Product Strategy Interview Questions

Sushil K. - "1. Assessment of Current Applications Architecture Review: Examine the underlying architecture of both applications. The 10-year-old application might be based on outdated technology, which could pose challenges in terms of scalability, performance, and maintainability. The 3-year-old application, on the other hand, might use more modern technologies, making it more adaptable to future needs. Codebase Quality: Assess the quality, structure, and documentation of the codebase."See full answer

Akshay R. - "Let's start by describing a time machine, which is a device that allows somebody to move backwards or forwards in time. The movement could be physical movement, wherein the user gets physically transported to a different timeline, or it could be getting a glimpse into a different timeline, like wearing a VR headset and getting to experience a different timeline without physically being there. For the purpose of this exercise, I will assume, this time machine allows a person to physically trans"See full answer

Akshat A. - "LinkedIn is a Corporate/Professional Networking platform. We will analyze the following factors before the launch: How many people of the demography are on LinkedIn I will make sure Learning platform content is approved, verified and required for interviewing for a specific role in a corporate Create a Learning Community where people who opt for the LinkedIn learning platform share their experience of the completed course and how it helped them get an interview opportunity with the comp"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Strategy question, which means finding good reasons for strategic decisions. A few reasons for the GitHub acquisition are listed here. Competition > With the GitHub acquisition comes a lot of data on which companies are getting huge, or which technologies are cutting edge. Microsoft can adopt these technologies faster than others by having a pulse on this. It's also a defensive acquisition, since GitHub belonging to Microsoft means it can't be bought by Facebook or Google"See full answer

Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers! Expected Outcome: Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want? Features: What features will you build? Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version? After you have decided on the MVP: Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more quicker? Design: How does your new fea"See full answer

Exponent - "You should be able to identify this as a clear Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. One thing to note is the interviewer said "briefly". Be concise and to the point. Here are some good arguments for the Youtube acquisition: > There are a few reasons why Google would want to acquire YouTube. I'll go over a few of the main reasons why I think they went ahead with such a large acquisition. At the time of the YouTube acquisition, Google and You"See full answer

Ayan H. - "Let's define the term "everybody" to start with. I can think of a few things: business users want it for certain feature Blackberry had consumers (non-business) users want to use or keep using Blackberry for certain features Interviewer: Business users wanted it. Okay. My assumption would be that business users wanted it for the security features that Blackberry so famously promoted. Here, business users could be the organization buying the phone (such as HP or Google) or the actual e"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Start at 4.01 pm Clarifying question: A non-profit food bank is responsible for providing food to people who cannot afford it. The food bank is engaged with world-level food problems, or is there a particular geography that gets all the focus? Are we interested in particular demographics like only kids or only adults? What is the goal of this food bank? Objective: Coming up with a framework to prioritise different channels where this money can be spent to achieve the large goal that"See full answer

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Joohi M. - "Drew the following framework - Maturity of the tech (if it is too mature then consider buying), Competitors (how many, when are they launching this new tech etc.), Market Share of competitors, Financial considerations (build vs buy NVP), Collaborators for this tech, Economic Climate (Anti-trust, crisis etc.)"See full answer