Shopify Product Manager Interview Questions

Bipin R. - "As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow, Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... ' Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey) Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc) Share why are you looking for a new role Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Shen W. - "For self achievement, The product manager builds useful products for users and makes the world better. For the team, The product manager can work with the team, and leverage the team resources to make things happen, which is more impactful. For the company, Pm are usually problem solvers, help companies to solve problems and grow better "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

Hadrien M. - "Walk through user need and discovery, GTM process, beta planning, execution and measurement, results and learnings"See full answer

Exponent - "Before we begin, it's important to understand what the interviewer is testing with this type of question. This is a Strategy Question that tests an interviewee's ability to create compelling arguments from high level information, discern motive, and think strategically. We can split this question into two views: is Spotify's high churn rate okay or not? Let's see the argument that is bad, and then the opposing side. High churn is bad We'll first give the naive argument here — that churn i"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Favorite Product question with a slight twist. We have a constraint: picking an e-commerce store. This should be relatively easy since we use e-commerce stores every day. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before we begin: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? How did competitors solve it in the past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? **How wo"See full answer

Jiin S. - "I would firstly see what's the trend of the sales by monthly, daily, and yearly to see when was the decline started and what happened during that time. I would also look at the sales by different customer or product segmentation to see what segment had the most decline in sales. Then, I would make some hypothesis where like for this age range customers with this product segment had a decline in sales due to XXX and we would increase the sales by YYY with this new feature. Then I would design the"See full answer

Exponent - "This is one of the core behavioral questions you should expect in any interview. For this behavioral question in particular, we like to break things down into two parts: Listing the weakness How you're actively trying to improve For this solution, let's say our biggest weakness is being too detail oriented. Here's one potential way to answer this question: > My biggest challenge is I sometimes am too detail oriented that I miss the forest from the trees. This can cause me to go down rabbit"See full answer