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Product Manager Interview Questions

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  • Walmart Labs logoAsked at Walmart Labs 
    +1

    "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"

    Shashi R. - "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
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  • "Objective: Proposal for expanding the service offerings for small restaurants and local cafes. The objective is to enhance the Instacart Business platform by integrating local vendors (Speciality Food & Beverage Business Units) to increase product selection and improve supply chain efficiencies for business customers. Market Focus: The target market includes food service establishments characterized by their need for distinct, locally sourced ingredients and their struggles wi"

    realkimchi - "Objective: Proposal for expanding the service offerings for small restaurants and local cafes. The objective is to enhance the Instacart Business platform by integrating local vendors (Speciality Food & Beverage Business Units) to increase product selection and improve supply chain efficiencies for business customers. Market Focus: The target market includes food service establishments characterized by their need for distinct, locally sourced ingredients and their struggles wi"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • "Clarifying questions : What do you mean by many stakeholders, can you share more details on it. Who all are involved in opinions. General Approach will be : In order to reach somewhere, we need to HAVE one OKR and drive a hypothesis to validate if we are doing reach OKR. Since there are multiple stakeholders: I would create a PRD and conduct discovery sessions to understand their pain points + priorities. We can then use Ansoff Metrix to identify where we want to invest ? "

    Jaim - "Clarifying questions : What do you mean by many stakeholders, can you share more details on it. Who all are involved in opinions. General Approach will be : In order to reach somewhere, we need to HAVE one OKR and drive a hypothesis to validate if we are doing reach OKR. Since there are multiple stakeholders: I would create a PRD and conduct discovery sessions to understand their pain points + priorities. We can then use Ansoff Metrix to identify where we want to invest ? "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • "strengths- Working with engineering, working with metrics, execution Weakness- ideation and visioning, working with design"

    George A. - "strengths- Working with engineering, working with metrics, execution Weakness- ideation and visioning, working with design"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Intuit logoAsked at Intuit 
    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
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  • Salesforce logoAsked at Salesforce 

    "This is my first attempt. Requesting feedback - Design a bookshelf for the users. I would like to create a framework to solve this problem and follow it. It will have the below sections - Goals User Persona Use Cases Pain Points Features Prioritization Metrics Few clarifying questions - What is the objective of doing this? (User engagement, matching a product that a competition has just launched) What type of industry we are in? (Are we a furniture design company, ar"

    Sandeep B. - "This is my first attempt. Requesting feedback - Design a bookshelf for the users. I would like to create a framework to solve this problem and follow it. It will have the below sections - Goals User Persona Use Cases Pain Points Features Prioritization Metrics Few clarifying questions - What is the objective of doing this? (User engagement, matching a product that a competition has just launched) What type of industry we are in? (Are we a furniture design company, ar"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Affirm logoAsked at Affirm 

    "What‘s the goal of increasing Spotify’s premium subscribers? - To monetize and get more premium subscribers Users: Target users could potentially fall in 3 categories 1) Users who are interested in paying a premium price for great curated playlists 2) Users who are interested in listening to music but not willing to pay a price Targeting #1 Pain points: 1) As a user I wouldn’t want to subscribe to something w/o being listening to the playlists 2) If I do subscribe I would like to receiv"

    Anuradha T. - "What‘s the goal of increasing Spotify’s premium subscribers? - To monetize and get more premium subscribers Users: Target users could potentially fall in 3 categories 1) Users who are interested in paying a premium price for great curated playlists 2) Users who are interested in listening to music but not willing to pay a price Targeting #1 Pain points: 1) As a user I wouldn’t want to subscribe to something w/o being listening to the playlists 2) If I do subscribe I would like to receiv"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Product Manager
    Analytical
    +1 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Followed Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize "

    A B. - "Followed Clarifying questions - why this product - competition - Meta's mission - product vision - user segments - prioritize and Why - pain points for prioritized segment - prioritize pain points - list solutions - tradeoff - North star - summerize "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • "CQs Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general Any time of the day , store should be able to handle To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products Day to day grocery Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ? We suddenly become local's favorite We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"

    Abhi S. - "CQs Is 10x capacity any specific time or in general Any time of the day , store should be able to handle To confirm, Grocery store objective is to sell day to day grocery and vegetables? Or do we want to include any other products Day to day grocery Why is the foot traffic more than 10x the typical cap. Was the store designed poorly or did the store not predict the foot traffic correctly ? We suddenly become local's favorite We want to design this single store to handle 10X capacity an"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "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
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman. Clarifying questions: Why does Meta want to build this? A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why. When: No fixed duration for release. Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with. Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"

    Varun S. - "Question: You'e a PM at Meta. Design a product for users to find a handyman. Clarifying questions: Why does Meta want to build this? A: Up to you to decide that, hoping to here you say why. When: No fixed duration for release. Market: I'd like to focus on a developed market, where technology reach is wider and people are more at ease with using online platforms for tasks. Maybe focus on the US market to start with. Standalone app - We will need to distinguish ourselves and create an identity"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • Adobe logoAsked at Adobe 

    "This may seem tricky at first, but this is actually an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. The only difference is this is specifically for small businesses within that market. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions: Ask clarifying questions Perform user analysis Market risk analysis State goals Perform channel analysis Prioritize growth channels Strategy Summarize Witho"

    Exponent - "This may seem tricky at first, but this is actually an Expansion problem, since we're expanding to a new market. The only difference is this is specifically for small businesses within that market. This is the formula you should use when tackling these types of interview questions: Ask clarifying questions Perform user analysis Market risk analysis State goals Perform channel analysis Prioritize growth channels Strategy Summarize Witho"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Strategy
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 

    "Clarifications: Netflix is a streaming service and homepage serves the first entry point after a user has been logged in to their respective profile. Homepage helps users find a relevant content for them to watch, among other features like "Continue watching" or games. Mission: Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. Goal: As a PM of homepage, the goal of the feature is to let the users find relevant content of their interest. This feature ties to the mission in a way that lets the user"

    Simran M. - "Clarifications: Netflix is a streaming service and homepage serves the first entry point after a user has been logged in to their respective profile. Homepage helps users find a relevant content for them to watch, among other features like "Continue watching" or games. Mission: Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. Goal: As a PM of homepage, the goal of the feature is to let the users find relevant content of their interest. This feature ties to the mission in a way that lets the user"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Analytical
    +2 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    +3

    "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"

    Chelsea F. - "Questions: Clarify: High school = grades 9-12? So roughly ages 15-18 (4 years)? Are we talking about all high-school aged kids, or kids who actually attend HS? Do we count home schoolers? Drop outs? Assumptions: Let's assume we're estimating the number of children in the U.S. who are enrolled in/attend HS Assuming a uniform distribution of the population across ages Approach: U.S. Population = 300m Average lifespan = 80 years 4 years represented by HS age = 5% of the populati"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Estimation
  • Google logoAsked at Google 

    "Since Experimentation is a Broad Term I would like to ask a couple of Clarifying questions What kind of Experimentation User Behavior with newly introduced Beta features AI/Image learning Based Experimentation to test out trial features Something else API based experimentation for user/Third-party experiments,with APIs for new features exposed(this has a lot of potential where devs of apps etc can integrate new experimentation features in their apps with minima"

    Manas M. - "Since Experimentation is a Broad Term I would like to ask a couple of Clarifying questions What kind of Experimentation User Behavior with newly introduced Beta features AI/Image learning Based Experimentation to test out trial features Something else API based experimentation for user/Third-party experiments,with APIs for new features exposed(this has a lot of potential where devs of apps etc can integrate new experimentation features in their apps with minima"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Product Design
  • "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
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