Product Manager Interview Questions

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

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

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

Karthik M. - "I would always pick a specific product and make a case. Answering this question without a specific product in mind makes the answer unstructured in my opinion. For instance, I would pick Gmail as an example to answer this and structure my response. Clarifications & Assumptions Let us pick a specific product and structure our response - for instance - let us pick Gmail as the product that you want to analyse and make a Go / No Recommendation to Sunset the Product. Overall Google Revenu"See full answer

Coach - "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "To make sure we are on the same page, this is a feature in the current FB app that would make it easier for people to volunteer? Or more broadly, the feature would aim to expand the base of volunteers. To start I want to dive deeper on the objective of the feature. Then we can look at possible users, pick a segment and outline their needs, then look at some solutions. We can then prioritize and see how we might roll something like this out. If I look at FB mission of building community and brin"See full answer

Sourabh M. - "\>> Amazon Mission & Strategy \>> Where does Amazon Prime fit into Amazon’s mission? \>> Analyze Amazon’s positioning thru \Porter’s 5 forces \ \>> Available Options \\Amazon Mission & Strategy\\ \>> Vision // To be everything store \>> Jeff Bezos // Your margin is my opportunity \\Amazon Prime\\ \>> Loyalty program to help increase customer loyalty // CLTV \>> Fuels Bezos philosophy of \“your margin is my opportunity”\ \>> Amazon Services\: E-Commerce, OTT, Mus"See full answer

Bhuppi S. - "To measure the success of the WhatsApp engagement and retention is crucial along with monitiozation. So, i will make sure following metrics:** Daily Active Users (DAU) and Monthly Active Users (MAU): DAU and MAU are critical metrics for understanding the scale and engagement level of the user base. A healthy ratio between DAU and MAU (known as stickiness) indicates strong user retention and habitual use. Message Sent/Received Volume: The volume of messages sent and received is a d"See full answer

Vijay S. - "Clarification questions - Assumption: Blind person - Generally aware about what an ATM machine is and how it works. Markets - US market and think about global expansion later Regulatory, Financial companies approval - We have agreement from the regulators and financial companies about the merits and we don’t see any kind of concerns from these companies Goal - Part of the company's social initiatives - Positive word of mouth - increase customer base Users - **Blind users with no other disabi"See full answer

Rakesh K. - "I would like to understand the reason why the conclusion was made to even have google maps for kids, assumption here is kids are aged 1 to 5. Some clarifying questions Are the kids in this scenario traveling all alone or accompanied by their parents Kids are using google maps to let their parents know the directions (at times parents want to educate kids) Kids are helping others with directions to their destination. The consideration here is that kids would use maps for following s"See full answer

Rahul B. - "Clarifying Questions: Does parking mean a parking area where vehicles have a space to park? - Yes Are we looking at a particular geography? - UK market Roadmap of the answer: I am going to look at different users, their use cases on when they would want to park their vehicle, their pain points, the possible solution for this product, the MVP of the product along with the features and the metrics to be tracked Different User Personas: Private car owners: Park car when they go out for socializing"See full answer

Vishal B. - "Design an elevator for the blind Clarification Questions A person who is not able to see at all or a person who can partially see? - completely blind Are we we focusing on the people who are visually impaired but, no other physically challenge? - Yes Goal Company already have the elevator products and now company is trying to enter into new market space. Users Blind users with some assistance - we are not focused on these people as they already have some a"See full answer

Disha - "TikTok → short-form video platform where users share, post, comment, and like each other’s videos Clarifying Questions Define Active → Users who are opening the app at least once a day for a particular duration say 1 min Geography? Consider India for this case Is the source/BI Tool where we saw the drop valid enough? TikTok is both on the app as well as browser - Where are we seeing the drop? Is there a particular platform wherein we are seeing the drop? Android or iOS New"See full answer

KittyKat - "I’d discuss definition of keywords: UPI ( service ) and what does revenue mean in UPI Assume goals - Increase 50% by the next one year Geo - India User Users to Users ( P2P ) Users to Merchant ( P2M ) Merchants to Merchant (small-scale UPI ) Picked User Segment - Users to Merchant ( P2M ) Pain points Subscriptions Tap on pay Frauds / Trust issues Upper cap 1L No Cost EMI / EMI on UPIs Credit on UPIs Spending Insights Integrations with devices - smartwatches, smart TVs, sm"See full answer

Ramesh Y. - "Clarification - is it Uber that is building the feature? Answer: Yes Assuming if Uber is the one building this feature, I would start with if and how does the feature help Uber's mission and north star metrics. Uber's mission is to provide reliable transportation around the world and the primary metric that i can think on a high level is Number of rides , Number of drivers and from business revenue perspective revenue per ride, revenue per rider and driver. I picked revenue per ride because it"See full answer

Kunal M. - "I would apply the CIRCLES framework to this problem. Context: The mortgage industry is based on front to broken back-office operational processes, fragmented data, rates war, non-clarity on appraisal. The coming age of digital savvy Millenials who wants a one-stop shop for all their banking needs in a techno-savy way will pave the way for mortgage disruption. Goal: Metrics to optimize - increase market share in Loan origination, increase revue and increase customer stickiness on the plat"See full answer