Interview Questions

Ekta M. - " Honestly, the first question should be can you please explain the question in detail. Below is my breakdown of this question What kind of furniture market? Online or store-based? Will Google produce the furniture or will it be an aggregator? Once understood let us ask more clarifying questions Why does Google wanna get into this space? Is it to increase revenue or engagement? Is there a region that Google is thinking of starting in? I**s there a problem to be solved? What is the motivation"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question to make sure that I'm analyzing the right feature - is this the notification bell that is in the Facebook app and site? (assume Yes) Tapping on it opens a drop-down that captures items and activities that the user should be aware of? (Yes) Ok, I believe I'm clear on which feature you're referring to. My approach: Customer problem and value proposition Meta's mission and north star metric Customer journey and notification bell use case Success metrics on value del"See full answer

Jazmia H. - "Weak point: suggested something that YouTube Music already does- offering the service free to Premium members. Rebounded by saying the lack of user awareness is a pain point and how it can be mitigated- by frequent check-ins by way of notifications and emails Strong point: discussed overall strategies of global expansion, marketing and innovation with pros and cons for each approach. Settled on discussing an innovation piece combining ranked recommendation of YouTube music as well as personaliz"See full answer

Ajinkya P. - " I would ask some clarifying questions to refine my objective and know about our users? What do you mean by experience? Travel, food, short stay, long stay, dating, event, work, airport, registration? - Improve Food, Travel, Event experience, which can be a short or long stay. What do you mean by the movement to a new city? International travel/ within a specific country (designing solution for any country?) or any geography? - within a country suppose India What is our business objecti"See full answer

Prateek S. - "Before jumping in to answer, I want us to be on the same page regarding a few things: I am the PM for Coinbase app; not for coinbase pro or wallet etc. The very fact that a token will list on Coinbase increases the price / market activity around the token. We want to create a process which takes this into consideration. Users trust coinbase. Therefore, the assets listed on coinbase need significant vetting before they can be put on the system. Technology integrations - How much work"See full answer

Push S. - "STAR story weaved around the project 0 to 1 execution with all the technical tradeoffs, issues, and success metrics involved."See full answer

Anonymous I. - "Great question, first some clarifying questions: I assume that we're talking about meta disrupting the travel industry? Or generally When we say travel industry, this could include modes of transportation, scheduling transportation, what to do when you're there etc.? Are we focused on business travel? Leisure travel? I'm going to assume for the sake of scoping down that we're going to be focused on Leisure travel because business does not have as much pain, and on the flip-side o"See full answer

Rita V. - "Gardening product for Meta Clarifying question: Is this going to be a new product? Or part of FB/IG? Gardening as a work? Pleasure? Lets start with META mission - Meta’s mission is to bring people together and form a community. In our case of gardening, it can be smart to solve the case of tips and questions, specially for users that just start to do some gardening. Its a nice hobby and can bring people to work together and support each other. Users I think I will go and seg"See full answer

Mehul K. - "Clarifying Questions Are we building feature for YouTube Music/YouTube Video? -> YT Video has higher scope of user engagement so YT Video. YT Video has 2 forms of video content, are we focusing on long form, short form or am I free to chose ? -> YT Shorts and short videos have taken off lately so focus on it. Do we have a specific business goal with regards to building this feature ? -> We want to improve engagement. Do we want to build this feature for a specific kind of audience or"See full answer

Sahil A. - "Clarify: Feature for group messages and not individual messages The feature will be primarily used for Whatsapp and not other Meta products - Instagram, FB We are looking to improve engagement with this feature User: Pro users Users with moderate usage Users with no/little usage Prioritize - Users with no/little usage - as this user base could be greatly impacted Pain points: Too many messages are sent to the group and important messages are lost. Multiple message popp"See full answer

Maggie Y. - "8 Questions in 1 hr. no additional info is available from the interviewer, not much interaction. I still don't quite understand their objective."See full answer

Mallory M. - "The first thing I would want to do is understand why. Did the requirements change? Did we underscope the project? Were there unforeseen technical complexities? Did our capacity or velocity change for any reason? Did other more urgent priorities come up that shifted focus away from this? Next I would want to understand all of the risks of missing the launch deadline. Are other teams dependent on our work? Are there any external marketing communications tied our to launch? What will be the impact"See full answer

David P. - "delete"See full answer

Nagendra S. - "Assumptions: Platform: iOS/Android and Web Application Service Type: Renting Bicycles (hourly, daily, weekly), possibility of buying or selling Geography: Focusing on Asian markets, e.g., India, where bicycles are a popular mode of transportation Role: Product Manager at Microsoft Objective: Design an app focusing on customer engagement and new customer acquisition Setting the Stage: Why a Renting Business? Market Potential: In Asian markets, a si"See full answer

Farhan I. - "What software is being used to draw the design?"See full answer

Soumya S. - "In 2019, I was given a very important problem to solve. In a team of 3 we had to build a mobility assist device. The customer segment we would go for was something we could decide. The project was very close to me as I had lost someone I loved because of cancer and I saw how reduced mobility was a huge pain point in not being able to do physical activities. My team could only think of elderly people as the main target market. As the Head of Product what I did was: 1) I helped them dive even d"See full answer

Maulik S. - "To build a product using Generative AI (Gen AI), the process would involve multiple steps, from conceptualization to deployment. Here's a structured approach : 1. Identify the Problem or Opportunity Start with the need or opportunity: What problem do you want to solve? Is it to automate tasks, generate content, enhance creativity, or improve user experience? Example products:A content creation tool that generates blog posts or articles. A personalized customer support chatbot"See full answer

Andrew M. - "Users: Creators We can segment by category of videos made (ie. beauty, entertainment, etc.) We could also segment by age range. Let's just choose self-development channels Pain points: Want to bring you to their website Solution. Portal to their website. Whenever you click on the video, a tab pops up for their website. But, this could be annoying for viewers. Back to the drawing board. What if we made creators into viewers. I am a FinTech Product Manager"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Okay so the objective is to describe a product which I think is poorly designed despite of what market sentiments are around this and how the product is performing currently. Okay understood, so the way I would like to go about it is first I will state what are the factors which I look in a product to tell it is a good product. Then will see how a particular product doesn’t follow this and that's why I called it a poorly designed product. For me a product is great if it is having these qualities"See full answer

Anna D. - "Situation. Initially, my team consisted of young guys who were hired by team leaders based on hardskills. Previously, the company had just begun the transition from a process-based to a product-based approach. In the process of searching and selecting candidates, the interests of the team and the product owner were not taken into account. The candidate didn't pass a behavioral interview on soft skills. Thus, the team consisted of diverse and talented guys, but not very interested in fast wor"See full answer