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Describe a project where you had a surprisingly difficult time dealing with unstructured data. How did you overcome the obstacles and what tools did you use?

By asking this question, the Microsoft interviewer is revealing that their organization deals with unstructured data and needs to hire someone who has experience with this and can organize this type of data to make it usable. Your answer must include a specific example of how you accomplished this in a previous role to prove your ability to do it again.

"Unstructured data is difficult, but not impossible to work with while performing an analysis. The key is to utilize tools and techniques designed to effectively analyze this type of data. On a recent project, I was tasked with helping the sales team improve its customer relationship management process. I utilized a combination of a NoSQL database and Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) to collect and analyze the data, producing the results the sales team needed."

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