Microsoft Interview Question for Software Engineer / Developers


Country: India
Interview Type: In-Person




Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
1
of 1 vote

I will try to find out what all CATEGORIES of reasons could be causing this...
And all that falls under that category...

For example If People Are Having Better/cheaper Alternatives
then of what?
Low fares/better quality or what??


And then they could be mis informed...

- PM March 19, 2013 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

i would launch a survey targeting visitors of the other airport and analyze the causes for the unpopularity of mine

- sridatta August 27, 2013 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

I would rather go myself or send someone to the other airport, not as a supervisor of any airport but as a normal visitor and would analyse things so as to why I should prefer my own airport rather than the other one. Because you need to be more informed about the other airport's (read rival) informations in order to succeed or rather stay alive in a competition.

- Nandini December 17, 2013 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

Analyze possible causes of the turn over:
- # of flights (the other airport just has more flights available that's why people choose that airport)
- # of restaurants
- # number of amenities / vicinity of hotels
- proportion of delayed flights
- Ticket prices from your airport and other airport

Then I would run regressions on all these variables and see which one turn out to be significant in terms of explaining the turn over.

Then I would to t-tests of differences between the airports. For example, difference in mean travelers per day for two airports.

Then I would do sensitivity analysis of various attributes that predict traffic volume.

Then I would do factor analysis or Principal Component Analysis to identify the key factors that drive visitor volumes.

Then I would make predictions and forecast results of improving upon these factors based on the data observed.

- Waleed January 18, 2015 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

Assuming that people that used to come to my airport are now going to another one I would the following:
1) Ask the few people still visiting my airport a couple of questions: where are you traveling, where do you live and why did you choose this airport vs. another one.

2) I would then find out if what makes people comeback, is also the reason other people choose the other airports (location, flights, etc.)

3) I would compare all flight information with people's addresses and examine the data to get answers.

4) If everything above results in nothing significantly different between airports, I will then do a walk on both airports to understand if services offered could be the reason (e.g. parking, restaurants, customer service, cleanliness, etc.)

- ricardo@ontechies.com October 17, 2015 | Flag Reply
Comment hidden because of low score. Click to expand.
0
of 0 vote

Check the news, try take a flight at the other airport

- Anonymous January 18, 2016 | Flag Reply


Add a Comment
Name:

Writing Code? Surround your code with {{{ and }}} to preserve whitespace.

Books

is a comprehensive book on getting a job at a top tech company, while focuses on dev interviews and does this for PMs.

Learn More

Videos

CareerCup's interview videos give you a real-life look at technical interviews. In these unscripted videos, watch how other candidates handle tough questions and how the interviewer thinks about their performance.

Learn More

Resume Review

Most engineers make critical mistakes on their resumes -- we can fix your resume with our custom resume review service. And, we use fellow engineers as our resume reviewers, so you can be sure that we "get" what you're saying.

Learn More

Mock Interviews

Our Mock Interviews will be conducted "in character" just like a real interview, and can focus on whatever topics you want. All our interviewers have worked for Microsoft, Google or Amazon, you know you'll get a true-to-life experience.

Learn More