THE PRACTICE LIBRARY
Microsoft interview practice questions
Practise designs for shared infrastructure and products used by teams. Explain access, reliability and the choices behind your design. Then rehearse an example of how you worked through a disagreement or influenced a decision.
Think it through.
Say it out loud.
A practice collection for Microsoft, with sourced system-design associations and general behavioral exercises. It is not an official question list.
13 questionsPick one to begin
- 01Disagree with a teammateCollaborationPractise
- 02Design a rate limiterInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 03Learn from a failureLearning from failurePractise
- 04Design an A/B testing platformInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 05Design an over-the-air update systemInfrastructure and platformPractise
- 06Design presence and live cursorsCollaborationPractise
- 07Design RAG for company documentsAI systemsPractise
- 08Lead without authorityInfluencePractise
- 09Take ownership of a problemOwnershipPractise
- 10Make progress with unclear requirementsDealing with ambiguityPractise
- 11Deliver under a tight deadlineDelivering resultsPractise
- 12Act on difficult customer feedbackCustomer focusPractise
- 13Make a difficult trade-offJudgementPractise
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Pick a question
Read the brief and choose what you want to work on.
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Talk it through
Explain your thinking. Respond to follow-ups. Draw when a design needs it.
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Find your next improvement
Use the feedback from your interview to decide what to practise next.