Blend Interview Questions

Tim W. - "Clarify "What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice. "Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product. Rephrase Question With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer

Ashley C. - "I follow a variation of the RICE framework when prioritizing how I ship product features. I start by looking at: Reach: Because the customer segmentation across our product portfolio is so similar, I tend to hold a lot of weight on product features that will maximize our customer reach with a minimal LOE. Impact: After establishing which customer segments will benefit from the product feature, I determine the urgency and estimated impact on each customer segment based on customer i"See full answer

Balaji G. - "This is the answer I have prepared. Please let me know your comments and how I can improve the answer. I have worked on many process improvement initiatives and projects. I want to share an initiative that I led and delivered while at my previous employer. It had a great impact on over 60 programs and projects across teams in six different countries. Analysts and program managers used to generate a monthly program performance report that deals with all aspects, including schedule, risks, costs"See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Let's imagine you want to open Google Maps, you type maps.google.com and hit Enter. Here is what happens: You type maps.google.com into the address bar of your browser. Browser completes the address, for example, maps.google.com → https://www.maps.google.com [Address decoding] → browser breaks down the URL into parts ‘https://’: protocol → how the browser should connect to the website Default is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) which shows up as ‘ http:/"See full answer

Christopher K. - "Background Context I'm a PM at a venture-backed SaaS in the legal tech space. We provide end-to-end contract management experience for our customers with the following features: Upload - Contracts signed in DocuSign, etc. automatically uploaded to our system through API integrations. Data Extraction - Contract terms such as payment terms and key dates are automatically OCRed and extracted using ML. Analytics - Contract terms are searchable, filter, and customize for reporting. Work"See full answer

Snehangsu B. - "In a recent implementation of a large core banking project where we were breaking away from monolithic architecture to microservice based one we faced a situation where customer wanted to have a single repository of user and role management. Since Micro service based architecture talks about individual entities for multiple product suite it was mandatory to maintain individual user base. Based on the customer feedback, we had to come up with an unique design of single user base and replicating"See full answer

Dev S. - "My Favorite Product is Grammarly unlike Microsoft spell checker, it helps correct the mistakes as I compose my sentences. It follows rules, patterns, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to improve users’ writing skills and improve their confidence in writing skills. I would evaluate this product by the following design principles. Usefulness Understandability Innovative It’s honest I can expand this criterion and explain how I evaluate prod"See full answer

rocketscientist - "I was the PM of a beta product which started to be utilized by a range of users. Although I maintained and communicated a road map that outlined upcoming features at a high level, it wasn't very clear to the users whether certain features were going to be improved, certain low level features were going to be added, or whether these were on our radar at all. We don't have a large team to support call desk or a marketing team. I was having multiple, one of conversations with different users and c"See full answer

Anonymous Cheetah - "First profile the URL/Webpage to see which components are limiting/blocking the loading of Web page. Based on the observation, identify if it is the latency, server, network or the sheer number of elements that make up the page. Accordingly plan the optimization strategy."See full answer

Vibhor R. - "As a product manager, my focus is to bring the what and why of the product and deliver the product in the promised timeline. With that said, I typically work closely with my engineering and onboard them during the planning sessions to have a say on the design and feasibility. I try to keep an idea where PMs are not the only responsible folks for ideation and engineering is free to pitch in their two cents. In addition, I typically try to do daily/weekly standup check-ins with my Developers and D"See full answer

Srinivas Y. - "I'll try to understand the consequences that lead to the change of Mind , and if i can influence the situation, will try to influence and give confidence with my previous project execution examples and take the lead in driving the project."See full answer

VictorSage - "The critical data to forecast projects with greater accuracy are Remaining Estimated work, Customer needed date, Cost of Delay."See full answer

Anonymous Chickadee - "was there a specific scenario given for the interaction?"See full answer

Sudhansu T. - "In Ideation phase, the below points should be concentrated on. Ideation Market research Competitor Analysis in the next phase it should be conceptualisation where we define the problem, find user persona and some of the feature priortization. Next phase has to be validation where we build the MVP, do user testing, Iterate. Then comes the prototyping, Development, QA, Marketing and Position. After which we launch the product. may be a soft launch first and the proceed to full launch"See full answer

Anonymous Dingo - "I look at a product’s quality through a combination of user impact, business outcomes, and technical robustness. 1) A good product solves a real user problem effectively and intuitively—usability, performance, and accessibility. I look at user feedback, behavioral data, and adoption metrics to validate this. 2) A good product aligns with strategic business goals Growing engagement, generating revenue, or supporting long-term scalability. 3) I assess how maintainable and"See full answer

Alex S. - "A lot of things..."See full answer