Product Manager Interview Questions

Brandy L. - "The North Star Metric for Google Photos should be: Monthly Active Users (MAUs) who successfully store, organize, or retrieve photos/videos. Why? This metric reflects Google Photos’ core value: helping users store, manage, and access their memories seamlessly. It ties user engagement with the platform's primary offerings: reliable storage, easy search, and organization. Supporting Metrics: User Engagement: Monthly Active User (MAU) ratio: Growth and retention trends. "See full answer

Atit P. - "I'd start by clarifying the purpose of the in-flight experience. Get more travelers? (adoption) Reduce customer churn? (retention) Gain additional revenue? (revenue) Lets say we want to offer an in-flight experience that drives revenue. It is intuitive that, customer expectations for an in-flight experience will vary based on the duration of the flights: Short haul flights (1 hour or less): Self-help options are better suited. While seating may be important, a slight inconvenience for"See full answer

Snehangsu B. - "In a recent implementation of a large core banking project where we were breaking away from monolithic architecture to microservice based one we faced a situation where customer wanted to have a single repository of user and role management. Since Micro service based architecture talks about individual entities for multiple product suite it was mandatory to maintain individual user base. Based on the customer feedback, we had to come up with an unique design of single user base and replicating"See full answer

P K. - "Assumptions: Part of the core FB product and not standalone app/ Education for children in 13-18 range Goal: To improve the education of children while building stronger social networks with their family/friends and thus further the mission of the company of bringing the world together and offering tools to form communities. Key user segments: Students (middle and high school) Teachers Parents For the purpose of this exercise, I would like to focus on the student user gr"See full answer

Anonymous Boa - "Clarifying questions: what exactly do we mean by travel product? Travel recommendation. Travel bookings( airlines/hotels) Itinerary planning etc. Is it going to be a completely new digital product or an extension of instagram? Assuming travel product here means recommendations/bookings, and it going to be an extension within instagram, lets dwell further: Meta's vision: To make the world a closer place by offering connections; build communities. Instagram's mission: To capture , c"See full answer

Anonymous Stork - "Roadblocks or obstacles are common when working on projects. It's essential to navigate them and quickly find solutions to ensure timely delivery and success of your projects. Steps to handle roadblocks or obstacles: Gauge the potential imapct and decide if it's something that needs immediate solution or something that can be handled later. If it needs urgent solutions, try to understand the rootcause of the roadblock or obstacle and dig deep. If it's a already seen problem before, try"See full answer

Dewansh Z. - "It's fair to assume a tech lead is an experienced person, especially in bigger organizations like Google. How we shape our thought process is part of our past experiences of default nature. I will first give it some time before I react/respond. I will try to understand the pattern where the tech lead is being devil's advocate. Eg. If he is being negative about PRD everytime, that means he had past experiences where the PRD was incomplete or scope was change; if is negative about testing scena"See full answer

Sumit P. - "CQs Restaurants - brick and mortar only, cloud kitchens are not included Movable/unorganized ones are also not included. Bangalore city only, suburbans are not included. Approaches Demand - N number of people eats out Y types of food Z times a week - how many restaurants are required to fulfill their need. Supply/Positioning - There are X type of zones where there are A,B,C number of restaurants (∑ Popular brands x avg # of outlets) x 100 / % mar"See full answer

Anonymous Salmon - "Product Bugs can be categorised by severity associated with them. Product Roadmap prioritization happens by MuSCoW technique, or WSJF for big ticket items. Suggestions from Leadership normally fall in expedited bucket. Overall, if there's a Scrum way of executing all priorities, then the PO and Team get together to decide the scope of the sprints for execution."See full answer

Pooja G. - "Goal: Maps should reflect reality of places especially with places like hospitals Ecosystem : Maps User Usecases: Daily Commute Explore places Critical situations like emergency - hospital visits, work emergencies, family Businesses using Google Business Profile: Medical & Health Hospitals Clinics Gyms Restaurants Salons Mom & Pop stores, SMB - Retail Enterprises These can be online, physical or both Local guides Downstream usecases for other google products: Google Search Google Gemini "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

Sneha S. - "Clarifying Questions Candidate : What is the objective we want to achieve? Interviewer : Enhance User Experience, User Engagement and add value Candidate : What platform are we looking at Mobile App or Desktop? Interviewer : Platform independent Candidate : Have we conducted any product discovery experiments at this point? Interviewer : Not yet Candidate : Can we assume the new features will cater to all professionals across different industries? Interviewer : Yes Candidate : A"See full answer

Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer

Reach G. - "What is Facebook Live? Facebook Live is the posting of a live video -> Virtual events, QA, conversation, presentation/performance. It can be on your Facebook page, event, or group. Mission Facebook's mission is to connect people and bring the world closer together. The mission of Facebook Live, from my perspective, is to enable individuals to engage ( message), discuss, and learn in real-time with their role models, influencers, and others to discover and establish stronger connect"See full answer

Ashima S. - "What do we mean by grow the VC feature? I am assuming the goal to be feature adoption. Goal: Increase VC feature adoption and usage within a timeframe (say, 6 months?) User Segments: I am thinking of the following user segments for this problem - Security conscious users (mostly an overlap with high spending limit card users) Frequent shoppers with multiple online subscriptions (we could quantify this like >5 subscriptions or so) Potential CapitalOne users who have shown interest in the"See full answer

Unicorn 2. - "I would like to ask a few clarifying questions Lyft for kids: Does this mean we want to design a ride sharing app for kids? (Assuming yes) Do we have any existing features catered to kids? (Assuming no) Lyft has a lot of features. I am going to assume basic table stake features which Lyft already has as: Ability to call for a ride Ride tracking Are there any goals that we would like to achieve with this feature? If we look at current market conditions, Lyft has biggest threat f"See full answer

Brajendra S. - "Clarifying Questions and Assumption: It is a Online store or a offline store ? Assuming it is an online store There would be multiple processes, for which process the CSAT score needs to be increased ? Assuming the CSAT score needs to be increased for product search & checkout process. Does this required for Mobile App or Website ? assuming mobile app Mission & goal: CSAT score of online search process for Costco needs to be increased. User personas: Working profession"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

Rani Y. - "Design a Fundraising product Clarifying questions : Are we creating this a standalone product or creating this within Meta apps ? Global product ? Lets say global product What is fundraising ? Raising money for cause Why is it imp ? Allows individuals to see bigger changes with small contributios why now? increased social causes, creator economy, or global crises. Want to make it accessible for everyday person rather than limiting to bigger organizations Ties into Metas mission to give"See full answer