80+ Cool Microsoft Interview Questions

The Microsoft interview is a job interview technique used by Microsoft to assess possible future Microsoft employees. It is significant because Microsoft’s model was pioneering and later picked up and developed by other companies. Initially based on Bill Gates obsession with puzzles, many of the puzzles presented during interviews started off being Fermi problems or sometimes logic problems and have eventually transitioned over the years into questions relevant to programming. Some examples of questions that the recruiter will keep in mind or ask a candidate include:

• If a bear walks one mile south, turns left and walks one mile to the east and then turns left again and walks one mile north and arrives at its original position, what is the color of the bear.
• Given a rectangular cake with a rectangular piece removed of any size or orientation, how would you cut the remainder of the cake into two equal halves with one straight cut of a knife?
• There are 3 baskets. one of them have apples, one has oranges only and the other has mixture of apples and oranges. The labels on their baskets always lie. (i.e. if the label says oranges, you are sure that it doesn’t have oranges only,it could be a mixture) The task is to pick one basket and pick only one fruit from it and then correctly label all the three baskets.
• You have 8 balls. One of them is defective and weighs less than others. You have a balance to measure balls against each other. In 2 weighings how do you find the defective one?
• Why is a manhole cover round?
• How many cars are there in the USA?
• You’ve got someone working for you for seven days and a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into seven connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make two breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
• One train leaves Los Angeles at 15mph heading for New York. Another train leaves from New York at 20mph heading for Los Angeles on the same track. If a bird, flying at 25mph, leaves from Los Angeles at the same time as the train and flies back and forth between the two trains until they collide, how far will the bird have traveled?

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