Product Manager Interview Questions

Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

Kevin S. - "The question given is intentionally very open ended. As the key phrases used are "air travel" which can encompass all parts of the journey not just the airport or flight experience & "improve the perception" which doesn't necessarily require fixing the problem (although you'd hope that was part of the conclusion). In addition, the constraints of time (1-year) and resources ($10M) means you must be very prescriptive. As such I think it'd be important to ask the following clarifying questions"See full answer

Anil K. - "Acquisition New sign-ups for Google Drive Service Google Drive app installs Activation Number of users with at least one file since sign-up Paid Google Drive Users Engagement DAU, MAU Sessions, Frequency Time spend Files accessed per session Task completion - sharing file, setting up automatic back up etc. Retention % Repeat Users % Users Churning out Google App Uninstalls Referral Inviting"See full answer

Vijendar K. - "I'd like to clarify the question here for better understanding. Are we targeting any location? Assuming WW Do we have any demographics of the users? Assuming overall users Did we see any drop recently in TV watching users metrics for which we want to improve the watch time on TVs? No, in general we want to improve this area. Are we looking to improve the overall Netflix watch time on TV, not to acquire new users? Correct. As Netflix is offering content of so many genres of con"See full answer

Rohit K. - "Clarifying scope : This is a feature on top of existing swiggy app to deliver prepared food for health-conscious people Clarify the term health conscious : Calory counters Macro trackers : Need balance of carb, protein, fat etc. Fresh Eaters :Need fresh ingredients Allergic due to some ingredient Ill people There can be various user personas along with respective pain points are: 1) Gym goers : No way to count the calories or track macro intakes in a swiggy order 2) Fresh eaters : Lack"See full answer

Medha A. - "% of content watched by clicking on recommended content Content watched by clicking on recommended content : Content watched through search"See full answer

Coach - "Product "XYZ" explain what it is and which audience it is serving. Goals Ease the anxiety Offer the most comprehensive perspective of Cloud Engagement Democratize Upsell Insights Business Review Deck Slide #1: NPS - Now, Trend & Insights + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #2: User Engagement Update - DAU, WAU, MAU, Actions Completed + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #3: Partnership Update - Share new cross org collabor"See full answer

Parag - "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"See full answer

Anonymous Caribou - "Sales and Delivery app: Ask Clarifying questions: What all parts of the user journey does this app play a role in? All delivery notifications go through this app. Tesla while completing sales does ask its customer to download this app. Sales can be completely done through the app. Sales person at Tesla could be reached through app. App can be used to buy other peripherals for Tesla. Success Metrics: Revenue: \# of car sales completed through the delivery app. \# of peripheral"See full answer

Aidynn E. - "Let's start with clarifying question -> What do we want to achieve with increased engagement? Let's say Spotify has personalization that prefers more engaged songs/podcast to be available to new users (who have not heard that song). Along the same lines as Facebook/Linkedin/Instagram prefers posts. The more the song/podcast is engaged among users, for more people it will be visible to listen. What users we are targeting? There are 2 broad categories of users such as creators and listen"See full answer

Joel A. - "Clarify: User experience improvements or revenue based improvements for the company? (Assumed UX) Can it be hardware or must it be software? (assumed I have the choice) Position: My favorite product is Airbnb. It's an app that let's people list their home for short term rental and then let's guests book those homes (or rooms) to stay in. It's used primarily for vacations but people all over the world now use it for business or even longer term stays. It's idea was pretty revolutionary a"See full answer

Kasturi K. - "What do you mean by smart lock. It is home locking system or digital locks Assuming it refers to home solutions that Google wants to get to build Customers Homeowners/ Rental Hotels Banks Vehicles Shops Each of the customer segments are good. Let’s investigate some of their characteristics Homeowners/ Rental – Huge Market as every urban house has a need. Hotels – Again the need is very high. Affordability is high. Low desirability to change existing set up. Banks – No"See full answer

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John F. - "First, I would like to establish some assumptions about the problem to determine if this is possible. For this scenario, I will assume that “accepted” does not mean a student is enrolled at the university (most students apply to multiple universities and can only attend one university). For simplicity, I will also assume that each student is applies to a single department and that every student is associated with a single department. Based on this information, I see a scenario that this would"See full answer

Pramod V. - "I would like to ask questions to the interviewer as to if the company or I as TPM have any success history handling this magnitude. Also, I will talk on my behalf to justify my experience and caliber to drive this magnitude of project to success. But, I always follow a flow-chart approach when meeting exec management where I do my home work studying the current state of the project/ pain points/ issues/ blockers and steps we have taken or planning to take next to mitigate it. Now w.r.t the flow"See full answer

Josh L. - "I would define success by first figuring out what our goal is by building the reels feature. Are we trying to increase DAUs? Increase enagement? Etc... For the sake of this, I think to define success it makes most sense to see if there is an increase in the amount of time users are spending on instagram. If time spent per user increases, it is likely that ad spend can increase and in turn increases instagram's reveue. We need to be sure that there are guard rails in place and make sure that by"See full answer