Interview Questions

anush - "@Jacob, your videos are really good and helpful. I want to know about the tool, you use for explaining the design in the videos."See full answer

Sam - "Disagreement --> persistent ---> more data insights ---> positive relationship ---> mentor/trust"See full answer

P K. - "Assuming this product is independent of FB product family and we are thinking of building an independent product. Goal: Make it easy for users to simplify the appointment process with the doctor. Success: Number of appointments made, repeat appointments made. Lets understand who are the key personas involved here: Doctors/Clinics (Excluding dentists) Patients/Users For this problem, I want to focus on the patient persona and go deeper into their problems. The various user segments ar"See full answer

Ankita K. - "Clarifying questions: What is user frustration/ Define user frustration? Was this qualitative feedback, or some reviews on playstore or support that we saw recently or some drop in metrics or increase in churn, or overall churn that we are addressing? Let's assume frustration leads to users quitting the app and hence an increase in churn. This churn also indicates that users leaving the app after trying out a particular feature and not doing the core action of seeing the route from point A to p"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

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

Debajyoti B. - "Firstly, it's mentioned "ideas" & not "idea". I would like to get more context. Is it one idea or multiple ideas on a roadmap? Is it tied to the same broader goal? Is this a pattern where team has been disagreeing with ideas for a while? If it's the 1st, then it's fine, we can look into it. If it's the 2nd, then it raises a bit of a concern. Gonna assume it's the 1st. I'd probably get clarity by asking questions To the team: Which idea/s are being disagreed upon? Are all member"See full answer

Manu G. - "Design an alarm clock for blind people Clarifying question: Does it have to be a physical product or software? Your call Do I need to think about the long-term implications of the product from a strategy perspective or a single product? single product What are the metrics this company will focus on? Engagement What industry are we in? (start-up, google/Amazon, etc) - Startup What do we mean by blind? - ppl who cannot see anything, or people who still have sense of"See full answer

Debajyoti B. - "Clarify the problem: What does exercising mean here?- can be anything with minimal to moderate activities like yoga, cardio, running, bodyweight exercises So for this product, should we consider only physical health or mental health or both- assume physical health for now Any specific objective that we are thinking about?- to re-create the habit in people to take at least 30mins of their time in their daily life for some exercise Are we talking about a physical or digital product?- d"See full answer

Urvashi G. - "YT threats →. Let's define threat - activities that reduce actual or growth rate for user base / watch time / $ User - what impacts user base, users’ watch time (why would users not use YT anymore?) Competition - all apps that compete for users' time spent on digital entertainment (VOD, social media apps like tiktok, vMVPDs) Safety, trust, privacy, digital well being No relevant content Distribution - platform bans, distribution deals falling through (eg smart TVs)"See full answer

Nikitha G. - "Context / Goal: Have we seen this decrease in response time over a while (week/month) or short time (day/hours) - Over the last few months How is Employer Response time calculated? - Average time from an employee applying for a job to an employer responding - This isn’t accounting for the increase in listings / number of applicants but does it need to? Was there a change to how response time is calculated? - No Can job listings be duplicates? - Yes, but not likely i"See full answer

A B. - "Great explanation on each of the components and their use. During the interview would a PM candidate be expected to go in-depth for capacity estimation (e.g. storage estimation, bandwidth estimation etc.?)"See full answer

Gokul S. - "A gas station is a place to refuel our cars to a set amount, pay for it, and get out. What do we mean by great - do we want to revamp the experience of a gas station? Yes. Who are we? Let's say we are one of the big oil dealerships in the US. OK, so we are looking at building this in the US? Yes. Is this for a specific type of gas station - for trucks, normal cars, or other special vehicles? Assume it's for normal cars. We are a big oil dealership and we want to revamp our gas stations."See full answer

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

Elisa L. - "Facebook’s mission statement is to build community, so any product related to movies that Facebook builds should have that in mind. I’ll start by looking at the lifecycle of a movie and then some current pain points that people might have to think about opportunities for a movies product. The lifecycle of a movie revolves around creation (script, filming, casting, acting), production, and distribution (streaming services vs theatres). An idea for creation could be helping users collaborate or"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd tell the interviewer that I'd start off with clarifying the question to make sure I understand it correctly (see 1 below). Then, I'd tell the interviewer my approach to make sure they know what to expect as I talk through. Approach would start with discussing the mission and connecting a north star metric (NSM) to the mission, then discuss key product metrics that are inputs towards NSM. If there's time at the end and if the interviewer wants to go down this path, we should also talk about t"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

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

Saketh reddy S. - "Understanding Reels – What It Is, Who Uses It, and What Problem It Solves What Is Reels? Reels is Meta’s short-form video platform embedded within Instagram and Facebook, designed to capture the rising demand for snackable video content and compete directly with TikTok and YouTube Shorts. Unlike Stories, which focus on temporary sharing, Reels is designed for entertainment, discoverability, and viral trends, making it a crucial driver for user engagement and creator monetization. Who Are the"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