Product Manager Interview Questions

Apurv K. - "!! FEEDBACK WELCOME !! Clarify question By art we mean visual art, e.g. paintings? - Yes Is this a solution to create art on Instagram or to showcase existing art on Instagram? - Create art Why build this, Engagement or Acquisition? - Engagement Reframe: We want to increase Instagram engagement through creation and sharing of art with followers. Talking about the space The Internet has over time continuously reduced barriers to creative expression. From blogging to Twitter,"See full answer

Pratik M. - "Few clarifying questions here Is the competitor a service and does it have other offerings as well? Is it charging $5 for a service or only email? Is it for a specific platform here? Or does it include all platforms? Does the competitor have a huge market share/or is it a small company? Let's assume it's only for email's The structure I would want to layout for knowing what to do next for Gmail would be the following - Mission, Goals, Google's revenue model, Customer Profiles using Gm"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "Clarification Questions What does it mean by Next Gen Elevator? → Next Gen Elevator means Elevator using new technologies. Where is this Elevator situated? → Skyscrapers, Commercial Buildings, Residential Buildings or Elevators to Space? Assuming it’s Commercial Buildings. What is the Goal of Making Next Gen Elevators? Is it improving Safety? User Experience? Assuming it’s User Experience _Goal: To design an elevator using emerging technologies to improve user experience in a C"See full answer

Rasheek N. - "Clarify: I have some clarifying questions I would like to get answered Is this a podcast app that uses Netflix actors/actresses/producers/etc? Is this available to everyone or just Netflix subscribers? How is this product presented? Is it apart of the Netflix app or its own separate app? Goals: First thing first is to understand Netflix. Netflix is a streaming platform that differentiates itself by being the first platform that creates its own original content. It is facing massi"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: · Is there a specific scenario we are building before? Example: urgent need for a specific type of blood vs building up blood banks proactively. You decide · This would be for mobile/web and integrate into the existing facebook product? Yes Ok before we get started I wanted to discuss the facebook mission: to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. I can see how blood donation fits directly into this, enabling blood donation helps"See full answer

Kari J. - "I got this question in my Mini-Case today. I was a little confused because even though I asked a few clarifying questions -- it didn't clarify much! :-) My response was to what was shown on screen -- a mock of the current process (five modal windows) and a mock of a new single modal. THe ask for this was what do you like and dislike in the mock for the new. I will admit that it would have been easy to say what was wrong with the current process - but since the ask was for the new mock, and"See full answer

Boluwatife P. - "I think I will start by knowing the goal of the improvement, is to improve adoption metrics, revenue or churn rate? Business goal? What segment of our users are we focusing on?"See full answer

Marcos P. - "100 people per floor x 100 floors = 10,000 people. Uses of the elevator per day per person: 4, so 40,000 rides per day. Average length of a ride = 50 floors, assuming each ride is to the lobby. Target time per ride: 1 minute. Assuming 80% of traffic occurs during four rush hours, then 32,000 rides must happen in that time, so 133 per minute. Assuming six people per ride then you get 22 elevators required to operate during peak times. I reality you have to treat this as a Poisson arrival process"See full answer

stash - "To answer this question I am going to first clarify the product offering and what ti does, talk about the goals for IG reels for Facebook, go through user actions and then come up with some key metrics to measure success of the product based on the goals. Product Overview IG reel allows creators to build short-form video with a bunch of different editing features and post that to their followers or to the broader IG network. It allows regular IG users to create their own content and build"See full answer

Vivek S. - "This question can be answered in two different ways: a. Strategic b. Product Sense Since , the question is which product you would work upon , it is likely a product strategy question , where interviewer is trying to find about how would you go about selecting the product to solve for. Another approach would be to clarify on the two approaches from the Interviewer. Can ask your hierarchy in PM role [ APM/PM/ Sr. PM / GPM ] and then approach this. Candidate : Do you have any specific goal"See full answer

Chloe E. - "Here’s my general framework/formula/structure: Clarify - What do I need to know to make the question/prompt a little less ambiguous? What assumptions do I need to establish with the interviewer? Example: I would probably ask - Are we focused on professional/gig musicians who do music for a living? Or casual hobbyist musicians who make music for fun? Or I may want to know if I should focus on building on to a current Meta product like Instagram/FB Reels or think independently of th"See full answer

Bipin R. - "As you know, this is the most important question for any interview. Here is a structure I like to follow, Start with 'I'm currently a SDE/PM/TPM etc with XYZ company.... ' Mention how you got into PM/TPM/SDE field (explaining your journey) Mention 1 or 2 accomplishments Mention what you do outside work (blogging, volunteer etc) Share why are you looking for a new role Ask the interviewer if they have any questions or will like to dive deep into any of your experience"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions I am assuming the time frame for this question is irrelevant as this is a hypothetical question? : Yes Is IG prioritising the creator side or the viewer side more at the moment? : What do you think? I think it should be a balance for the long term sustenance of the network Are all these reels and views in a particular geography or globally? : Globally What is the duration for which these Views are measured? Assume a day Do we know anything about other engagemen"See full answer

John F. - "Around mid-2023, I was tasked with investigating the feasibility of selling access to our site to third-party vendors who wanted to use bots to automate processes for their clients. Some initial work had been done on this but it was very high-level and very little data or analysis had actually been done. When I was tasked with this the idea was to sell access to a special header that would allow vendors to by-pass our F5 Shape implementation, a bot defense tool. From a business and security pers"See full answer

Kunal S. - "Clarifying questions: Are there any specific constraints that you want me to take in to account when thinking through this problem : [Interviewer] No Can i think through this in freeform or is there a specific goal we are trying to achieve : [Interviewer] I will let you decide the goal Strategic Analysis: Spotifyies mission is to - "Unlock the potential of human creativity – by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the o"See full answer

Shubh - "Defining the product Spotify is a music & podcast streaming application and by podcast, we are talking about the audio podcasts which creators upload on the app. Clarifying Questions & respective assumptions Context Who are we improving the product for? Creators or Consumers? What are the current features for consumers in brief? Each podcast has episodes, about(audio trailer), more like this Why are we doing this? Where are we planning to l"See full answer

Hams A. - "When evaluating different high-end brands of products manufactured in China, how can one determine if a "new" product meets high-quality standards?"See full answer

Adi S. - "Addressed the duality of the feature - each user is a consumer and provider Addressed pain points such as cleaning, security "See full answer