Product Manager Interview Questions

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

Ankita S. - "let's say I'm working on a social media platform and considering implementing a new feature: "Reactions" to posts, similar to Facebook's reactions (like, love, haha, wow, sad, angry). Here's how I would conduct an A/B test for this feature: Define goals and Identify the feature: Goal is to increase user engagement and provide more nuanced ways for users to express their reactions to posts.The feature I want to test is the introduction of "Reactions" buttons alongside the traditional "Lik"See full answer

R K. - "Clarifying questions: Can we pick any business product across CapOne spectrum? any preference? - Assume pick any Are there any specific geographies you'd like to focus on? Are there any specific customer segments you'd like to focus on? Are you able to provide any information on the market/competitive analysis? Or I can just make reasonable assumptions along the way. Confirming we care about revenue? not profit per customer? Lay out the framework: I'd like to focus on the followi"See full answer

Ekta M. - "Some clarification questions On a very top layer these are the building blocks of the Quick Commerce companies. Let me know if you wanna deep dive in any specific. Users - browses the catalogue and selects the items that they wanna buy. Dark Store - This is where the catalogue is stored i.e. the items to be ordered. Imagine this to be a huge super store but only the delivery executives are allowed to shop in their. There are multiple of these dark stores, when you enter your address you get"See full answer

Charmi S. - "Clarification: Why South Korea and why Google has expanded their yet. I know there are some government security concerns which have bene in place but how is this integration going to expand Is this something like Google Maps itself or is it tailored to particular needs or region Google Mission & Why we want to expand? Google mission is to organize world's information and make it universally available. The Google Map in South Korea aligns with this as it will help people navigate through t"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: how does Uber know that this is happening and has there already been research as to why drivers are doing this? Approach: Understand the problem and how big of a problem is it? Is it a big enough problem to address given other competing priorities? Given the why's both for drivers and riders, ideate solutions to both drivers and riders Prioritize solutions Measure of success Summary Propose the approach above and solicit feedback from interviewer, incorporat"See full answer

Amit A. - "When I look to join a company, I think of long term association. Hence, I put a lot of focus on the team that I am going to work with, the culture, the value that I will add to the company & the opportunities for me to learn & grow. Microsoft is one of the pioneers in the tech industry touching the lives of many corporate and consumer clients and helping them to achieve more. To answer your question specifically, i would say -: Microsoft will provide me a platform to work with some of the sma"See full answer

Ben G. - "Achieving your metric of success (Daily Active Users, Engagement etc.) Improving user sentiment in their experience of using the product Attention given to accessibility, visual design and content hierarchy The product design aligns with goals and branding of company Product clearly communicates value to our users and helps them achieve their goals"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

Ekta M. - " Why do we want to increase the price? How much do we need to increase? Is it tied to some kind of revenue target? What is the region in which price needs to be increased? - Say India Who are the major players in that region who offer similar services and how are they priced? Will the users switch to those competitors? What is our unique proposition for retention? Do we have any leverage against them which will stop the users from churning? Any change in pricing or anything major like terms an"See full answer

SweetTaco - "Understand Wikipedia Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia that gives everyone access to unbiased and accurate knowledge and information. Current products: Website - people use Wikipedia to search and pull up articles written around a specific topic Integration with other products such as browsers and kindles - people highlight a word/subject and they can pull up the relevant wikipedia if it's available. Business model: It's a non-profit organization t"See full answer

Prabhav G. - "Assumptions and Clarification! What kind of blind person are we talking about ? Are they partially blind? Color Blind? Can Detect Light ? Can See blurry Images? Is the Blind person an adult, elderly or a teenager? Do they have any additional disabilities? Where will this Iron be used? At home? or perhaps one for travel? Do we have any limitation of resources? Assumptions- We are talking about a Complete Blind person who cannot see anything at all i.e Zero ability to se"See full answer

Valentin B. - "Let me first ask some clarification questions / make assumptions: Any specific geographic region? => USA How do we measure bandwith? a. Bandwith is the maximum internet speed required for our google maps servers to support all google maps traffic in the USA. At which point do we measure bandwith? => at the “entrance” of each google server center Do we talk about maximum bandwith required? a. Yes, the maximum BB required to support google maps in the USA (on side of Google) Outline: O"See full answer

Vijay S. - "Which one I critical, is the erratic change in the delivery cycle is one you need to investigate and further deep dive into to find the root cause"See full answer