Microsoft Business, Products & Culture Questions
Understanding Microsoft’s business model, product portfolio, strategic priorities, competitive landscape, and corporate culture, including values, leadership style, and workplace practices; aimed at interview preparation and company-specific analysis.
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You inherit a microservice on Azure with unexpectedly high monthly cost. Leadership wants a 40% cost reduction without increasing tail latency by more than 10%. Propose a prioritized plan including profiling, autoscaling policies, instance right-sizing, caching, storage tiering, reserved capacity, and measurable validation steps.
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Enumerate the key global privacy and compliance frameworks Microsoft must consider when building products (for example GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA). Explain why engineers need to incorporate privacy and data protection into design decisions and give one concrete technical change you'd make to design to satisfy GDPR principles.
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Explain the main differences between Microsoft's revenue streams such as software licensing (Windows/Office), cloud subscriptions (Azure), advertising (LinkedIn/Bing), services, and hardware. For each stream, describe one way engineering decisions directly affect revenue or margins.
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Discuss how Microsoft's leadership principles such as growth mindset, One Microsoft, and customer obsession should influence hiring criteria, code review practices, promotion criteria, and performance evaluation within engineering teams. Provide concrete rubric items or policy suggestions that embody these principles at scale.
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Explain accessibility and inclusive design principles Microsoft applies (perceivable, operable, understandable, robust). As an engineer delivering a new Office feature, outline specific development and QA steps to ensure the feature meets accessibility standards and how to measure compliance.
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