Stripe Product Manager 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

Jane D. - "My approach to dealing with difficult stakeholders has always been: Engage - Directly engage with the stakeholder, meet or chat Listen - Listen to what they have to say, patiently. Understand - Understand their POV, even if it is impossible at some times Ask - Ask clarifying questions. Why? When? What? Engage again - Keep them in the loop until there is closure For example, we were in the final stages of a very important, strategic project for our organization. I was leading th"See full answer

Aabid S. - "We had a huge launch on September 1st of this year where we completely redesigned our application from the grounds up and also migrated to a new platform (React.JS). This project took us 8 months and the launch was a huge deal for the team. Unfortunately the launch wasn't as smooth as we expected and despite doing multiple rounds of QA, some major issues cropped up in the core part of the app right after launch and our client was quite upset since it was disrupting their day-to-day workflow. "See full answer

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

Ayinde B. - "I was working for my friend building streams at venues across the Chicago land area for FGC (fighting game tournaments), I adjusted and engineered his equipment to be set up permanently that's until covid came around at least. I used OBS to give visual appearances to stream watchers. So we're talking about subscribe, follow, and donation notifications and things of that nature for viewers to know they contributed in one of those ways. I set up proper sign-up scheduling for participants to lock t"See full answer

Shiva P. - "When customer is not worried about quality but only worried about delivery"See full answer

Sameer S. - "I: Design a banking app for kids S: Sure, let me start with clarifying questions. What is our goal for building this app? I: To create financial literacy early in childhood and also increase our customer base. S: Sure. Are we going to launch it globally or in any specific geography or demography? I: Globally. S: Sure, Any resource or time constraints to keep in mind because I need to prioritize the features on the roadmap based on that? Also, are we launching it on iOS or Android? I: No resource"See full answer

Kaitlyn M. - "System architecture diagram. Define API params, responses, tradeoffs between caching and webhooks to update message delivery status."See full answer

Rajesh V. - "As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily. I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"See full answer

Umang S. - "Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product. Concern - In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product Action Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"See full answer

Ahna R. - " I would start by making sure we agree on what "improving Stripe Payments" means. What specifically are we looking to improve or are we focusing on improving the experience for a particular user group? Do we mean improving the experience for the developers building on Stripe or for the users checking out using Stripe? Once I got clarity I would share my proposed outline for a brainstorm: I would start by revisiting Stripe's mission and defining how Payments fit into that goal. I would then t"See full answer

Matan S. - "What are your top 3 favorite apps? (after picking one) How would you improve it? YNAB - You need a budget Robinhood Chase How would you improve YNAB? Clarifying questions What's my role? I'm a product manager at YNAB Why do we want to improve YNAB? Is there any specific goal? Structure YNAB - I'll share some information on YNAB Ynab's mission is to create the best budging app and empower people to gain control over their money and their life. Ynab's business model is a"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions Do we mean the Google Play store or Apple App store or some other app store? : Google Play Store Do we mean to calculate the number of apps as in 2024? : yes Are we looking at any particular data slices like in a particular country/ for a particular geography etc.? : No, I want the overall global number And we mean to calculate total number of apps that are registered on Play Store and can be searched and accessed by a user, am i right? : Yes Okay, here's how"See full answer

Product V. - "\\\Start by saying thanks for the questions\\\ Apple maps is a utility product that allows users to navigate from point A to point B and find transit. It is exclusive to Apple devices Ask Clarifying QQ - What is the definition of the business owner - <500,000 USD in revenue per year Why you are targeting this segment - Apple maps can be a platform of choice for the business owners Why the current consumer version is not suitable - Not suitable to the needs of the SMB How do you define"See full answer