Interview Questions

Josephine F. - "How do you ensure that your process maps accurately reflect current workflows in a university?"See full answer

Garima B. - "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"See full answer

Anushka R. - "One key thing I learned that made everything easier for me as a data analyst was the importance of structured thinking and communication before diving into the data. Early in my career, I used to jump directly into tasks like data cleaning, ETL processes—without fully understanding the problem or defining the questions I was trying to answer. This sometimes led to inefficiencies, as I would have to backtrack or redo work because the insights weren't completely aligned with stakeholder needs. I"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Google Home is an app that is used by consumers to configure the smart devices for automating their home and making their home more reliable and easy to use. Clarifying questions : Do we have any time constraints by when we need to achieve this? IF we have to increase sales by 10x, it needs to focus on number of factors like increasing the partner base, improving user experience, and shift in thinking. What metrics we focus on Monetization - Making revenue 10x Number of"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. This could be confused with an expansion problem, but it's only asking for the risks. You should be thorough with the risks and identify as many as possible. Let's go over one possible solution: > Expanding to China could be a huge opportunity for Netflix, but it's definitely risky. I'd love to go over a few risks that we should consider. To me, the biggest risks are:Censorship > Chinese compet"See full answer

Frank A. - "Evaluate product performance metrics against projections, rationalize performance, and identify opportunities to optimize performance"See full answer

Spencer W. - "Just to clarify, I’m picturing that we have a install progress bar that we’re showing to the user, and for the initial stage of the install, we display one ad, then we show a different ad when the user is somewhere in the middle part of the installation, then show a third ad in the final step. Also, I assume that each slot must feature a different advertiser. First I’ll set the scene on how ad campaigns work in general then describe how we’d prioritize them and what to display to the user. A t"See full answer

Upasana S. - "Clarifying questions: What is a roofer? A: A person who constructs and repairs roofs. Should this include construction companies or the actual people who construct it, like masons, labourers? A. you can define the segment Any specific geography to operate in? No, any geography or worldwide can be chosen Does the company have a goal in mind? New product creation to capture a market. Can the product be a physical product? Yes. In terms of constructing roofs, there is generally no separate company"See full answer

Preetham m P. - "1. Clarify the problem Are we building a digital or physical product?- We are offering it as an application on mobile. Are we building a complete new product or as a new feature for existing airline booking apps (Goibibo/Makemytrip, etc.)? - New feature for existing booking apps. We can consider Goibibo as an example. What do you mean by improving experience?- Reduce wait times or optimize the time spent. What is the goal? Engagement or Revenue? - Engagement. Which is t"See full answer

Jeff H. - "Interesting question. I believe they now do this. Couple clarifying questions: Are we talking about the FSD feature specifically, or older legacy models as well? Is there any hardware needed in order to enable this feature, or is it purely a software update? Would people still be able to pay a set fee for FSD upfront, or is it up to me? Up to you. Goals: Let's think about Tesla's goals in this change. One could be adoption. The cost of 10k could be prohibitive for the feature up"See full answer

Anna H. - "Great. I’d like to break down this by discussing impacts of post investment decisions for the Pixel handset lines at two levels of micro and macro evaluation, which will be able to lead us to an evidence-based answer of what I think Google should continue to invest and ramp up their investment to hit their target ROI. First, closely looking at micro aspects, Google’s business model is a so-called multisided platform, generating either free search engines and monetizing contents for Internet use"See full answer

Praveen V. - "House buy is time-consuming and complex. (too many steps involved, from selecting a house, to agent, loan, closing, moving, knowing the place and people to settling down). Lets leverage power of fb and socialness to simplify house buying. we will create product for that users for home buying buyer ( for sake of simplicity - assume employed family with kids. local buyer) seller agent user flow for buying: Market research: understand the market, research area (friends, family ta"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Clarifying questions : 1. What is the product Hardware/software specific ? 2. Any particular analytics done or should it be covered as a part of the solution ? 3. Any resource constraints ? 4. Any timeline in particular ? In order to internationalize a product, the following steps could be done: Identify the market/regions : Based on, say, Google analytics, find the regions which has the most clicks / attention for our product Going wide vs Going deep : Is it a single region that we are"See full answer

Anonymous Sturgeon - "Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Demo, Retrospective, Scrum of Scrum, Burn-down Chart, Tasks, User Stories, Velocity, Capacity, Team-size, Story Estimation..."See full answer

Priyank S. - "clarify question- do you want me to focus on Home, wearables, automotive or any specific IOT product? Interviewer - whichever you want to focus Rephrase: So I believe our goal is to make life easier for users using Internet of things (IOT) product. Does that sound good? Interviewer - Yes Ok so if I understand it, I can focus on any IOT product. For me Internet of things product is the one which is smart and connects to internet and makes people day to day tasks easy. With evolution of 5G Interne"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer

Bg - "It is a very interesting question! Can I assume that the smell can be measured on a scale and it will be possible to identify something (like food) based on smell? I have no other question for now. Let me take a moment to review. ... We use smartphone primarily for communication (voice, video, internet), experience (ar, vr) and to get things done (apps). Smell brings a different dimension altogether. Here are some areas that I will research more. Convert smell data into something inform"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