Microsoft Program Manager Mock Interview | A System that Detects Fraudulent Use of Microsoft Word

If you want to get a program management job at Microsoft, you need to be prepared for all possible scenarios that might happen during the interview.

Sandeep, who recently went through and landed a Principal Program Manager (PM) job at Microsoft, talks about how he prepared for the PM interview. He demos a sample interview question and also gives you tips on how to prepare for your PM interview at large tech companies.

In this video, we will discuss how to answer the question of what you'll do as a Microsoft Program Manager as you build a system that detects the fraudulent use of Microsoft Word. Join me and Sandeep in this mock interview as we walk through this scenario and provide our insights.

In this video, you'll learn the following
- How to Prepare for the PM Interview
- How to Ask for Feedback During the Interview
- How to Properly Design and Structure a System During an Interview
- How to Land a Program Manager Job at Microsoft

Key Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:18 Interview Tips and Tricks
3:20 Interview Proper + Question
4:14 Clarifying Question + Gathering Information
6:00 Asking For Feedback + Presenting Approach
8:30 Presenting Target Personas
9:00 Narrowing Down Target Persona
10:25 Presenting Information
12:08 Gathering Information
13:41 Designing the System
15:46 User Journey/Cases
19:22 Focusing on Specific User Journey
20:29 Asking For Feedback
21:13 Presenting Ideas
23:16 Clarifying Questions
24:00 Presenting Clarifications
26:00 Presenting Designed System
28:02 Design Flaws Scenario #1
30:26 Design Flaws Scenario #2
33:15 Design Flaws Scenario #3
36:55 Clarifying Questions
41:30 Conclusion, Feedback, and Suggestions
44:42 More Interview Tips and Tricks

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[ravikanth]

Am due for PM Interview with MS next week. Would like to take more tips from Sandeep. If possible would like to connect with him. Thanks much for the nice conversational video.

[rajathslr]

What I learnt: the way he attempted to understand the question, he was able to bring in personas for a software problem, he used his personal experience.. These I wasnt able to do in my exercise... What I felt good about my approach is, dividing the scenarios into problem and solution space, listed down the devices, users, external factors in the problem space, in the solution space I first had a feature for devices to validate the license(hash code with mac address, email registered, license key) and send information on connection with internet, then a Saas application to track the responses from all devices.. I would request someone to tell me if at least the initial approach sounds reasonable

[Michael_De_La_Rosa]

Fantastic insight. Thank you for putting this together.

[InProgressIO]

Did he get a Program Manager or Product Manager !!! Liked and subscribed.

[abhirb]

But in the first place why are we talking about Ms word connected to internet at all as the product is supposed to be a offline product right. Let's say my laptop's internet connectivity is lost and I won't be able to connect to internet until I get it fixed from a technician, so in this case I won't be able to use ms word until I get this fixed. Which should not be the case as I have purchased word with offline usage in mind.

[mansinghhansda]

I think the solution Microsoft has already given is Office 365 but that's one line answer .