Product Manager Interview Questions

Claire W. - "Add more social features"See full answer

Rev - "Narrow down on a person (born in city childhood - school - college - work - retirement) Age: 0-5 = ignoring travel for this part (might travel with parents) 5-19 = weekdays school, weekends outings School distance 5 km , total = 10km (to & fro) (4 intersections * 1min(time spent) = 4 min/ day) 52 x 5 x 4 = 1040 mins ~ 15 hrs 15 * 14 yrs = 210 hrs Weekends 52 x 2 = 104 days * 0.3 = 30 days Trips = 10 km (8 intersections * 1min(time spent) = 8 mins) 30 x 8 ="See full answer

Negar H. - "SW: Headway (Audio book app) Goal: Track user engagement with the product. (Analytics) To Track user engagement with the product I would first define the user actions defined as user engagement, and then define quantitative metrics to track user behaviour. User actions -> engagement: Actions: User Plays an Audio book (following by user's retention) User uses Next chapter button to continue listening User marks Audio books as favourites User shares Audio books Metrics: DAU & 2."See full answer

Anonymous Panda - "Goal: The goal of the product is to create a virtual communication system that enables the CEO/Executives of Google to have realistic in-person interactions with people located in different parts of the world. Identifying Different Users: CEO of Google Business executives and professionals Selecting Right User: The primary user for this product is the CEO of Google who needs to have a virtual communication system that can facilitate face-to-face interactions. Defining Features: High-q"See full answer

Lakshmi tejaswi S. - "First I would like to define what a negative experience might construe Unable to book the reservation Customers unable to cancel reservations The customers unable to find restaurants in the location they are in customers unable to interact or leave reviews. I will try to solve for the first one. In this scenario, I would like to understand the frequency of the issue’s occurrence. I will try to understand if there was a new feature rolled out that may have impacted it such as chang"See full answer

Amit S. - "Fast food service Good service application."See full answer

Shahnawaz K. - "I am going to assume, the person is 50 years old and uses a basic feature phone. Here is how it goes Local Context: When you come back from morning walk, you are your friends stop at a chai point to rest and have tea, what do you talk about ? (Assume he says everything and anything). Imagine there are no friends but you still want to talk and you want your friends and everyone to listen to your thoughts / rant. Imagine you don’t want to talk but you want only listen to what your frien"See full answer

Exponent - "It's always good to start with identifying what type of problem you're tackling. The problem we need to tackle is essentially a variation on a Favorite Product Question. We know there's a formula for this type of question, so now our job is to tactically execute on the formula. Let's begin with the Favorite Product Question formula: Choose a product and briefly explain what it is Who are the users? What are their pain points? **How did competitors solve it in the"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. There's no set formula, but we recommend proposing at least three different reasons to answer the question. Let's go over one possible solution: > If I were TikTok, I would look to monetize it similar to Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook: through dedicated ad channels.Specifically having pre-roll ads appear on open, and ads appear in-feed every few videos. TikTok is the perfect platform to lever"See full answer

RestlessMonk - "Below data was given in a an excel. Data of 6 weeks, at a weekly level of COVID samples collected and tested Age Group, Population size, # tested, # positive, gender My approach: Tried to understand the trend of positivity rate of each group across weeks and cumulative level There is no variation across weeks, and each cohort exhibited similar pattern in all the weeks. So looked at cumulative data of 6 weeks. No clear goal/objective set by the interviewer for vaccine distributio"See full answer

Sg S. - "Let’s talk about goals first Goals are: Yelp:
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I assumed that main goal is the revenue from advertising. It PPC advertising so we want more people to click on it.
2 Keep high user engagement level advertisers: want to keep the CR and CPS. Let’s discuss how can we define the appropriate number of ads: We can set up AB testing with different number of ads. We want to see if there is significant revenue increase when we show 1,3,5 ads.
We also want to check the tradeoffs and be sure tha"See full answer

Coco H. - "These works often aren't comparable, so that I'd use a balanced portfolio of 20%-30% engineering needs and 70%-80% user needs to satisfy both sides. However, this is only a starting point, if engineering requests more than this baseline then I would use ROI to prioritize."See full answer

Soso K. - "Clarification: This is only for Facebook and not for Instagram, whatsapp etc. Facebook Hashtag helps Meta users to drive visibility into user posts as well as help categorize a post, feeling to what others in the community might be feeling. This helps bring the community together and that aligns with the mission of Facebook, which is to bring the world closer. This feature is also not a new feature in overall social media landscape, Twitter did it before and gained instant popularity. Wit"See full answer

Palak A. - "By looking at QPS prolly! I mean that's the success metric for it after all, right? Maybe not, love to know your thoughts down below."See full answer