Microsoft is a smart company but a lot of silly questions will be asked if you go for an interview in Microsoft. The bad thing is, a lot other companies copied Microsoft questions for their own interviews. In my opinion, these questions make little sense and can hardly test your qualifications, but some interviewers just want to have fun to watch how you lose you mind in front of these silly questions.
Now, let’s be silly:
How are Jelly Belly beans made?
How would you redesign an ATM?
How would you design a coffee maker for an automobile?
How would you design a keyboard for one-handed users?
Why is a manhole cover round?
How many gas stations are in San Francisco?
How many cars are their in the USA?
How many pennies would fit in this room?
You hired someone to work for you for 7 days and had a gold bar to pay them. The gold bar is segmented into 7 connected pieces. You must give them a piece of gold at the end of every day. If you are only allowed to make 2 breaks in the gold bar, how do you pay your worker?
How do you integrate computer technology into an elevator system for 100-story office building? How do you optimize for availability? How would variation of traffic over a typical work week, floor, or time of day affect this?
You have 4 jars of pills. Each pill is a certain weight, except for contaminated pills contained in one jar, where each pill is weight +1. How could you tell which jar had the contaminated pills in just one measurement?
Define a user interface for indenting selected text in a Word document. Consider selections ranging from a single sentence up through selection s of several pages. Consider selections not currently visible or only partially visible. What are the states of the new UI controls? How will the user know what the controls are for and when to use them?
How would you explain how to use MS Excel to your grandma?
What kind of software you can write to run a microwave oven from a computer?
You have a clock with lots of moving mechanical parts. You take it apart piece by piece without keeping track of the method of how it was disassembled. Then you put it back together and discover that three important parts were not included. How would you do about reassembling the clock?
If you could gather all of the computer manufacturers in the world together into one room and tell them one thing they would be compelled to do, what would it be?
Suppose you enter your home and hit the light switch, but nothing happens, — no light floods the room. What exactly, in order, are the steps you would take in determining the problem?
Imagine an analog clock set to 12 o’clock. Note that the hour and minute hand overlap. How many times each day do both the hour and minute hands overlap? How would you determine the exact time of the day that this happens?
Imagine a disk spinning like a record player turntable. Half of the disk is black and the other is white. Assume you have an unlimited number of color sensors. How many sensors would you have to place around the disk to determine the direction the disk is spinning? Where would they be placed?
One train leaves Chicago at 15 mph heading for Boston. Another train leaves form Boston at 20 mph heading for Chicago on the same track. If a bird, flying at 25 mph, leave from Chicago 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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