Top Product Manager Interview Questions

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  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +1

    "!! FEEDBACK WELCOME !! Clarify question By art we mean visual art, e.g. paintings? - Yes Is this a solution to create art on Instagram or to showcase existing art on Instagram? - Create art Why build this, Engagement or Acquisition? - Engagement Reframe: We want to increase Instagram engagement through creation and sharing of art with followers. Talking about the space The Internet has over time continuously reduced barriers to creative expression. From blogging to Twitter,"

    Apurv K. - "!! FEEDBACK WELCOME !! Clarify question By art we mean visual art, e.g. paintings? - Yes Is this a solution to create art on Instagram or to showcase existing art on Instagram? - Create art Why build this, Engagement or Acquisition? - Engagement Reframe: We want to increase Instagram engagement through creation and sharing of art with followers. Talking about the space The Internet has over time continuously reduced barriers to creative expression. From blogging to Twitter,"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • "Clarify the Issue: Begin by asking for more context about the specific issue they're referring to. This demonstrates your ability to gather information and make sure you have a clear understanding of the problem at hand. Assumption: biggest issue is decrease in north start metric: # of bookings Prioritize and Define Goals: Once you have a clear understanding of the issue, outline the goals you'd like to achieve in solving it. Increasing booking conversions, reducing friction in the bo"

    Danyal R. - "Clarify the Issue: Begin by asking for more context about the specific issue they're referring to. This demonstrates your ability to gather information and make sure you have a clear understanding of the problem at hand. Assumption: biggest issue is decrease in north start metric: # of bookings Prioritize and Define Goals: Once you have a clear understanding of the issue, outline the goals you'd like to achieve in solving it. Increasing booking conversions, reducing friction in the bo"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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  • "Netflix is a OTT platform that streams content , TV shows, movies documentaries, to the subscriber's of Netflix. Netflix has approximately 90 million subscribers in USA alone and Netflix's revenue is generated based on their subscriptions. The user buys Netflix subscription, logs in , opens profile and opens the home page of Netflix. 1. Confirmation of the Assumptions Homepage Definition: The homepage is the screen users see after logging into their profile, showing tailored recom"

    Hari priya K. - "Netflix is a OTT platform that streams content , TV shows, movies documentaries, to the subscriber's of Netflix. Netflix has approximately 90 million subscribers in USA alone and Netflix's revenue is generated based on their subscriptions. The user buys Netflix subscription, logs in , opens profile and opens the home page of Netflix. 1. Confirmation of the Assumptions Homepage Definition: The homepage is the screen users see after logging into their profile, showing tailored recom"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • "Post Booking Journey – Starts from making the payment for the ticket & ends at collecting the baggage at the belt Different Steps, which are involved and could go wrong: Payment gateway is not responding and the last Payment made but booking not confirmed Ticket gets cancelled but money is not refunded / money is debited but ticket is not refunded Flight gets rescheduled / Cancelled / Delayed Huge Qs at check in counter / Security Want to purchase a service onboard but currency not"

    Anonymous Gazelle - "Post Booking Journey – Starts from making the payment for the ticket & ends at collecting the baggage at the belt Different Steps, which are involved and could go wrong: Payment gateway is not responding and the last Payment made but booking not confirmed Ticket gets cancelled but money is not refunded / money is debited but ticket is not refunded Flight gets rescheduled / Cancelled / Delayed Huge Qs at check in counter / Security Want to purchase a service onboard but currency not"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • "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"

    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

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • +1

    "Clarifying Questions: What age range are we looking at between 13-19? Any specific range we need to target? - Assume all teens Any demography we would target? - Worldwide Do they have access to phones/laptops or do we need to build an offline product? - Assume they have access to phones and laptops Are there any constraints around privacy or content moderation? - Yes What platform (Facebook core, Messenger, or another product) is this for? - Assume faceb"

    Kartik D. - "Clarifying Questions: What age range are we looking at between 13-19? Any specific range we need to target? - Assume all teens Any demography we would target? - Worldwide Do they have access to phones/laptops or do we need to build an offline product? - Assume they have access to phones and laptops Are there any constraints around privacy or content moderation? - Yes What platform (Facebook core, Messenger, or another product) is this for? - Assume faceb"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "Clarification Questions I am assuming we need to deliver the packages to the doorstep. I am assuming we need to deliver all the packages which are ordered in a single day. For more product interview experience, please visit TechnoManagers https://technomanagers101.blogspot.com/ High level formula Number of Drones required = (US Population 330M)(Excluding 30% those below 10 years and above 65 years)(internet penetration 90%)([ (10% high networth people)(30 orders per year) ] + ["

    Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions I am assuming we need to deliver the packages to the doorstep. I am assuming we need to deliver all the packages which are ordered in a single day. For more product interview experience, please visit TechnoManagers https://technomanagers101.blogspot.com/ High level formula Number of Drones required = (US Population 330M)(Excluding 30% those below 10 years and above 65 years)(internet penetration 90%)([ (10% high networth people)(30 orders per year) ] + ["See full answer

    Product Manager
    Estimation
  • " Questions: Deadly diseases: new and current CEO of healthtech startup: adoption phase Mission: to improve and extend lives What we do: Research new diseases and connects people to doctors Structure: Objective -> Macro-Factors -> Company -> Users -> Suggestions Objective: Why? Mission to improve and extend lives How do we inform the world about these 20 deadly diseases we detected? Macro-Factors(climate/competition) World events like pandemics - this is a good investment* "

    Cameron P. - " Questions: Deadly diseases: new and current CEO of healthtech startup: adoption phase Mission: to improve and extend lives What we do: Research new diseases and connects people to doctors Structure: Objective -> Macro-Factors -> Company -> Users -> Suggestions Objective: Why? Mission to improve and extend lives How do we inform the world about these 20 deadly diseases we detected? Macro-Factors(climate/competition) World events like pandemics - this is a good investment* "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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  • Stripe logoAsked at Stripe 

    "The key to this is to be concise and specific. You won't need to code as a product manager, but understanding technology is important. Only give enough information to validate your knowledge. By speaking too much, you may make a mistake (if you're not technical). > Sure! I'll list the first five I can think of off the top of my head. There's a login endpoint that logs a user in, a signup endpoint to sign up a user, there's likely an endpoint to grab a list of songs to display in a playlist, a su"

    Exponent - "The key to this is to be concise and specific. You won't need to code as a product manager, but understanding technology is important. Only give enough information to validate your knowledge. By speaking too much, you may make a mistake (if you're not technical). > Sure! I'll list the first five I can think of off the top of my head. There's a login endpoint that logs a user in, a signup endpoint to sign up a user, there's likely an endpoint to grab a list of songs to display in a playlist, a su"See full answer

    Product Manager
  • "If I would be the PM for the workplace, First I might have some clarifying questions like workplace have many features Are we looking at some specific feature of workspace application , assuming right now that we are looking the workspace application as a whole and want to know the success metric for the entire application? Is it safe to assume that since Workplace is a meta product so it's mission becomes to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. No"

    Pankhuri T. - "If I would be the PM for the workplace, First I might have some clarifying questions like workplace have many features Are we looking at some specific feature of workspace application , assuming right now that we are looking the workspace application as a whole and want to know the success metric for the entire application? Is it safe to assume that since Workplace is a meta product so it's mission becomes to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. No"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "It was a Finetech product to help people remove credit card limited balance issue. The product is design especially for business man who usually use they credit card to make purchase or big transaction. Problem Credit card have a limit amont of money they can support. it is very difficult to handle situation where people want to make a transaction that goes beyond their supported credit card balance. Having many credit card is not easy to manage and go to trip with a huge amont of money i"

    Adegnika O. - "It was a Finetech product to help people remove credit card limited balance issue. The product is design especially for business man who usually use they credit card to make purchase or big transaction. Problem Credit card have a limit amont of money they can support. it is very difficult to handle situation where people want to make a transaction that goes beyond their supported credit card balance. Having many credit card is not easy to manage and go to trip with a huge amont of money i"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Execution
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  • +4

    "As per my understanding, Success of the AI product/feature has to be measured in 2 aspects: success of the problem it solves success of the model used Success of the problem- start with the overall business goal of the problem(acquisition, retention etc) & the high level metric(essentially north star) then comes the product/feature level goals & metrics(conversion, engagement, clicks etc) Success of the model used- general: precision, recall, latency ethical: bias, safety busine"

