Behavioral Interview Questions

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

Aishwarya J. - "Looking into licensing data for users to match with the validity of their plans , to set up reporting okr's and metrics from the ground up and future problem sculpting for future feature additions I developed the metrics from the existing data tables , with uniform interpretation for datasets used across teams, keeping the modifications done in alignment with the requirements of the stakeholders. Hypotheses for licensing metrics was laid out in a defined manner where it was feasible to cherry"See full answer

Books' B. - "Please Review. Thanks In advance! Situation: ABC Product Planners asked me to help them to migrate their one Excel-based Macro into the web application. After having a few rounds of interviews with Product Planners, I realized that the macro was not able to solve their current problem due to its limitation and business teams were convinced that it couldn't be resolved completely. The key challenges they had with their current macro-based solutions were: It was able to compute all bui"See full answer

John F. - "Around mid-2023, I was tasked with investigating the feasibility of selling access to our site to third-party vendors who wanted to use bots to automate processes for their clients. Some initial work had been done on this but it was very high-level and very little data or analysis had actually been done. When I was tasked with this the idea was to sell access to a special header that would allow vendors to by-pass our F5 Shape implementation, a bot defense tool. From a business and security pers"See full answer

S P. - "I was working for an Insurance company and I was the lead PM responsible for delivering HIPAA 5010 835 (statement of bill claims received vs paid) transactions to healthcare providers/hospitals For this initiative as a PM, I was responsible to create and prioritize features around file creation. I collaborated with cross-functional teams, engineers, DevOps. First I conducted sessions with claims adjudication, SFTP file transfer, security, and privacy, clearinghouse, third-party vendors and ensu"See full answer

Kapil P. - "Sounds like both the features requests address different problems, although it should be clarified in my opinion. I'd try to dig deep into why the customers are raising the requests to uncover the pain points. Questions like the following would help: "How are you currently solving it?" "What does it mean for you in terms of Cost or productivity?" (based on the context of the product) "Have you searched for an alternative?" Descriptive answers for the above questions should tell us if the"See full answer

Bajrangi C. - "As a Technical Program Manager at Amazon, I typically coordinate cross-functional teams to drive technical project execution, ensuring timelines and deliverables align with business goals. My day involves managing stakeholders, resolving blockers, and continuously optimizing processes for scale."See full answer

Malay K. - "For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework: 1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role) Give the project background and what specific problem it solved. 2. Align the project's objective and your role Be specific about your role: were you the le"See full answer

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

R S. - "One of the biggest risks I have taken was in a recent product, where we developed a new feature and released the feature externally without QA sign-off. Feature - Interactive Travel Itinerary Maps We had about ten days from the time we decided to include this new feature in the external launch. Usually, the biggest chunk of time in each release cycle was the sign-off from an external QA team. We fast-tracked the dev effort and completed the development of the feature in five days. Unfortunately,"See full answer

Astro S. - "Please provide a transcript. One grasps 150 words in a video, but can grasp 250 words when reading text."See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying Questions: Assuming this will be part of FB product. Assuming this is for the US and no major constraints in terms of finances or resources. Goal: To improve user engagement Travel Personas: Solo personal Traveler Group personal Travelers Business travelers Tour operators Transportation Companies (airlines, roadways, trains etc). Choosing to focus on group travelers because most personal travelers usually travel in groups and the volume of this user base"See full answer

Aabid S. - "I am the Lead PM for a product that analyzes calls made by prison inmates and looks for predictors of criminal intent. its primarily used by police investigators and the FBI. One of the main features we have in the app is Link Analysis which basically lists out all the calls an inmate has made for a specific time period. This feature was built before my time. When I joined, the first thing I did was to implement analytics in the app. Looking at our numbers, I noticed that usage was less than 1%"See full answer

Pavani B. - "Request inputs/feedback on my response below with regards to this question and ways to improve and if it looks apt for this question. As a TPM at xxx, I was responsible for delivering a feature that would provide prescription (medications) alternatives to users in the Prescription Shopping Consumer Experience App. The project had a tight deadline as it was something that our account management team promised to a client who wanted it for their employees. My goal was to ensure smooth development"See full answer

Dean Z. - "I will use below 4 pillars to rate and prioritize those 5 projects: Analyze the impact of those 5 projects, to our team and to the whole company maybe Find out if those 5 projects have any dependency between each other Clarify the timeline of each project Identity the status of resources to work on those 5 projects and also the status of their dependencies"See full answer

Karthik T. - "Our application has millions of users and significant load on file upload feature. Situation : In our legacy application we had a particular page which was accepting file uploads and it had the legacy way of selecting file uploads and page would redirect you to the next page or show an error message on failure. Task : I had regular calls with the customer who had reported issue multiple times on this application area. In my calls my I also understood that client was expecting some inno"See full answer

Sam - "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"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

Shashank K. - "Situation: Our company was going through tech stack updated and our team tasked to migrate existing code into Typescript(TS) and all future development to be written with TS within our codebase. TASK: Migrate existing codebase to TS and future integration to be TS compatible. ACTION: The team deep dived into picking up TS skill and learnt some basics and focused on delivering the migration in phases. I prioritised the files to migrate based on levels of complexity. I created a Fil"See full answer