Top Product Manager Interview Questions

John H. - "All products and services have to sell. I would create measurements on how much time, labor, and funds went into a project and how much value it brings back to customers and company."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

Ben G. - "Situation - A time I saw a peer struggling was while I was at Google working in Mountain View. A fellow colleague of mine was consistently not meeting standards in his performance reviews and wasn’t sure why. He was upset because Google was his dream company and he wasn’t sure how to improve based on his feedback. Task - I was tasked to design a based VUI framework for our discovery space on smart displays. This colleague was acting as the VUI lead for the project while I acted as t"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

Srinivas P. - "Assume you have a talking toy that can record voice. Machine learning is this magic that you could use to make this toy really useful for yourself. For a week - talk to this toy about your favorite color, favorite breakfast, what kind of weather you like, so on. The following week you could ask questions like today's weather is so and so - what breakfast should I have? , when should I plan a play date with my friends etc.."See full answer

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

Hayatu H. - "Best practices for prioritizing customer service requests Prioritizing support requests is a key part of creating a customer journey optimized for maximum revenue. If you want to start using a ticket prioritization process that will boost both customer satisfaction and your bottom line, we've got nine proven best practices below: Respond to your most loyal customers first Tag repeat customers as high-priority tickets Automate simple requests wherever possible Mark tickets with urg"See full answer

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

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

Varun S. - "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman. Clarifying questions: Why does Meta want to build this? A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why. When: No fixed duration for release. Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with. Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"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

George A. - "strengths- Working with engineering, working with metrics, execution Weakness- ideation and visioning, working with design"See full answer

Joohi M. - "Drew a framework - Where are we - do competitive analysis of the company Where do we want to go - Align business strategy with product strategy What can we do in the given roadmap - prioritize solutions"See full answer

Roy C. - "Note: This is my answer that I generated loosely while I was practicing this question. I didnt want to go down the product design framework as this is more of an execution question, so I came up with my own zombified framework to focus more on strategy + execution. Open to feedback on my answer - understand its not the most perfect! Question: How would I launch a digital library product as a Google PM Clarifications: Standalone product? : standalone Region specific: No (up to me) Goa"See full answer

Smriti G. - "Product -> Self service Portal North Star Metric-> No. of proposal downloaded Problem-> 15% Decrease in Proposal downloads RCA-> System Health check-> Bugs, errors in pages during session, site crashed, server inavailability, new feature was introduced which made it difficult for user to navigate. If there was problem of server in-availability, is load balancer working fine/server is not available? If problem was with feature-> What feature was introduced? do an A/B test with older feature Fu"See full answer

Tanu M. - "Clarifying Questions : Am I the PM at google ? Yes, For which country Airport are we designing this? Lets assume its a new product so we will design it for the US airports and later expand to other countries. GTM : When do we need to launch this product? Do we have any time constraints ? Lets assume one year I am assuming why google wants to enter in this space is because it is an untapped market and google can revolutionize the market with some of the most emerging tehnologies by e"See full answer

Rev - "Clarify: More about google online tutoring service? - content type, is it recorded/ live, certified/ at own pace/ paid, unpaid, etc.? Objective of this service? Organise world's info & make it accessible & useful, any other objective? What is the revenue model? Competition? Region/ geography? Constraints? Approach: Awareness about the product & job openings: Print & Digital media, ads via google products Accessibility to apply LinkedIn/ Google careers page, post"See full answer