Microsoft Product Manager Interview Questions
12+ Microsoft Product Manager interview questions drawn from real candidate reports. Sources include 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode. Questions span every stage of the Microsoft Product Manager loop: OA, phone screen, system design, behavioral, and onsite coding.
What to Expect in the Microsoft Product Manager Interview
The Microsoft Product Manager interview process typically runs 4 to 6 rounds depending on seniority level. Based on candidate reports in the LeakCode database, the loop usually includes a resume review, an online assessment or coding phone screen, one or more technical rounds, a system design round (for senior and above), and a behavioral or values round.
Difficulty skews toward medium and hard LeetCode-style problems in the coding rounds. System design questions test breadth (component selection, scaling, trade-off reasoning) more than deep implementation. Behavioral questions are tied to the company's stated values and principles.
Microsoft Product Manager Questions (Sample)
PM Internship Technical Phone Screening?
I have a phone screen coming up for Microsoft's PM internship. I assumed at first that it would be purely behavioral/about my resume because it's just a phone screen, but the confirmation email said i
Microsoft | SDE2 | Bangalore | 31 May 2024 [Reject]
I\'m writing this post to share my experience interviewing for an SDE 2 position at Microsoft in 31st May 2024. I have done MTech CSE from a Tier-1 College and...
Microsoft | SDE2 | Offer
Introduction I have ~5 years of expereince and was earlier working at a well known B2B product company. I finished my 4th round 2 weeks ago and have not received any...
Most Pathetic Microsoft Interview Experience after 8 rounds - L61
Microsoft Interview Experince Education: Tier 3 College TC: ~34L YOE: 3 in PBCs (including MAANG) (Currently SE2) I recently got a chance to interview with Microsoft and it was probably one of the worst...
Microsoft Interview || SDE-1
Intervieweed for the position as SDE Status: 2 YOE as SDE at an fintech start-up Total round : 5 Round - 1. Online assesment : Two dsa question and one sql query Round -...
Microsoft | SDE | Noida| Dec 2021-Jan2022 [Reject]
Round 0 : Online Test on Codility (90 minutes) Pretty simple. Didnt remember though. I was able to code both in 40 minutes Round 1 : Q1. Design a stack such that maximum frequency...
Microsoft (Rejected )but was pretty close
Recently gave the microsoft interview in August 2021 . Gave the first round ,it went completly off ,thought that the game is over after the first round only ,the question asked...
Oracle | Software Engineer | Austin | Oct 21
Status: Experienced (Currently employed) Position interviewing for: Senior software engineer at Oracle Location: Various/Remote Date: Oct, 2021 Cleared the preliminary screen 1. Problem was a BFS based solution to traverse a list of lists where...
MicroSoft | SDE2 or senior | Redmond | March 2020 [offer!!]
Experience : almost 9 years top 2 company School: top 5 CS in US (BS degree) I have applied several position in MS jobs site within 2 months 2 weeks ago manager contacted...
Microsoft | SWE1 | Monterrey | Sep 2019 [Rejected]
Position Information #### Current Me Status: New Grad (May 2019), BS CS Position: Team Leader | SWE Location: Monterrey, M\xE9xico Date: January 2019 #### Applying Job Status: New Grad, BS CS Position: SWE1 at Microsoft Location: Redmond, WA Date: September...
Microsoft | SDE Intern | Redmond | Dec 2018 [Reject]
Position : SDE Intern Location : Redmond Grad student MSCS Phone Round : The interviewer all behavioural. "Tell me a situation where" kind of questions. The interviewer was really nice and got a...
Microsoft | Onsite - Event (non Azure)
Questions - 1. Given an array, find the maximum length subarray which sums up to 0. (Sometimes they ask for minimum length too.) 2. Implement the following funtion - public String...
Difficulty Breakdown
6
easy
1
medium
Based on 12 questions with difficulty labels from candidate reports.
Interview Rounds
Here is how the Microsoft Product Manager questions in the LeakCode database break down by interview round, based on what candidates reported:
| Round | Questions in Database |
|---|---|
| phone screen | 4 |
| oa | 4 |
| system design | 2 |
| recruiter | 1 |
| manager | 1 |
Most Common Topics
Question Recency
1
2025
4
2024
1
2022
Question counts by interview year, based on candidate-reported dates.
How to Prepare for the Microsoft Product Manager Interview
Use the LeakCode question database as your primary research tool. Filter by role (Product Manager), then by round type to focus your prep on the specific stages in your upcoming loop. Sort by recency to see what 2026 candidates actually faced.
- Start with questions from the last 12 months. Interview processes change and recent data is the strongest signal.
- Cross-reference questions that appear in multiple sources (1p3a, Blind, Glassdoor). Multi-source confirmation means a question has stronger recurrence probability.
- For system design rounds: focus on the question patterns, not individual questions. The same design principles recur across many prompts.
- For behavioral rounds: map your experiences to the company's stated values before the interview. Most behavioral questions at top companies are derivatives of a small set of core leadership competencies.
FAQ
How many Microsoft Product Manager questions are in the database?
12+ questions from verified candidate reports. The count grows as new reports are scraped daily from 1Point3Acres, Blind, Glassdoor, Reddit, and LeetCode.
Are these questions from real Microsoft interviews?
Yes. All questions are sourced from actual candidate interview reports, not generated by AI. Each entry links back to its source URL where available, and questions are tagged with the year and round reported by the candidate.
How current is this data?
LeakCode updates daily. The database is filtered to exclude duplicate and low-quality entries. You can filter by interview year to focus on recent cycles.
Does LeakCode cover Microsoft OA questions specifically?
Yes. The database includes online assessment questions tagged with round type. See the Microsoft OA page for a dedicated view.
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