Product Manager Interview Questions

Jatan P. - "Step 1 - clarifying question: Are we just focusing on the customer who rented a car or both who has given a car? (Assumed only a customer who rented a car) Are we just focusing on the mobile or web apps? (Assumed only the mobile app) Step 2 -Define users: customer who rented a car. Step 3 - pain points: unclear communication between both parties. lack of support if needed. hassle-full car drop experience. No survey or complaint channel about how the experienc"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

Aeshvarya J. - "Food delivery apps : Food delivery apps are clear example of demand and supply functions, Both end need to monitored closely. Ecosystem : Order placer, Restaurant and Food delivery Platform Value : Order placer find value when they can order food at home from their fav restaurants. Restaurant find value when they make sell via order coming in and probably good reviews which marks future growth. Food delivery platform when orders are being placed. North star metrics : # of order delivered Bre"See full answer

Sandhya N. - "Clarifying Questions: Discover events, purchase/resell via app Post booking: After ticket purchase to event completion Motivation for Ticketmaster: Strengths: 70-80% of ticketing business, tie ups with venues Competition: meetup Low frequency product - so every experience matters Positive wom: Reduced marketing Retention of users, organizers Users: Ecosystem Attendees: Discover, buy and attend events - {chose this} Event Organizers: marketing/demand, s"See full answer

Adaneir W. - "Time taken: 25 minutes My approach: I would start by listing the use cases, what could be the length of cable needed, quantifying each and weight average those. The % make the assumption that it is what it represents the share in the total nb of iphone recharges. In fact total should be more than 100% because it not exclusive but for sake of simplicity let’s say it tops at 100%. \# In details: charging next to bed: 50%generally speaking there is a bedside table that is 80 cm high and the"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

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

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

Ekta M. - "Define the feature A virtual card number is a temporary or disposable card number generated by your credit card issuer or financial institution. It is designed to protect your actual credit card information during online transactions. Its main purpose is the security of your actual credit card. Clarification questions No questions What is the purpose of the feature? Enhanced Security: Using a virtual card number protects your actual credit card details from being exposed to potentia"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Key value proposition of the product: targeted search engine for kids to search the internet Target users: kids below 18 years of age Target geography: USA Form factor: web app Target market Kids (largely school students) are now increasingly using the internet for educational purposes to perform assignments, collaborate on projects etc. A search engine is a core need to access the internet for this audience and is needed quite frequently - almost every time a"See full answer

Maedu E. - "Imagine a blockchain as a magical, unchangeable diary that keeps track of all the candies you share with your friends. Whenever you share a candy, you write it down in this special diary, and your friends also write it down in their diaries. But here's the cool part – all the diaries are connected and can talk to each other! So, when you want to know who has borrowed your candy or if you borrowed candy from someone else, you just check this special diary. It shows you the history of all the can"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

Avi G. - "Clarifying Questions: Will this feature be rolled out to the Facebook App or will it be a stand-alone app like Messenger? -- Assume it will be another feature like Marketplace embedded in the Facebook App What is the goal of this feature? How will it be used? Similar to Marketplace where you might see job listings and employer's company pages linked for reviews Will this be rolled out to a specific geographic region or a specific industry? - Lets assume all industries in US **Assump"See full answer

S Y. - "Clarifying question? What is GCP and what does it mean to create a new GCP region in Portugal? GCP is Google Cloud Portugal. Creating a new region means creating data centres (clouds) which can be used as hosts. Is there a business objective to consider Portugal for a new region? None in particular Structure: Explore internal factors Is there a particular business goal that we are trying to accomplish like goal of getting more business from EU companies in coming few years? If yes"See full answer

Sanjana G. - " are we considering ride sharing app or also Uber Eats? If we are considering Ride sharing app Uber is successful when a Customer is safely dropped at its selected destination and Uber driver is paid for the drive. For Uber to be successful in a new city we want to track Number of completed rides per day/week Number of customers who came back to the app for another ride after first one was completed. Number of active drivers per day. Number of drivers completing at least 1 ride"See full answer

Dheeraj sai P. - "As a product manager in microsoft to support the customers I have to design a product. Let us take the E-Service as a name.In that we can see a form at first and after that a chat bot at the picture even there is a calling facility.Other queries done with the bot."See full answer

Samuel S. - "Clarification questions: What is the time frame we want to build this? MVP 6 months What markets and geos are we targeting? e.g. developed markets and scope it to just US and canada Are we targeting any particular meta platform ? facebook, IG, whatsapp or i can pick ? Across mobile and web platforms. Yes Alignment with Meta's mission and vision and discusison on Product dynamics itself Meta's mission to empower people to build communities and bring the wo"See full answer

Adarsh S. - "Hey, Thanks for the question - it’s a fantastic challenge with real-world impact. Cool so this is the rough backbone structure that we can follow and ofcourse we can add meat later on to it and pivot if required. So here it goes: First would like to lay out the broader mission as to why we are doing this and then some clarification questions and then probably try to segment users via single or different approaches, then will pick which permutation makes sense as the target segment, then ge"See full answer