Product Manager Interview Questions

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  • "To clarify are we looking to build this product within FB app or standalone – standalone Can I assume I can build for US as mvp and then we can roll it globally phase wise – yes Is there a limitation to what task we want to cater people on our app or it could be multi task usual handyman not a niche – yes usual handyman Ok so if I understand we are designing a product for handyman for usual task to launch it in US and this is a standalone app not residing in FB app Overall I will talk about mi"

    Priyank S. - "To clarify are we looking to build this product within FB app or standalone – standalone Can I assume I can build for US as mvp and then we can roll it globally phase wise – yes Is there a limitation to what task we want to cater people on our app or it could be multi task usual handyman not a niche – yes usual handyman Ok so if I understand we are designing a product for handyman for usual task to launch it in US and this is a standalone app not residing in FB app Overall I will talk about mi"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Program Sense
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    " Situation In the derivatives trading domain, timely and accurate data is crucial for making informed trading decisions. Our existing data processing system was facing challenges with latency and scalability, which hindered our ability to react swiftly to market changes. To address these issues, we designed a new real-time market data processing platform. Task The task was to develop a low-latency data processing platform that could handle real-time market data ingestion, processing, an"

    Scott S. - " Situation In the derivatives trading domain, timely and accurate data is crucial for making informed trading decisions. Our existing data processing system was facing challenges with latency and scalability, which hindered our ability to react swiftly to market changes. To address these issues, we designed a new real-time market data processing platform. Task The task was to develop a low-latency data processing platform that could handle real-time market data ingestion, processing, an"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Technical
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  • Stripe logoAsked at Stripe 

    "The key to this is to be concise and specific. You won't need to code as a product manager, but understanding technology is important. Only give enough information to validate your knowledge. By speaking too much, you may make a mistake (if you're not technical). > Sure! I'll list the first five I can think of off the top of my head. There's a login endpoint that logs a user in, a signup endpoint to sign up a user, there's likely an endpoint to grab a list of songs to display in a playlist, a su"

    Exponent - "The key to this is to be concise and specific. You won't need to code as a product manager, but understanding technology is important. Only give enough information to validate your knowledge. By speaking too much, you may make a mistake (if you're not technical). > Sure! I'll list the first five I can think of off the top of my head. There's a login endpoint that logs a user in, a signup endpoint to sign up a user, there's likely an endpoint to grab a list of songs to display in a playlist, a su"See full answer

    Product Manager
  • "Total volume of the swimming pool, let's say it's a standard 50m x 25 m x 2m =2500 m3 = 2.5 million litter standard water horse water flow rate is 17 liter per min. So, 2.5 m / 17 =147,059 min"

    onering2ruleall - "Total volume of the swimming pool, let's say it's a standard 50m x 25 m x 2m =2500 m3 = 2.5 million litter standard water horse water flow rate is 17 liter per min. So, 2.5 m / 17 =147,059 min"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Estimation
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • "YouTube is a platform that lets users upload self generated content that's available for all other users to view, globally. It has a freemium model where unpaid users can watch unlimited content. However, the paid users get additional features that enhance the viewing experience. YouTube would like to move the unpaid users to a paid subscription model as it ensures higher ARPU for YT and gives users incentive to repeated come back to the platform to watch content. **Ways to increase conversion"

    Rahul J. - "YouTube is a platform that lets users upload self generated content that's available for all other users to view, globally. It has a freemium model where unpaid users can watch unlimited content. However, the paid users get additional features that enhance the viewing experience. YouTube would like to move the unpaid users to a paid subscription model as it ensures higher ARPU for YT and gives users incentive to repeated come back to the platform to watch content. **Ways to increase conversion"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Product Manager
    Product Design
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"

    Akshai V. - "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
    +1 more
  • Goldman Sachs logoAsked at Goldman Sachs 
    +1

    "Manage up to set expectations and manage down with knowledge and empathy for the work they do"

