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Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Jun 25, 2011
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5.0
Very Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2011 (took a day)
Phone Screening, Phone Interview, Group/Panel Interview
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Nov 6, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Feb 2007 in Redmond, WA (took 2 months)
Had initial phone screen for position, then talked to two different people to screen for my technical depth. Once I made it through that I was flown to the main campus for a few interviews and then asked to present my strategy on the product. Once I presented to a group I waited to hear back. Typically between me and two other people. Didn't get the interview but it was a thorough and challenging process.
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I got the interview through an Employee Referral and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview, a 1:1 Interview, a Presentation and a Skills Test.
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Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Aug 17, 2009 — 1 of 1 people found this helpful
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Negative Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Jun 2009 in Redmond, WA (took 2 days)
Having previously worked at MSFT, I knew exactly what to expect. I do feel sorry for those unfamiliar with the company. The logistics and details of the interview process were haphazard and last minute. The position I interviewed for was cut from their budget days later and it took them OVER 1 MONTH to get back with me to tell me that they were still trying to figure out the headcount situation. Poor HR experience at what is otherwise a good company.
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The interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Mar 22, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Positive Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed Dec 2008 in Seattle, WA (took 2+ weeks)
Communication started through contact with headhunter in Feb 08. Interviews were delayed till Dec.
Interviewed with a Strategy team for one of the company's flagship products.
The interview consisted in multiple 1o1s with senior management, including:
- a case interview on marketing
- multiple strategy questions re: possible future strategic options for the product
- questions on a product I liked (web 2.0) and how I would improve it.
- questions on product development process and my previous experience on the subject.
Overall impression of management impressive.
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I got the interview through a Recruiter and the interview consisted of a Phone Interview and a 1:1 Interview.
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Senior Product Manager at Microsoft
Posted Mar 14, 2009
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4.0
Difficult Interview
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Overall Neutral Experience
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Interviewed and No Offer
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Interviewed May 2007 in Redmond, WA (took 2 days)
Seems like the role was agreat match for the skill set so heard back from a recuriter of the Office Live team within a couple days.
There were three different HR people who emailed me, one who scheduled the interviews and two who met me in person on the day of the interview.
The first thing I found out when i got to meet the HR folsk before strating the 'loop' that included 5 different people from the team, and its partenr teams. The HR had communicated wrong times for when the people were avialable - so I would be actually travelling to a differnt location first and all that. I did not get a real good feelign about how this HR team worked :) is it really that difficult?
Then I met the first person - who would be my manager. he was great and the interview questions were about my previous experience. I answered relating back to what was expected from me in this job and how my previous experience would help me come 'running' into this role.
The next person was alady who asked questions that came out of a book - like ' how do you manage conflict', difference of opinion etc. - a whole behavioral interview.
The next two people were from teams that worked with the hiring team and had fewer questions and was again a bit about how I handled situations in team building as well as about my opinions about the online technologies, business models etc.
The last interview was the managers manager. His style of interviewing was - tell me why we should hire you ?' What is ROI ? How would you measure ROI etc. More hardcore. Felt like he wanted to find a breaking point. Quite interetsing.
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