Product Manager Interview Questions

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

Y C. - "Clarifying questions Financial savviness is it related means Digital wallet Prudent Spending habits Intuitive savings Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful Geographical or any other constraint Product goal - This is in total alignment with Google's mission as it is trying to provide the consumers their financial information and making it useful. Engagement User personas Students Millennials Professionals -"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

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

Vinayak A. - "First thing I would do is dig deeper into the problem. Starting off with the data source suggesting the drop of 10%. Next is investigating - what does drop in traffic mean? For example - 10% drop in logins, email traffic, email creation. Next, once I identify the its for example an issue with logins, I would like to drill a deeper into further isolating the problem based on geography, operating platform (mobile/desktop), specific time of day, any other information I could get. At this point,"See full answer

Andrea M. - "Asked clarifying questions to understand why we want to do this. Said building is too labor intensive and AirBnB has years of experience in this. Said buying a company is probably too expensive and doesn't address why we're doing this to begin with. I said partnering with a travel company might be the best move."See full answer

Karthik M. - "Assumptions & Clarifications Users have access to all Google Workspace applications like Google Drive, Gmail and the same photo editing tool - let us call this tool - Google Photo Editor (GPhoto). Users can share the images like Google Docs - giving people read-only, read-write / edit access Goals Google's vision is to organize the world's information and make it accessible. GPhoto's mission / goal is to organize the world’s photo and make it accessible to others to view, edit or"See full answer

Alex C. - "I would have been destroyed on this."See full answer

Shashank S. - "As a Product Manager, my goal is to design a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) that enhances the customer experience, increases engagement, and ultimately drives business growth. Here's a comprehensive plan to achieve this: Problem Statement: Our existing homepage, while functional, lacks a personalized touch, failing to adequately address the diverse needs and preferences of our customers. This results in a suboptimal user experience, leading to decreased customer satisfaction, reduced booking f"See full answer

Anonymous Moose - "Clarifying Questions: Why does Meta want to build this product ? {Aligns with Meta's mission of connecting people} What's the goal ? Does Meta want to monetise this initiative in any way? {It wants to increase the total number of users using this platform and then in the mid-term increase engagement} User Groups: Young (20-40), tech-savvy working professional; seeking doctor consultation for self, friends and family members (First) Older mass (50+), seeking frequent and accessible doct"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a classic Favorite Product question with a constrained product type. For this, we want to make sure it's a SaaS product. Let's go over the Favorite Product formula before diving in: 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 past? How does this product address these pain points differently and better? How would you improve it/make it better? **Summarize"See full answer