Microsoft Solutions Engineer
Posted Sep 23, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a Power Apps or Power Automate solution you built that a business team still relies on. What problem did it solve?
What they are checking: Whether they have delivered Power Platform solutions that lasted and made a real difference to users.
Tell me about documentation or training you created that helped people use a system on their own.
What they are checking: Whether they can make solutions supportable through clear docs and training, which the posting stresses.
What would you do
A critical Power Automate flow starts failing randomly and the business team is upset. How do you troubleshoot it?
What they are checking: Whether they can diagnose throttling, connection and data issues calmly while keeping users informed.
How do you find automation opportunities when business teams don't know what to ask for?
What they are checking: Whether they can uncover manual work by asking good questions and observing how people actually work.
About the work
How do you decide whether a business request should be a Power App, a Power Automate flow, or something built by the development team instead?
What they are checking: Whether they know the platform's limits and pick the right tool rather than forcing everything into low-code.
You'd own the Power Platform environment. How would you set up governance so citizen developers can build without creating a mess?
What they are checking: Whether they understand environments, data loss prevention policies and ownership that keep a platform healthy at scale.
How do you design a Dataverse data model for an app that several teams will use?
What they are checking: Whether they think about relationships, security roles and growth instead of building one-off tables.
Tell me about a PowerShell script you wrote to automate user setup or reporting in Microsoft 365.
What they are checking: Whether their PowerShell skills are practical enough to save real admin time across Microsoft 365.
How do Entra ID and Microsoft 365 security and compliance settings affect what you can build on the Power Platform?
What they are checking: Whether they consider identity, permissions and compliance up front rather than as an afterthought.
Where do you see Copilot Studio fitting into a company like this, and where would you be careful?
What they are checking: Whether they think practically about AI agents, including data access and accuracy risks.
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