    Debajyoti B. - "As per my understanding, Success of the AI product/feature has to be measured in 2 aspects: success of the problem it solves success of the model used Success of the problem- start with the overall business goal of the problem(acquisition, retention etc) & the high level metric(essentially north star) then comes the product/feature level goals & metrics(conversion, engagement, clicks etc) Success of the model used- general: precision, recall, latency ethical: bias, safety busine"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • "What is our goal during onboarding? e.x. Site-visits, add-to-cart, completed checkout etc? After asking clarifying questions we learn that our north-star goal is to get more customers to complete a checkout, therefore our goal is to increase our conversion rate. Are we looking to sell more of a particular product or increase conversion rate holistically? Segmentation: Do we have a particular market or demographic in mind? Commercial/business vs. individuals One time buyers vs. repeat purch"

    Jack F. - "What is our goal during onboarding? e.x. Site-visits, add-to-cart, completed checkout etc? After asking clarifying questions we learn that our north-star goal is to get more customers to complete a checkout, therefore our goal is to increase our conversion rate. Are we looking to sell more of a particular product or increase conversion rate holistically? Segmentation: Do we have a particular market or demographic in mind? Commercial/business vs. individuals One time buyers vs. repeat purch"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • "Mission for TikTok shop is to increase brand growth and sales. TikTok gives platform to these brands/advertiser to market their products via influencers/creators to be able to sell their products faster and users on tiktok platform(mainly Gen-z) are motivated to make inspirational based discovery of products and purchase them So main objective for TikTok shop could be Increase sales for diverse brands So, some of the metrics to consider would be: no of orders placed per week"

    Nikita B. - "Mission for TikTok shop is to increase brand growth and sales. TikTok gives platform to these brands/advertiser to market their products via influencers/creators to be able to sell their products faster and users on tiktok platform(mainly Gen-z) are motivated to make inspirational based discovery of products and purchase them So main objective for TikTok shop could be Increase sales for diverse brands So, some of the metrics to consider would be: no of orders placed per week"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • "I do not think Facebook should remove the mandatory picture. As long as users get to choose who can see their pictures its a win win. eg: if i am sending out a request to anyone ( the picture is visible) - but when i am getting a request i can choose to be visible vs. invisible.. The pictures definitely should now be watermarked in a manner that AI cannot replicate it. giving a sense of security to users. Many might want to use this version for friends who are not on their friend list. For m"

    Shruti S. - "I do not think Facebook should remove the mandatory picture. As long as users get to choose who can see their pictures its a win win. eg: if i am sending out a request to anyone ( the picture is visible) - but when i am getting a request i can choose to be visible vs. invisible.. The pictures definitely should now be watermarked in a manner that AI cannot replicate it. giving a sense of security to users. Many might want to use this version for friends who are not on their friend list. For m"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "As a YouTube PM, there are several factors that I would consider when evaluating the idea of developing a tool for content creators to generate ideas with scripts automatically added. First, I would assess the potential demand for such a tool among YouTube content creators. This would involve researching the needs and challenges of content creators, as well as gathering feedback from content creators on the value and usefulness of the tool. This would help me understand whether there is a strong"

    Anonymous Flamingo - "As a YouTube PM, there are several factors that I would consider when evaluating the idea of developing a tool for content creators to generate ideas with scripts automatically added. First, I would assess the potential demand for such a tool among YouTube content creators. This would involve researching the needs and challenges of content creators, as well as gathering feedback from content creators on the value and usefulness of the tool. This would help me understand whether there is a strong"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +3

    "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"

    Chelsea F. - "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Estimation
  • +2

    "Imagine you're playing with a big box of colorful building blocks. You know how sometimes you want to build a tall tower, and other times you want to make a cool car or a cozy house? Well, a product manager is like the person who helps decide what kind of things we should build with those blocks. They talk to all your friends and ask, "Hey, what would be the most fun to make with these blocks?" Then they tell the builders what to do, like which blocks to use and how to put them together. And g"

    Jonah S. - "Imagine you're playing with a big box of colorful building blocks. You know how sometimes you want to build a tall tower, and other times you want to make a cool car or a cozy house? Well, a product manager is like the person who helps decide what kind of things we should build with those blocks. They talk to all your friends and ask, "Hey, what would be the most fun to make with these blocks?" Then they tell the builders what to do, like which blocks to use and how to put them together. And g"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Product Manager
    Behavioral
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