Behavioral Interview Questions

Vikas T. - "This is coming from an Amazon manager who are taught to PIP people out. The first part he said is completely opposite with Amazon. They just pull people randomly into the room and put them either on dev list or PIP. This is unfortunately true for all of Amazon."See full answer

Zafeer R. - "I was owning a very ambitious company-wide project of standardizing and modernizing the UI and UX of the platform. It was in development for a few years and eventually turned out to be a failure for the product. I term this as my biggest failure as a product manager. So I worked for a company which had a suite of products. Each product had a different UX and UI. This resulted in nonuniformity across the suite and caused usability issues for our suite users. The idea was to have a standard exper"See full answer

Danny - "There are way more learning opportunities for us here if we acknowledge that this was not a good example and provide tips on how to improve the answer. All the answers here are superficial and it is clear that the interviewee was unprepared. . The mention of quote "a wise man told me..." (instead of getting to his own personal points) and some lack of confidence with the metrics portion are red flags. . For more concrete example, it is hard to believe that no one wants to fix the slow build proc"See full answer

Anjali V. - "I feel this is more about "Describe a time when I failed or struggled" rather than "Project Failure"."See full answer

Simran S. - "I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle: ✅ Initiation / Discovery Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps. Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"See full answer

Balaji G. - "This is the answer I have prepared. Please let me know your comments and how I can improve the answer. I have worked on many process improvement initiatives and projects. I want to share an initiative that I led and delivered while at my previous employer. It had a great impact on over 60 programs and projects across teams in six different countries. Analysts and program managers used to generate a monthly program performance report that deals with all aspects, including schedule, risks, costs"See full answer

Anonymous Raven - "How often do we get 15 min to answer a question? Wondering isn't the expectation to answer this in 3-5 min?"See full answer

Umang S. - "In my role as a Product Owner, I was developing a platform for a logistics company. As a PO and that too of a digital agency, my work was mostly before-end-to-after-end, it would start from pitching, strategy, product management, launch, funding deck prep. In mid of the product management cycle, the client starts adding pressure to deliver way before the deadline, as they had found the PE firm that conceptually was ready to start funding discussion, since this was not scoped before the start,"See full answer

Mohammad shahid S. - "We were working on a very high stake migration project where were suppose to migrate all the traffic (more than 40 million users per day) from legacy to modern micro-services based architecture. Before making this massive migration decision, company has already developed a lot of services outside monolith and we were suppose to utilise those services. Some these services there were PADs responsible to communicate the specific vendor APIs. For each vendor we had a dedicated PAD. Fast forward"See full answer

Saket S. - "I will divide my answer in 2 parts: Process I use for managing risks in any Project I will explain a real life situation where a Risk occurred and how I managed it Process for Risk Management can be broken down into 3 parts: Risk Identification: Risk identification is a team effort and is an ongoing process that happens throughout the Project. Technical Risks are usually identified during design/build/testing stage. I maintain a Risk register document to capture all the risks identified"See full answer

Vihari K. - "Situation: While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated. Action: Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"See full answer

Lati K. - "I generally struggle with stakeholders and partners who doesn't communicate enough. Now it could be either they don't invest sufficient time and energy in doing so or at times they lack the skill sets to do so. In both the cases, the entire responsibility fell on the other person to dig deep into why someone is doing the way they are doing, reading into patterns and behaviour of their personality and adapting to those communication styles"See full answer

Astro S. - "What are they looking for in the answer? "See full answer

Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"See full answer

Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

Pradeep V. - "No Interoperability between Digital Wallet Payments ? User Pain Points: Lack of Interoperability: Digital wallets operate in silos, forcing users to rely on inefficient workarounds, such as transferring funds to a bank account and then to another wallet, resulting in delays and extra effort. Time-Consuming Process: Current methods to move money between wallets are tedious, often taking 1-3 business days, which can be especially inconvenient for time-sensitive transactions. High Friction fo"See full answer

Sugrim S. - "after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"See full answer

Siddharth P. - "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be: Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition. Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding. Learn how great products are by being an engineer. Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"See full answer

Hamzeh H. - "S – Situation: In a university project, my team was building a collaborative code editor. As part of the functionality, we needed a login system so users could securely access their sessions and collaborate in real time. T – Task: I was responsible for implementing the authentication system. Initially, I planned to build the entire login system from scratch, including user management, password storage, and session handling. But as the deadline approached, I realized that implementing thi"See full answer

Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"See full answer