    Praveen K. - "Manage up to set expectations and manage down with knowledge and empathy for the work they do"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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  • +6

    "Not at all impressed. Very simple problem he is solved"

    Anonymous Angelfish - "Not at all impressed. Very simple problem he is solved"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • "We have to work with the c-suite to understood the direct quartly outcomes or goals. This could be our epic and then we try to break that down into business value and complexity . This will allow us to prioritize whats next. From there we can structure a mvp to cover maybe some of these areas to understand the estimation of this work. After the first couple weeks we can structure a roadmap and then define when"

    Howard H. - "We have to work with the c-suite to understood the direct quartly outcomes or goals. This could be our epic and then we try to break that down into business value and complexity . This will allow us to prioritize whats next. From there we can structure a mvp to cover maybe some of these areas to understand the estimation of this work. After the first couple weeks we can structure a roadmap and then define when"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Refer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi/"

    Ash I. - "Refer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi/"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 

    "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "

    Himanshu V. - "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • "Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"

    Niaz - "Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
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  • Affirm logoAsked at Affirm 
    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • "First, I would like to ask some clarifying questions. Are we talking about the business metrics dashboard or health metrics(like response time)? - it is up to you Do I understand right that Netflix is a subscription-based video streaming service for watchers? So I know that they create original content for Netflix, but it is out of the scope of this question. - right My approach will be to: Define the business goal from Netflix’s mission Break down the actions taken by users at each stage of the"

    Yulia D. - "First, I would like to ask some clarifying questions. Are we talking about the business metrics dashboard or health metrics(like response time)? - it is up to you Do I understand right that Netflix is a subscription-based video streaming service for watchers? So I know that they create original content for Netflix, but it is out of the scope of this question. - right My approach will be to: Define the business goal from Netflix’s mission Break down the actions taken by users at each stage of the"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Execution
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  • "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"

    Jim T. - "In the end I said number of bookings, but explained how I would get there. I talked about the company's mission first (which I didn't know but guessed it was something about making it easier or more accessible for people to travel) and then talked about a few potential metrics that could fit (bookings, NPS, etc). But in the end I explained that number of bookings is not only tied to their core value proposition, but it also reflected a happy customer base on both sides of the transaction (renter"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
  • Pinterest logoAsked at Pinterest 
    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • "I would go look in the mirror and ask that person why the legal team is only flagging issues a week ahead of launch date. Did I not engage our legal team way in advance at the conception stage? Did I not follow up or collaborated with my program manager to follow up shortly with the legal team to check their progress of evaluating issues? If I did not do these things, it is on me. Let's assume I did do those things, but the legal team needed a lot of time to evaluate or get external opinion, th"

    Anonymous Sparrow - "I would go look in the mirror and ask that person why the legal team is only flagging issues a week ahead of launch date. Did I not engage our legal team way in advance at the conception stage? Did I not follow up or collaborated with my program manager to follow up shortly with the legal team to check their progress of evaluating issues? If I did not do these things, it is on me. Let's assume I did do those things, but the legal team needed a lot of time to evaluate or get external opinion, th"See full answer

    Product Manager
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Clarify What do we mean by memorialize? Are we aiming to launch a physical or software product? What is our goal with this product? Are there specific types of pets we have in mind? Assumption Memorialize means to remind ourselves about our loved pets who passed away. We would like to launch a software product. The goal is to help users cope with the lose of their beloved pets. We also focus on house pets, keeping it for dogs and cats as the biggest market for pets. User"

    Tomer B. - "Clarify What do we mean by memorialize? Are we aiming to launch a physical or software product? What is our goal with this product? Are there specific types of pets we have in mind? Assumption Memorialize means to remind ourselves about our loved pets who passed away. We would like to launch a software product. The goal is to help users cope with the lose of their beloved pets. We also focus on house pets, keeping it for dogs and cats as the biggest market for pets. User"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
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