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      Program Manager Intern Interview

      8 Mar 2012
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Redmond, WA
      No offer
      Positive experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied through university. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at Microsoft (Redmond, WA) in Dec 2011

      Interview

      After the on-campus interviews, I was selected to take part in an on-campus interview. They flew me out to Redmond and provided hotel and food costs. There were a couple dozen other people interviewing that day at the same time, though best I could tell everyone was interviewing with different groups within Microsoft. I interview with the Office group. As the position was a Program Manager, I got asked mainly design-related questions. I interviewed with four people: three managers and one PM. Whiteboards were provided to show my thought processes and work; the interviewers were more interested in hearing me work through the problem than if I reached the "right" solution, though I'm sure that's still important. Each interview was about an hour long, and there was a little downtime between them. I had issues (apparently) with seeing the big picture when designing a solution and had a tendency to get hung up on details that are unimportant during design. I was not offered a position at the end of it, though the experience was overall very positive. The whole process took about 6 hours, and was mentally exhausting. Some of the questions I was asked: 1. Design a tablet app I would use in the kitchen. 2. Describe the most complicated technical problem you've faced. 3. Pick a piece of software with a UI problem, and how you would solve it. 4. Describe in as much detail as possible what happens between when a user submits a URL to a web browser and that page is displayed. 5. Design a GPS system for 16 year olds.

      Interview questions [5]

      Question 1

      Design a tablet app I would use in the kitchen.
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      Question 2

      Describe the most complicated technical problem you've faced.
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      Question 3

      Pick a piece of software with a UI problem, and how you would solve it.
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      Question 4

      Describe in as much detail as possible what happens between when a user submits a URL to a web browser and that page is displayed.
      1 Answer

      Question 5

      Design a GPS system for 16 year olds.
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