Product Manager Interview Questions

N N. - "As a software engineer, there are a number of ways I could potentially contribute to improving Walmart.com. Here are a few ideas: Performance Optimization: Walmart.com is a complex web application with many moving parts. One potential area for improvement could be to optimize the performance of the site to make it load faster and feel more responsive. This could involve things like optimizing images, improving server response times, or reducing the number of HTTP requests required to load the"See full answer

Aswath B. - "basic drew the diagram"See full answer

Apurv W. - "Clarify: Understanding of wallets an UPI What is failure rate here? - transaction failed Is it real time failure or successful on front end but failed in backend - assuming it is front end, real time failure. Have other related products/features experienced the same change? Diagnose (impact, significance) Failure rate = assuming it is significantly increasing Impact = customer lifetime value, # of bookings, Avg order value and satisfaction too. Users & value Seller = Revenue "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

Hari S. - "Clarifying questions: Is this a standalone product or a Meta integrated product? Which region is this for? US or another region or global? Is this for a county run library or a more informal group community library? Assumptions: It's a meta integrated product US based system group run community library Let's see if a lending library fits into Meta's company mission to build community and bring people closer together. Yes, a lending library does build community by helping peop"See full answer

Dev S. - "My Favorite Product is Grammarly unlike Microsoft spell checker, it helps correct the mistakes as I compose my sentences. It follows rules, patterns, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to improve users’ writing skills and improve their confidence in writing skills. I would evaluate this product by the following design principles. Usefulness Understandability Innovative It’s honest I can expand this criterion and explain how I evaluate prod"See full answer

rocketscientist - "I was the PM of a beta product which started to be utilized by a range of users. Although I maintained and communicated a road map that outlined upcoming features at a high level, it wasn't very clear to the users whether certain features were going to be improved, certain low level features were going to be added, or whether these were on our radar at all. We don't have a large team to support call desk or a marketing team. I was having multiple, one of conversations with different users and c"See full answer

Vishnu G. - "This is a classic strategic dilemma, but the answer for Walmart, given its core business model and strengths, is quite clear: Invest in boosting dish soap production. Here's why: Proven Success: Dish soap is Walmart's top product with strong, established sales. Scaling leverages existing, efficient supply chains and customer demand. Core Competency: Walmart excels at high-volume, low-margin household goods. This aligns perfectly with their business model and customer base. **L"See full answer

Lavanya S. - "To enhance customer adoption of JPMorgan Chase's Payments Developer Portal, I propose a feature called "Guided Onboarding and Custom Integration Paths." Feature Overview Guided Onboarding: A step-by-step onboarding process for new users that includes interactive tutorials, video walkthroughs, and a personalized dashboard based on their needs and use cases. Users can select their business type and goals (e.g., e-commerce, retail, fintech) to receive tailored content and API recomm"See full answer

Anna H. - "Great. I'm going to get started by asking clarification questions for (1) understanding of the gap by assessing current product features for bookings via platform?, (2) brainstorming possible solutions, (3) how to implement solutions, and (4) suggesting metrics to validate solutions towards an increase of bookings Clarification questions & Assumptions: What is customer segment (family/ group/ individual)? In which market? (individual & US market) Should I specifically focus on one of use ca"See full answer

John F. - "During the course of my career, I have had the opportunity to fill a variety of roles. I’ve been a business analyst, a consultant, a project manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a product manager. Each of these has had aspects that I have enjoyed. There are a few that standout though over everything else. First is that I have a passion for working with people. In each of these roles, my favorite part was always working with a diverse range of individuals from various levels of the orga"See full answer

Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions / assumptions we are talking about a typical retail bank and not investments banks or other NBFCs The banking app covers the primary functions of a bank like money transfers, account management, savings etc. A typical bank has the following business functions: Giving loans (primary function to make money) Savings and other accounts Investments (like Fixed deposits of the bank and other government schemes) Pain points A bank had to deploy manpower to perform all"See full answer

Tracy C. - "Before I walk you through my thought process, I want to align you with the definition of discovery. I assume discovery is the journey before a guest adds a property or experience to the cart, which can be broken down into the discovery of listings pre-search bar on the homepage and discovery post-search bar on the search results page. Are we talking about both touch points as discovery, or would you like me to focus specifically on one? Is this for a specific platform, mobile or desktop web? Bec"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions What do we mean by bookings? Is it nights booked or transactions?: Nights booked Are there any constraints like platform or anything else while calculating the nights booked? : No If a user books a night but does not show up, do we still count him? : Yes If a user cancels before turning up, do we not count him? : Yes Expedia operates globally. Its major markets are Europe, USA, Asia, Africa etc. We will take the following high level approach **Total population →"See full answer

Sid S. - "· Scoping the problem: · What kind of aeroplane - wide / narrow body, single/double deck. Assume normal domestic US plane with about 150 seating capacity Will the plane be empty(no passengers or luggage) - assume yes Will we only fill the cockpit, passenger area and cargo hold or do we need to consider wings, engines, etc - assume no We will consider the theoretical limit and ignore any inefficiencies in arranging the balls Breaking the problem down: Considering the interior o"See full answer

Pratik H. - "How would you define success for Doordash Clarify- Are we looking at the US Market? Yes Are we we looking at it from today? Yes Are looking at mobile or web? Both Has anything changed in doordash;s strategy or marketplace I should be aware of? Nothing major Lets talk a little about the misssion of doordash. It probably goes something along the lines make food delivery as easy as possible. Their core product is three sided. You have drivers on one end, customers that order food on the other and"See full answer

Manish G. - "When the COVID influx started to flow through hospitals, there were a lot of questions and no time to find solutions. So we set up a command center to manage the flow of issues, triaged them appropriately, and mobilized teams to find quick resolutions. We had to escalate quickly and effectively to find quick resolutions. The team had to rotate the leadership of the command center to avoid burnout due to working round the clock and in unconventional ways to manage the workload. For example, we ha"See full answer

Aditya S. - "I told a story about how our team was focussed on moving a key metric i.e. NPS and to do that we build 3 top requested user feature. Post release the detractors % didn't move even though the detractors request for features shipped went down. Then I connect with users and did some analysis post which we realised that we need to pivot our focus from shipping features to enabling complete workflows for our users i.e. shipping all those feature which are used together in a feature as then only users"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