Microsoft Interview Training Program

Pass your interview using tried-and-tested learning tools. This content is biased towards benefiting the candidate, on what connects with success in job interviews, while saving you time from what doesn’t.

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Videos

Easy to follow advice on how to best answer any non-technical interview question.
  • Delivered as videos, goodies (e.g. tips, "Demo Story Bank") and action items (e.g. "Add your story")
  • Key behaviors & topics: Tell me about yourself, Conflict & Influence, Prioritization & Speed, Failure Questions, Vision / Strategic Thinking, Why this company and many more
  • Learning approach: reasoning by analogy through examples from various verticals (e.g. sales, technical, accounting) & exceptional candidates. First Principles reasoning by breaking down problems to core elements (e.g. functional/non-functional conflicts)
    • launched in 2019, 3 hours (& text version)

    Stories

    95% of candidates fail building a proper story bank, by their own standards. Go beyond (Google) docs or tabular (Excel) to build your story bank.
    • Add, revise, rank or label your stories - using both quantitative & qualitative indicators (e.g. revisions to stories ratio)
    • More than a dozen types of AI reports with comprehensive feedback on your answers, from 3 providers. (ChatGPT, Vertex, Cohere)
    • Best practices and guidance at every step
      • launched in 2022, 1000s of users

    Quizzes

    Practice your listening skills and learn to think on your feet in job interviews.
    • Practice identifying core behaviors in unfamiliar contexts
    • Interviewing tips and tricks
    • Statistics
      • launched in 2025, 100s of questions

    Microsoft’s 4 Cultural Attributes mapped to key sections in the training program

    1. Growth mindset
      2. [..] We need to be always learning and insatiably curious. [..] And we need to be open to the ideas of others, where the success of others does not diminish our own.

      Section in the training: Learning & Innovation

      [..] We need to be willing to lean into uncertainty, take risks and move quickly when we make mistakes, recognizing failure happens along the way to mastery. [..]
      Sections in the training:
      1. Ambiguity & Decision making (part 1, part 2)
      2. Prioritization & Speed
      3. Failure questions
      4. Deliver Results
    2. Customer Obsessed
      3. Sections in the training:
      1. Customer Obsession
      2. Vision & Strategic Thinking
    3. One Microsoft + Diverse and inclusive
      4. Sections in the training:
      1. Conflict & Influence (section 1, section 2)
      2. Strength & Weakness
      launched in 2023

    Pricing

    6 months

    $299

    • scenario: “one-off” interview; note: acess to the stories dashboard is perpetual.

    1 year

    $399

    • scenario: multiple applications within a year for this and other companies with similar interview processes (all high performing companies use behavioral interviews)

    lifetime

    $500

      scenario: long-term approach to interview prep with any company (on request, it includes access to any other training program)