Product Manager Interview Questions

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

Dheeraj sai P. - "As a product manager in microsoft to support the customers I have to design a product. Let us take the E-Service as a name.In that we can see a form at first and after that a chat bot at the picture even there is a calling facility.Other queries done with the bot."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

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

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

Judy W. - "Situation: COVID has impacted everyone's lives, especially small businesses. Earlier this year, during the second lockdown in Malaysia, it was estimated that 50%-70% of small businesses have closed. It got me thinking, beyond the existing training programmes, what can my company do to support small businesses? Task: So, I took the initiative to gather our Comms and Government Affairs team, to work together and explore how we can: 1) meaningfully demonstrate our company's commitment in"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

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

Arthur Y. - "Clarifying Questions: What are Discovery features on IG? My assumed answer: posts of followers you don’t already follow that you see on the Discovery tab of IG. The posts consist of video clips, IGTV posts, and pics. User can browse through endless scroll of posts, and can filter by category (e.g. sports, comedy, etc.) on the Discovery tab. Exclude IGTV and IG Shopping, which can also be accessed by Discovery tab, and just focus on Discovery of users you don’t already follow as"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

Anonymous Flamingo - "As a product manager, my first step in designing a free product would be to define the product's target audience and the problem it aims to solve. Once these factors are established, I can then determine the best way to monetize the product. One way to monetize a free product is through advertising. This involves displaying ads to users as they use the product, and earning revenue based on the number of clicks or impressions the ads receive. This model is commonly used by social media platforms,"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Measure Success of FB rooms. First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product: FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite. Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product. Goals: Business goals: Rooms was FB’s"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

Asset T. - "Ask clarifying questions: There are a few different products within Coinbase platform - Coinbase, Coinbase Pro, Coinbase Wallet. Which one would you like me to focus on? Let’s assume it is Coinbase main app Coinbase has both desktop and mobile apps - is it ok if I focus on one of them first, and if time permits, extend it to another? Let’s assume we focus on the mobile version Coinbase is available in 100+ countries, can I focus on the US version? Let’s assume yes. Is"See full answer