Amazon Product Manager Interview Questions

Kirit K. - "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."See full answer

Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

Kong - "App design experience which involved a new technology"See full answer

Rolemberg J. - "I faced a problem about components re-rendering's and unnecessary requests API's which was causing performance complications in my applicactions. I had a structure that create, edit and delete task, so GET, POST, PUT and DELETE API's methods request was necessary and bring that to compliance without compromissing the performance is hard. I started involving componentes and async functions into the useMemo's and useEffect's to have more control, another improvement was take be careful with global"See full answer

Ash I. - "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"See full answer

Anonymous Crayfish - "Let me tell you about a time when I solved a problem at my previous company (one of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies). This was an internship and I was coming with almost 2 years of experience and 2 semesters of my graduate program. My experiences have mostly been theoretical or with startups. I've never solved problems at scale. The first week at this team was slow and relaxed, it was just onboarding. The real work started from the 2nd week when I felt like I was pushed into the ocean with n"See full answer

Scott S. - " Situation In the derivatives trading domain, timely and accurate data is crucial for making informed trading decisions. Our existing data processing system was facing challenges with latency and scalability, which hindered our ability to react swiftly to market changes. To address these issues, we designed a new real-time market data processing platform. Task The task was to develop a low-latency data processing platform that could handle real-time market data ingestion, processing, an"See full answer

Anonymous Angelfish - "Not at all impressed. Very simple problem he is solved"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Insighta Analytics, our team was planning to prioritize a marketing campaign focused on customer acquisition through social media ads. The marketing lead was confident this would yield the best ROI based on past success. I was tasked with supporting the strategy by analyzing customer engagement trends. But as I dove into the data, I started to question whether the current direction was the best use of our budget. I analyzed customer conversion data from the last two quart"See full answer

Ayush S. - "Consulted on building a mental healthcare marketplace, performed user research, and competitive analysis. Formulated business strategy shift from D2C to B2B and product roadmap for MVP, onboarded 100K+ users. Shift was based off changing market dynamics."See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time I saw a peer struggling was while I was at Google working in Mountain View. A fellow colleague of mine was consistently not meeting standards in his performance reviews and wasn’t sure why. He was upset because Google was his dream company and he wasn’t sure how to improve based on his feedback. Task - I was tasked to design a based VUI framework for our discovery space on smart displays. This colleague was acting as the VUI lead for the project while I acted as t"See full answer