Product Manager Interview Questions

Shin K. - "First of all, there are different industries with different business in security measures which influence trends in the security industry as information they store and infrastructure they have are not the same. In this exercise, I'll take a look at the security industry in general and talk about the biggest trends from the perspectives of "lines of defense" for software in particular in: identify, data (on client and server side) and infrastructure. There are several topics associated with each"See full answer

Sim S. - "Started with user-groups to identify the differences world wide: speed of internet, how high end devices are The interviewer just wanted to dive into the questions of latency & the technical fast. I then said let's separate out server vs client. On server side, cannot have australian users hitting california servers for data. So must be some sort of global availability of caching. And ensure rapid read out of that cache so something like a redis solution would help. Then switch gears to cli"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. This could be confused with an expansion problem, but it's only asking for the risks. You should be thorough with the risks and identify as many as possible. Let's go over one possible solution: > Expanding to China could be a huge opportunity for Netflix, but it's definitely risky. I'd love to go over a few risks that we should consider. To me, the biggest risks are:Censorship > Chinese compet"See full answer

Brody C. - "Clarifying Questions: When you say Language Learning app, you're referring to a user wanting to learn a new language through a Meta property - not NLP tech correct? -- Yes Is this a stand-alone app, or part of Facebook or another Meta app? -- You choose Are there any restrictions like budget, or time for this learning app? -- Nope. Give me a moment to think about how I want to structure this answer: Mission // Goal of Language Learning App Competition Audience Segments Pain Points "See full answer

Aniket B. - "Firstly lets note down the ways of monetization - Promotional Ads Paid Filters and AR effects Influencer promotional fee Instagram Additional Tools for Creators - subscription basis (analytics and management) > many influencers also run their own promotional campaigns to gain more and more followers on their handles - Instagram can use this opportunity (e-commerce sites ranking algorithm of different items/sellers) > promotional ads can affect slightly on user engagement but accord"See full answer

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

Jacob C. - "Clarifying Questions: What currently defines profile completion? Does it have to be 100% completion or something like 80% of all available profile attributes. Or is it some specific set of must-have profile attributes like bio, current job, previous experience, etc. May I know some successful things that are helping users complete their profiles today and some unsuccessful ones as well that we tried but did not show lift in profile completion metrics? Goal: Engagement from free u"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

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

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

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

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