Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

Anonymous Tapir - "After clarifying the question, answered in following way: Defined what is Google Map. Discussed its history and dominant #1 current market position Aligned with the Google's mission Listed few users segments and few features for roadmap and discussed technology advancements & need to continue to innovate and differentiate aggressively"See full answer

RockyBalboa - "Clarifying question(s): what constitute a COVID related search? is it more on number of cases by geography, virus strains, vaccine information etc. ? Besides engagement is there anything we should take into account? Which personas are likely to be targeted: Journalists gathering more information for reporting Doctors and SMEs Common crowd with moderate to advanced education on health and safety measures and likely type of at-home entertainment Pharmaceuticals orga"See full answer

Madhur K. - "I have worked with ML when I was a PM for Customer Due Diligence and it required recalibration to improve the matching logic (for screening and Proof of business matching with Google) and threshold analysis. In this scenario we had to extract past True positive, False positive decisions from operations and run threshold analysis to come up with a new threshold to match better and remove the noise i.e. False positives. Taking this new threshold for matching, the ML algorithm is receiving feedback"See full answer

Bik D. - "Clarification: What does contextual search on Instgram do ? - It can help find the right profiles, content based on location easily based on user search Are we focused on anything specific ? - Nothing specific, but the goals is either activation or engagement Why is it important for Meta ? - Help user discover the right content quickly on Instagram thus helping them focus more time on engagement and less time searching Broad User Groups: Viewers (find the most"See full answer

Coach - "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"See full answer

Cameron P. - "Assuming I am a PM for company X and my current task for the morning is resolving a new conflicting product requirement. First I would like to inquire more about the product and about the conflict. Product: Assuming I am new and I didn’t already know what the product was, what is our product's value proposition to our customers? How does our product align with our company's goals? What does success look like for our product? Have we been successful in the past? Who are our customers? Conflict"See full answer

Sachin P. - "The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page. 1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"See full answer

Vinayak A. - "Let's start with understanding the objective. The assumed objective is to be able to optimize for ads revenue by showing optimal number of ads to users without reducing the user engagement metrics. So, the approach I would take here is to perform experimentation with certain set of customers cohort based on different parameters. The metrics I would keep track of Customers average user engagement - time per session before and after the experiment over a week. Number of ads shown per ses"See full answer

Utsav M. - "reduce lag time and latency. people joining at a given time for adoption."See full answer

Aidynn E. - "Let's start with clarifying question -> What do we want to achieve with increased engagement? Let's say Spotify has personalization that prefers more engaged songs/podcast to be available to new users (who have not heard that song). Along the same lines as Facebook/Linkedin/Instagram prefers posts. The more the song/podcast is engaged among users, for more people it will be visible to listen. What users we are targeting? There are 2 broad categories of users such as creators and listen"See full answer

Anu S. - "what is a task rabbit? marketplace connecting users with freelance labor with local demand, allowing consumers to find help with everyday tasks, including furniture assembly, moving, delivery, and handy person work Explain the User Flow in short: User logs in, searches for the services, sorts, picks and books the service the gig worker gets 24 hours to pick the request, accepted or declined In case it is accepted then it is considered a "BOOKed"gig what is the post booking experience? -"See full answer

Develop games G. - "asdsad"See full answer

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

Hl M. - "Clarifying Slack is a mature product in markets with millions of users B2B platform Expand customer base to school boards SWOT Technology is mature and well reputed Good privacy practices Threats Google school Microsoft learning education Zoom Journeys User Users for slack - for - school School boards 12 school boards Primary Secondary High Universities - Remote learning / Distant educations - Incumbents MooCs - Existing platform End Users: Students Teachers Administrators Ed"See full answer