Interview Questions

Sreenisha S. - "Let me tell you about a time where a website I managed suddenly showed slow performance and the mistake on our side was it was unnoticed until a user reported the issue to management. As a PM for that project, I took full responsibility of the situation and worked with the engineering team to quickly resolve it. This mistake taught me the importance of focusing and monitoring non functional requirements as well in addition to new feature development /adoption where I was mostly spending my time"See full answer

Anonymous Crab - "Clarify: Are we specifically referring to the point in time after a customer places an order to a restaurant, in the context of Doordash? Or are we talking about a generic online order? (Assume former) I am going to walk through what I think our business and product goal is, followed by the users and their painpoints in the workflow after they place an order. Then I will prioritize which pain points to solve for based on business objective and some other factors, and finally brainstorm and prio"See full answer

Kiran M. - "The primary objective of Instagram Stories is to share fleeting moments and engage with followers in a more casual way, through photos and videos that disappear after 24 hours. Its also used to showcase all ongoing Instagram Live events. There are 4 user segments Story Viewers Story Creators (who posted the story) Live event creators Live event viewers No of stories posted per user per day -> How to nudge users to post more stories and tag their friends/location. No of stories view"See full answer

Bhavana J. - "First let me try to understand the metric: when you say traffic to facebook marketplaces, you mean that number of people clicking on the marketplace tab or landing on the marketplace section has reduced. Am I right? Ok, here's my approach: I will first try to narrow down the scope of the problem by understanding what the details associated with the drop. Then I will try to hypothesize on what all could have caused it. Finally I will try to propose a solution basis the findings. Understanding th"See full answer

Shasleen I. - "Clarifying Questions Who are we? Traditional elevator company or a new age tech startup Assumption: New age tech based elevator company Any constraints: Budget, etc. Assumption: No What kind of a skyscraper building: Assumption: Commercial. Includes office spaces as well as others Any particular goal with respect to building this elevator? Design best in class elevator providing the best user experience for passengers User needs - Users have the following needs when"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Defining metrics: Activation Mobile downloads New user registration Retention and Engagement Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups Monetization CAC LTV ARPU MRR Prioritizing: What matters most for WhatsApp right now is Engagement. I would therefore prioritize these three: Nb messages sent Average nb of contacts per user Nb groups"See full answer

Neelesh K. - "Grow market share of Bing by 5% Clarification: Are we focusing on a certain geography or Region where market share has to be increased? – Assume - All Regions Are we focusing on a particular device or platform? – Like Desktop/Laptops, Mobiles/Tablets, IOS/Android – Assuming all What is the Goal of increasing Market Share? – Assuming new users and driving usage among existing users. Do we have any user segment in mind or am I free to choose? – Assume you can choose Microsoft’s Mission"See full answer

Laura S. - "Clarifying questions: is this a brand new product, or are we improving an existing one? (i.e. are we going to have to migrate an existing codebase or are we starting from scratch?). are we resource-strapped (e.g. # engineers, time)? are there any specific priorities for the product, or should i leave it open-ended? Assume: brand new product, well-resourced, no specific priorities. It seems that there are two sides to this question: 1) technical evaluation of different languages, and 2)"See full answer

Darren L. - "JJ Zhou, co-founder at the previous company taught me this: if you want to get people build a boat, tell them how great the sea is. That advice guided me through challenges I face to get my team on board with my vision. When i became the payment PM where I oversaw the user checkout experience, I decided to introduce Agile approach and organized the workflow into Scrums. The challenge was most engineers and data-scientists in my team were from banks so they were comfortable with water-fall. On"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

شيماء ا. - ""When a customer makes a request, I always listen carefully and make sure I understand what they need. I stay calm, friendly, and professional."See full answer

Ashley C. - "I follow a variation of the RICE framework when prioritizing how I ship product features. I start by looking at: Reach: Because the customer segmentation across our product portfolio is so similar, I tend to hold a lot of weight on product features that will maximize our customer reach with a minimal LOE. Impact: After establishing which customer segments will benefit from the product feature, I determine the urgency and estimated impact on each customer segment based on customer i"See full answer

Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"See full answer

Ivan B. - "At Facebook, you notice a sudden spark in DAUs in Indonesia — how would you determine the cause of this? I'd like to clarify a few things before starting to brainstorm root causes to hopefully narrow down the number of possibilities if you don't mind? - Not at all, please go ahead... Over what time frame has this spark occurred? - DAU's have sparked over the past 3 weeks. Thank you! Next, what are we qualifying DAU as? Is it simply just a user opening the app at least once during the"See full answer

Will P. - "The first step is to clarify what the interviewer means by a sales decline. Questions I would ask here include: Did sales drop suddenly or gradually? What is the magnitude of the sales drop? Are sales down for a specific product? Are sales down for a specific channel (drive-thru, walk-in, etc.)? This series of questions is to make sure we are on the same page when we say 'sales are down.' We may not know the why yet, but the what should be easy to align on. Otherwise, how would"See full answer

A F. - "Clarifying questions: 1M users- are these paying users? Daily active users? Once we know which users, we look at certain areas of initial investigation for patterns: Dashboards: Is this a flaw in the dashboard, or metrics pipelines not running? (Assuming not a problem) Geography: Are these users in a certain geolocation? (Ex: China bans the use of Netflix?) Users segments: Are these certain age group (kids, where parents might have restricted) or first-time users (they watched only one"See full answer

Peter H. - "As a technology leader with enormous power and influence, Google has a significant role to play in global social responsibility. Right now, that means that Google must focus on how humanity can create a sustainable future. If I had unlimited resources, I would focus on the products that enable future mobility in sustainable cities. The success of Gogoro, the Taiwanese scooter manufacturer that has created a swappable battery pack system for small scooters, shows how green tech, consumer visib"See full answer

Raneem A. - "My ideal PM role will definitely be in that I can work smoothly with the inner team(tech, marketing, sales, etc) whether in collecting requirements or translating these requirements to the responsible tech team. To have the full hands of a product so that I can have ownership to enhance and improve the product toward the right vision, that matches the company and market vision as well "See full answer