Product Manager Interview Questions

Aditi N. - "Clarifying question: Why would google want to sunset Youtube? What would the business objective be? Based on how the interviewer responds this could go down multiple paths: If they said just because, then I would address the current state data for the YouTube business. Material benefits: XX Million active users $$ in Annual revenue $$ in subscription revenue $$ monetization through influencers Non-material benefits that align to google core values: Democracy on the web works"See full answer

Rutuja A. - "Lyft is a ride hailing platform where the users can request the rides on the app and the drivers can fulfill the rides based on their availability and willingness Goal: So here we want to design a ride hailing platform for college students for there commute From home to college College -> Home Inside campus Why do we want to concentrate specially on students? Data analysis of existing ride pickup and drop location and time analysis Hypothesis: A good share of rides are originating from"See full answer

Rui B. - "Clarification and Assumption In house labeling vs outsourced? labeling text, images, bounding boxes, segmentations etc? what kind of issues have we observed? Assuming that data collection and pre/post-processing is done by different team and labeling starts with receiving data and ends with sending files back to my team. "outsourced, images containing objects, 2 dozen classes of objects to label bounding boxes." 2.Goal Quality is important because downstream effect. garbage in garbage out."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

Neha A. - "Start with FB vision What are local awareness ad. Ad content that is shown to people when they are in proximity to a brick and mortal stores. Why did fb start local awareness ads. They are very effective in helping businesses acquire customers, or create top of mind recall. Drive business revenue and visibility. Helps FB monetize and enables users discover local businesses. Goal – [secondary] is to ensure that we build visibility for the businesses. [Primary ] Customer engagement. engage the c"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Okay so the objective is to describe a product which I think is poorly designed despite of what market sentiments are around this and how the product is performing currently. Okay understood, so the way I would like to go about it is first I will state what are the factors which I look in a product to tell it is a good product. Then will see how a particular product doesn’t follow this and that's why I called it a poorly designed product. For me a product is great if it is having these qualities"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

Justine C. - "Answered out loud and summarized the transcription with AI \\*\ If I noticed a 10% drop in conversion rate, I wouldn’t treat it as just restoring a metric I’d frame it as protecting the customer experience and do my level best to maintain stakeholder trust. I’d approach it in five steps: First, confirm the signal. Is this a real issue or broken tracking? I’d segment the data and check if it’s isolated or systemic. _Happy to go deeper on how I’d break down those segments if that’s u"See full answer

Snighdha G. - "By showing results that I have achieved by taking that action because seeing is believing. For example, when we had issues with our child's behavior and wanted to understand what as parents we are doing wrong, we went and sought help from a specialist and similarly advised same to others having some form of mental health issues to seek help since we benefitted with it a lot."See full answer

John F. - "Building data centers in outer space is a concept that has been talked about for a few years now. However, to my knowledge, no one has yet succeeded in building one. In order to simplify this case, I am going to only investigate putting Azure Disk Storage into the cloud. To determine if this is a viable scenario for Azure, I will examine why Azure may want to pursue building a data center in outer space, the technological feasibility, and finally, a potential market for this service. Business D"See full answer

Rev - "Clarify: Product: physical/ digital? - digital chefs as a profession? what kind of restaurant setting do they work in? speed up cooking why/ objective? - serve customers quickly? reduce their fatigue? help them spend time on other important activities? what is cooking process - getting order - knowing recipe - executing - placing in dish - should I consider serving or that will be including in the waitor's job? By how much do we want to speed up? who are we? any constraints?"See full answer

Nidhi S. - "There are couple of reasons for it - Kind of role : Its a product manager role loaded with analytical work, So working with data in stringent regulatory guideline make it more exciting and thrilling. Location & industry is like - Cherry on the cake, Bangalore weather and BFI is at its all time peak as people spending behavior is changing continuously, it will be interesting to see big giants like visa are managing it."See full answer

Scott S. - " A couple of years ago, we were working on a project to integrate a new third-party data feed into our existing data processing pipeline. This data feed was critical for enhancing our trading algorithms with more comprehensive market data. Given the tight timeline and high stakes, I decided to push for a rapid implementation. In my eagerness to meet the deadline, I underestimated the complexity of integrating this new data feed. I did not allocate sufficient time for thorough testing and valida"See full answer

Christina Z. - "That is a great product opportunity. I see the vision to drive engagement by building a reward based experience to encourage kids to login to the app and track their books and trigger a visual pleasing experience when the child completes a book. The more complex the book, the bigger the reward."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

Rahul J. - "Clarifying questions Target customers: users who want to book flights, hotel etc. Geo: USA Form factor: web and mobile app About the company Agoda wants its users to 'see the world for less' i.e. they are targeting users who want to travel (for business or pleasure) and their key value proposition is price i.e. lowest cost hotels, flights and other services. Business model: Agoda is an online market place where vendors like airlines, hotels etc. are displayed and user can search for a"See full answer

Rahul R. - "I would first call out the two types of Google Doodles that are published. First would be the static doodle which just shows a picture, and users can get more information on it by hovering on it or clicking on it. Second would be the dynamic google doodles which are either short videos or games through which users engage a bit more. My top 3 metrics that covers both would be: Click-through rate and post-click CTR - Although different metrics, I clubbed them since they fall under similar"See full answer

Anonymous Crab - "Clarify: IG shops is the marketplace on IG, where users can view items listed for sale by creators/businesses and also search for specific items or categories. Users can actually buy through shops instead of getting navigated to the original business website. Correct? Clarify: Can only sellers/businesses which own their inventory have a "shop"? Or can a social media influencer (different IG account) sell on behalf of a business? Structure: In order to figure out what success looks like, I'd fi"See full answer