Microsoft Interview Riddles
With the help of our readers, along with some careful research, we've collected this set of riddles that have been given to candidates interviewing for jobs at Microsoft. Founded way back in 1975, Microsoft is the home of many brilliant minds, some of whom probably had to figure out a few of these riddles to get their jobs.
Don't be fooled though: these Microsoft interview puzzles aren't easy. If you've never seen them before, try to figure them out without peeking at the solutions.
And if you've heard of any Microsoft interview riddles that aren't on this list, let us know by emailing us (info at bigriddles dot com) or by posting them on the riddles forum.
You have two lengths of rope. Each rope has the property that if you light ...
Ten pirates find a buried treasure of 100 pieces of gold. The pirates have a ...
The King calls in three wise men and tells them to all close their eyes. ...
Two trains are traveling toward each other on the same track, each at 60 miles ...
There is a prison with 100 prisoners, each in separate cells, which are sealed off, ...
Two robots are placed at different points on a straight line of infinite length. When ...
Two words are anagrams if and only if they contain the exact same letters with ...
You stand before a 100-story building with two eggs. Using only these two eggs, you ...
There are 1 million closed school lockers in a row, labeled 1 through 1,000,000. You ...
Your friend pulls out a perfectly circular table and a sack of quarters, and proposes ...
You have twelve balls, identical in every way except that one of them weighs slightly ...
A swan sits at the center of a perfectly circular lake. At an edge of ...
People are waiting in line to board a 100-seat airplane. Steve is the first person ...
You are visiting NYC when a man approaches you. "Not counting bald people, I bet ...
Why are manhole covers round? Do manhole covers really need to be circular?
