Google Product Manager Interview Questions

Rahul J. - "Netflix Solves a problem that's mass market High importance and people actively looking for new solutions Value proposition Variety of content reasonable prices for tier 1, 2 and 3 cities Available on mobile, desktops and tablets Business model: subscription based, Revenue = f { # of users, lifetime of subscription, fee charged to user } --> Should Improve engagement to increase lifetime. User journey: Find content: Search for it / take a recommendation Watch it Give"See full answer

Anonymous Dove - "The experience at a DMV can be improved by modernizing the systems, processes, and design of the service. Some possible ways to do this are: Using digital technologies to enable online transactions, self-service kiosks, mobile apps, and chatbots. These can reduce the need for in-person visits, shorten wait times, and increase convenience and accessibility for customers. [For example, some states have implemented online driver’s license renewal, vehicle registration, and appointment schedul"See full answer

Nr 9. - "Assumptions: The question is for a PM working for a refrigerator startup company and for a domestic refrigerator (not industrial). The first model comes in the most commonly used form factor with fridge/freezer split, and it has standard cooling specifications. Target market is the US. The startup is for profit. Product goal: To make interacting with refrigerator easy, seamless and pleasurable for the blind. Target users and channel partners: Fully blind people between the ages o"See full answer

Kim L. - "Explore expanding beyond just two small roooms-- bigger rooms or a third room? Get insights from those who are teleporting about what the experience is like"See full answer

S G. - "If it's a product end to end, then there's a lot to say. If it's just a feature on top of a product then I will focus on the complexity and how I break complex tasks into small milestones to partner with XFN teams to nail it. Focus on situation, task, actions and results"See full answer

Pm P. - "Since success metrics is a very broad term, to dive deep into WCS - What constitutes success. What is the objective of the company/product, north star/mission of the organization or product? Dependent on the company, market, the industry they play in. As an example: Facebook's mission is now empowerment, bringing the people together and giving them the power to build communities. Every part of its product aligns in one way or other with this goal. Be it, its Web/Mobile platform, Instagram,"See full answer

Jaim - "Clarifying questions : What do you mean by many stakeholders, can you share more details on it. Who all are involved in opinions. General Approach will be : In order to reach somewhere, we need to HAVE one OKR and drive a hypothesis to validate if we are doing reach OKR. Since there are multiple stakeholders: I would create a PRD and conduct discovery sessions to understand their pain points + priorities. We can then use Ansoff Metrix to identify where we want to invest ? "See full answer

Aaron W. - "Clarification questions What is the purpose of connecting the DB? Do we expect high-volumes of traffic to hit the DB Do we have scalability or reliability concerns? Format Code -> DB Code -> Cache -> DB API -> Cache -> DB - APIs are built for a purpose and have a specified protocol (GET, POST, DELETE) to speak to the DB. APIs can also use a contract to retrieve information from a DB much faster than code. Load balanced APIs -> Cache -> DB **Aut"See full answer

Nidhi S. - "I am a book reader, so I use "goodreads" by amazon to track my reading. There are couple of things which can be done to increase user engagement on app. User engagement on goodread is creating profile tagging books - want to read, reading, completed marking up progress on daily reading. Engaging with friends and their feedback about books. Solutioning at each steps Creating profile - App respond time is 2-3 min, which is very slow as compared to any general app,its circling"See full answer

Amparo L. - "Hard worker, positive attitude and arrives ready to work with no emotional issues."See full answer

Anonymous Narwhal - "I'm seeking a role in which I can be continually challenged to devise innovative and streamlined solutions for complex issues, particularly with regard to the persistent soaking problem. I'm excited about the opportunity to not only excel in my own performance but also to empower and enable my colleagues to perform at their absolute best. My goal is to wield my influence and magnetic qualities to not only attract but also retain top-tier engineering talent, all in alignment with our shared objec"See full answer

Chelsea F. - "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"See full answer

Roy C. - "Note: This is my answer that I generated loosely while I was practicing this question. I didnt want to go down the product design framework as this is more of an execution question, so I came up with my own zombified framework to focus more on strategy + execution. Open to feedback on my answer - understand its not the most perfect! Question: How would I launch a digital library product as a Google PM Clarifications: Standalone product? : standalone Region specific: No (up to me) Goa"See full answer