Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

Rudra pratap S. - "Install was sudden or gradual. Let’s we are seeing it from last month. It it happening in any particular country or location? Let’s say india only. Have we seen any bad PR issues from our competitors? Let’s say no. Have we launched any new song from any famous singer in the last month? Let’s say no. Only installs are increased or free to premium conversion is also increased. Let’s say yes we have seen increase in free to premium conversion also. Have we launched any new market campaign with extr"See full answer

Kanika - "https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/what-happens-when-you-hit-url-in-your-browser/"See full answer

Exponent - "You should be able to identify this as a clear Strategy Question, which asks you to justify high-level business decisions and strategy. One thing to note is the interviewer said "briefly". Be concise and to the point. Here are some good arguments for the Youtube acquisition: > There are a few reasons why Google would want to acquire YouTube. I'll go over a few of the main reasons why I think they went ahead with such a large acquisition. At the time of the YouTube acquisition, Google and You"See full answer

Exponent - "This is an interesting Favorite Product question. Normally when we're asked this question we pick technology products, but this time the interviewer wanted to throw us a curveball by asking about a non-technical product. Don't worry - it still follows the same approach: 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 differe"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Fermi problem — an estimation or approximation problem with limited information and back-of-the-envelope calculations. There's no right answer: interviewers want to understand how you think and how well you can explain your reasoning, rather than what you already know. Recall the formula for Fermi problems: Ask clarifying questions Catalog what you know Make equation(s) Think about edge cases to add to equation **Breakdown components of your"See full answer

Veronica S. - " CQ: 1. Understanding of Google search and the way ads are being displayed today. What kind of subscription model are we thinking of: same as youtube I talked about Google search as a flagship product of google. % of revenue generated from ads. Other search engines and there % share in the market. Other players such as Facebook whose 99% revenue is from ads. Talked about Google Mission and alignment of the ads with Google mission Pro Con list of subscription versus ads User exp. 2."See full answer

Anonymous Amphibian - "Clarifying questions: Just to be on the same page this move is more like a transfer lasting at least a year or more. Is this a move within the same country Is this going to be launched in US and are we focusing only on tier-1 cities in the beginning User personas – People moving away for a new job. Students move to a different city for college. Move to a new city for a new life. Pain points: Managing so much of"See full answer

Maggie Y. - "8 Questions in 1 hr. no additional info is available from the interviewer, not much interaction. I still don't quite understand their objective."See full answer

Simer S. - "I would start by asking a clarifying question - Is there a specific problem we are trying to solve? I want to get some guidance from the interviewer around the type of answer they're looking for or if there's specific paths they want us to take. Ultimately, I would start by identifying the users and moving through the process by identifying pain points and then potential solutions. It is important to start to get into the details of the solutions and features once pain points have been identifie"See full answer

Sam M. - "The design review has three stages; In-draft, Review and Complete. I consider a design review completed when the problem statement has been clearly addressed via a feature or a solution and signed off on by all the key stakeholders along with engineerings."See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Clarifying question: We are just interested in facebook's ad rev and not other meta products We are looking at the rev coming per year globally formula = (avg. ads shown per min on fb products) x (avg. time spent per user per day in mins) x (avg. rev that fb makes per view) x (DAU) x 365 assumption all kind of ads give the same rev per view to fb all kind of geographies give the same rev per view to fb avg. ads shown per min -> user can scroll upto 20 posts easily in a min, lets"See full answer

Ruth J. - "Provided an overview of IG Search and the value it provides for users Gave 3 metrics that I would consider when determining success Shared the metric that I would use as the north star Got a follow up question. If users were clicking on irrelevant results from their search would that affect your metrics and how would you deal with that Do you think it is a bad thing if users use search to search for something, get irrelevant results and perform an action based on that?"See full answer

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

Rev - "Clarify: Everything mentioned in the question (all devices and how to access them) Reasons why a subscriber might not be using? Forgot that he has a subscription Doesn't like the service and forgot to cancel the subscription Doesn't like service and planning to cancel in next cycle For all 3 cases we need to remind him/her about the service and encourage to use it Awareness - about the service via google nest notifications, smart refreigerator display, chromecats to cast youtube"See full answer

Sourabh M. - "First Contextual Questions: Opportunities & Threats for whom? Assuming for Google Maps only Approach: Google’s Vision & Mission > Where does Maps fit into that? Analysing use case that Google Maps serve? SWOT Analysis My View ## Google Vision & Mission: To organize world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful Google Maps Strategic Fit: _Google Maps provides organization of geographic information, allows users to change/add/delete c"See full answer

Shraddha P. - "Figured out the blockers Defined objective and goals to acheive Checked other app who have same flow What is the intention that company with which company wants to drive user as they mentioned it has to be order creation, order placement, successful payment, choose delivery and installation. Figured out the flow that user would want to have after each step. Aligned 4&5 and designed wireframes with the help of diagram.io tool which is purely free to use."See full answer