, e-commerce, food ordering, hotel booking, cab booking, chat, holiday planning, gaming, med ordering, service booking, etc.Google · Strategy · Hard
- Evolve a GTM strategy to acquire 1 million new users for Bing on Android.Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- You are a PM of Microsoft Edge. How will you identify the potential areas which can help to increase the market share of Edge?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you go about launching a "video message" functionality in a communication app that gets used by over 100 million users?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- Microsoft is thinking of launching a premium color version of the Surface Pro tablet. How would you quantify the benefits of this service?Microsoft · Strategy · Medium
- If you were the PM for the Windows phone, how would you make it successful?Google · Strategy · Hard
- What is your take on recent talks about Microsoft acquiring TikTok US?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you build a website from 0 to 1?Microsoft · Strategy · Easy
- Which is better — touchscreen or traditional dials and knobs for a car dash screen?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- You are eating in your company cafeteria and someone taps you on your shoulder. It's your CEO asking you what the company should do next. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
- You are the CMO of Make my Trip . I have asked you to increase booking by 10 % via coupons. Is it doable? and how does it impact the bottomline?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you design a Covid-19 vaccine rollout for the United States?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you monetize a park?Microsoft · Strategy · Medium
- MasterCard is losing market share in India. As a PM, suggest a strategy to present to leadership for regaining and growing the market in India.Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you decide which artificial intelligence features Microsoft should prioritize next in Microsoft Teams?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
- If Microsoft wanted to attract more startups to Azure, what product changes or offerings would you focus on first?Microsoft · Strategy · Hard
Metrics questions (15)
- How would you measure the performance and health of a Netflix Original?Microsoft · Metrics · Hard
- You are a PM for LinkedIn Trust Team. A number of senior influencers at LinkedIn have complained that they receive innumerable spam connection requests and they threaten to leave the platform or launch a tirade against LinkedIn. What do you do?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- You notice a spike in the number of user-uploaded videos on your platform in June. What do you think is the cause, and how would you test it?Microsoft · Metrics · Medium
- Pick any favorite product of your choice . Find any one functionality you find missing in the same product which would make life simpler.Microsoft · Metrics · Easy
- How would you measure the success of Zoom?Google · Metrics · Medium
- How will you deliver a project during the unseen pandemic situation with a contract already signed?Microsoft · Metrics · Hard
- How would you measure the success of Messenger Rooms?Microsoft · Metrics · Medium
- A drop in engagement is observed in Microsoft OneDrive. How would you investigate the issue?Microsoft · Metrics · Hard
- Uber's MAU had gone down a few months back in August. Explore the reasons why that might have happened, and what would you do? What can be done to receive warning signals of this beforehand?Microsoft · Metrics · Hard
- You are the PM for a superstore chain. One store has been loosing profit YOY. What metrics would you request to help you investigate?Microsoft · Metrics · Medium
- How would you make sure that search results on a search engine are relevant?Microsoft · Metrics · Medium
- What makes an event successful and how do you measure that success?Microsoft · Metrics · Easy
- How will you double the Uber Pool revenue?Microsoft · Metrics · Hard
- Given a situation where you are a PM for a TravelTech company, what is one metric that you would build for the product leadership team?Microsoft · Metrics · Medium
- As a PM at Microsoft for Xbox, how would you establish goals and metrics for the digital content store?Microsoft · Metrics · Medium
Estimation questions (8)
- How many balls does it take to fill a 16x16 ft room?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How would you increase the revenue of MS Powerpoint?Microsoft · Estimation · Medium
- Estimate AWS's total annual revenue.Microsoft · Estimation · Medium
- How many pizzas would you need to circle the earth at the equator?Microsoft · Estimation · Easy
- What is the revenue of Bing?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How many iPhones were sold in India in 2022?Microsoft · Estimation · Easy
- How many people use Excel now?Microsoft · Estimation · Easy
- Estimate the weight of an aeroplane. How would you go about calculating it?Microsoft · Estimation · Medium
Behavioral questions (16)
- Tell me about a time when you used data to influence/persuade people.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you had conflict with a team member or a manager.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with engineering and what the outcome was.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a situation where things did not go as planned. What did you learn from it?Microsoft · Behavioral · Easy
- One of our customers reported an issue with the .Net software in our open forum and threatened to switch to another platform. How would you handle this issue?Microsoft · Behavioral · Medium
- How do you prioritize among competing features?Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you've had to change the way you work.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Why did you choose product management as a career?Google · Behavioral · Easy
- How would you motivate the team to stack hands around your idea?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you approach developing leadership skills in a team setting?Microsoft · Behavioral · Medium
- Choose a product you have at home and tell us what feature you like about it.Microsoft · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you have had to drive change.Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a product you managed from idea to launch.Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you failed.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Why is Microsoft Outlook your favorite MS product?Microsoft · Behavioral · Easy
- Describe a situation where a client made an unreasonable request and how you managed it. What were the outcomes?Microsoft · Behavioral · Medium
AI & Technical questions (10)
- Create an API design for third-party integration for payments.Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- How will you design a web service that enables other developers to create online chat applications?Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- How will you design a mobile version of MS Word and ensure real time collaboration within this app?Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Write an algorithm for a robot that has to get from point A to point B in a room.Microsoft · AI & Technical · Medium
- Design the security for a chat/messaging application.Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Design a system that can detect fraudulent use of Microsoft Word.Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Explain the architecture of your current or past product in detail.Flexport · AI & Technical · Easy
- Design a video chat infrastructure. How do you handle the scalability of the system with the least amount of cost?Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Design a pipeline for file processing to ensure completeness and reliability.Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
- You need to refresh or update or migrate database without affecting clients. How yould you go about it?Microsoft · AI & Technical · Hard
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