Product Strategy Interview Questions

Ankur B. - "If the CEO of YouTube asked you to double the total watch time of the site, how would you do it? Clarifying: --What: Mobile / Desktop | --Where: Global or some certain market? | Any customer segment? --When: How long to have this achieved? --Resource constraints: This is obviously going to come at the expense of something else. How is this related to YouTube’s other products - Music, Premium, Movies, Originals etc, or is this across all of them? Can I design a new feature? How has watcht"See full answer

Nitesh N. - "I would ask/investigate the following: Is this our core competancy of our company How long would it take to develop it in house and how much would it cost what will be the time to market of this feature or service when developed in house what is long term vision of this solution - do we expect that this will grow into becoming a major revenue stream for the company in future and the future of the company will be tied to it? What is our track record as a company building such a sol"See full answer

Patrick M. - "First thing I would like to consider is what is the potential opportunity to building an apps marketplace. Questions I would ask are: What’s the current user base of Microsoft Office Suite? What is that in revenue? Is it growing or declining? Where are users going to if they’re leaving? What are the most popular and least popular apps used in the Office suite? What are other apps that Microsoft Officer users use outside of the suite? Assuming that Microsoft Office has a massive us"See full answer

Anand T. - "Use face recognition as a preliminary step"See full answer

Andrea M. - "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."See full answer

Prasanth R. - "I will charge them based on subscription basis per user/per month with aggressive pricing."See full answer

Akhil S. - "solving too much demand and not enough supply; look at how many users are unable to find a ride within a reasonable amt of time (to be defined) would would increase prices everytime someone doesn't get a ride at small intervals. In a few minutes, the prices would increase to an equilibrium."See full answer

Rani D. - "Whenever you look at the launching a new product you might want to follow the following framework: Describe the product for e.g. you are considering launching amazon go. What does Amazon go does. And what is the problem its solving. For e.g Amazon go is a new age grocery store that lets you buy product without the hassle of waiting in long queues for checkout. Always ask clarifying questions to understand the scope. For e.g. what will Amazon go be used for. Are we aiming it for basic grocerie"See full answer

Arista V. - "Assumption: Considering the launch of a product r a service based company in a new market: 1) Need of the product / service - consumer needs 2) Presence of competitor and their market share 3) Consumer behaviour - can this be changed if such need doesn't exist explicitly( ex: ride hailing) 4) Existing price of the product 5) Marketing spend to launch in that market and opportunity to make revenue"See full answer

Tian H. - "google photos is a tool where users can edit, organize, search and backup their photos. It's a main contribution of users' google drive storage usage. To use google drive, users have 15GB free storage and they can purchase google one to get more storage for photos. considering with the phones and social media popularity, people are taking more and more photos/videos more than ever. Google photos becomes one of the key growth boosters of google drive and google cloud. how to triple the google p"See full answer

Cristina E. - "The main strength is the huge market size that it already has. Other strength is the way google works is really familiar to everyone who use android Challenge Increase the revenue if the volume keeps at the same level Keep being in the top of mind on the users with the high competence"See full answer

Carlos L. - "There are many companies I’m excited about, but none captures my heart and imagination more than Lego. I have great memories of playing with Lego. I remember the thrill and happiness after completing a set and the excitement to show it to my family, relatives and friends. From a product standpoint, Lego offers a myriad of opportunities for growth in today’s context in which technology is ubiquitous. **Lego has faced several challenges over the years from expanding their user base, tradi"See full answer

Priya K. - "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"See full answer