Product Manager Execution Interview Questions

Aimable - "Clarifying question: Is there a goal that we have in mind? Fb mission: empower people to create community and bring the world closer together IG shops as I understand are the marketplace on IG, where users can view items listed for sale by creators/businesses and also search for specific items or categories. Users can actually buy through shops instead of getting navigated to the original business website. IG shop goals: Businesses continue to face the challenges of selling onli"See full answer

Shashi R. - "How do you define Retention? Let’s assume a user comes back tomorrow and scroll for a 10s or so Do we mean to improve the daily retention or weekly/monthly retention? Take a call I think we should look at the weekly retention as checking LinkedIn daily could be a cumbersome task for some and daily retention data may have frequent fluctuations due to several reasons such as professionals are too busy to check LinkedIn on a daily basis Has retention dropped recently, or do we just need to"See full answer

Danyal R. - "Clarify the Issue: Begin by asking for more context about the specific issue they're referring to. This demonstrates your ability to gather information and make sure you have a clear understanding of the problem at hand. Assumption: biggest issue is decrease in north start metric: # of bookings Prioritize and Define Goals: Once you have a clear understanding of the issue, outline the goals you'd like to achieve in solving it. Increasing booking conversions, reducing friction in the bo"See full answer

Niji R. - "General Approach: In a funnel, prospects that dropped off at the very end just before conversion are the ones that were most likely to convert simply because they went through the effort of going through multiple steps to advance to the very end of the funnel. The more the prospects advances through the funnel, better their probability of converting. I'd therefore focus more on reducing drop-offs at the final stages of the funnel for better conversion. Caveats: There are certain use-cases where"See full answer

Roy C. - "Note: This is my answer that I generated loosely while I was practicing this question. I didnt want to go down the product design framework as this is more of an execution question, so I came up with my own zombified framework to focus more on strategy + execution. Open to feedback on my answer - understand its not the most perfect! Question: How would I launch a digital library product as a Google PM Clarifications: Standalone product? : standalone Region specific: No (up to me) Goa"See full answer

Simran M. - "Clarifications: Netflix is a streaming service and homepage serves the first entry point after a user has been logged in to their respective profile. Homepage helps users find a relevant content for them to watch, among other features like "Continue watching" or games. Mission: Netflix's mission is to entertain the world. Goal: As a PM of homepage, the goal of the feature is to let the users find relevant content of their interest. This feature ties to the mission in a way that lets the user"See full answer

Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers! Expected Outcome: Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want? Features: What features will you build? Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version? After you have decided on the MVP: Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more"See full answer

Jack F. - "conduct direct user research through methods such as interviews, surveys, and focus groups to gather qualitative insights into user preferences, pain points, and behaviors. Additionally, I analyze quantitative data from sources like user analytics, feedback metrics, and market research to identify trends and patterns. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, including customers, internal teams, and subject matter experts, further enriches the requirements gathering process by incorporating diver"See full answer

Nishant V. - "Clarify: Across all platforms? - Yes Specific geographies? - No Any specific users? Like >60 years - No Benefits of profile picture: User can find their friends by identifying them through profile picture. Helps in understanding if the profile is genuine. Also establishes trust in the platform. Users checking profiles is also a way for users to engage on the platform. Possible decisions: Remove profile upload feature Make it optional No change Approach to make decis"See full answer

Rishi P. - "Optimizing Booking.com to improve conversion rates involves a strategic and holistic approach that considers various aspects of the user experience, website functionality, and marketing. Here are several strategies that could be employed: \\User-Centric Design:\\ \\Mobile Optimization:\\ Ensure the website is fully optimized for mobile devices, given the increasing number of users booking on smartphones. \\Intuitive Navigation:\\ Streamline the booking process with a cl"See full answer

pmpractice - "I would structure my answer in the following way: What's the situational context? Mission of Uber Making transportation easy by creating a platform for connecting drivers and riders Key market trends: In top tier cities there are players in the food delivery market and the size of the pie is growing fast What would feed into the decision-making? The new platform should be able to connect customers and restaurants. The key things needed to make this platform success"See full answer

Freddie - "a) What metric should be focused on for improving customer value creation, and why? I may the metric is user engagement. We can dive into groups of users, and the newbies' actions will not be the same as the old hands. The engaging frequency and time must be defined and tracked because it shows whether users (as a workspace) are accustomed to Clickup or not. b) Share the potential feature points that can improve the above metric, explain your rationale for each and the expected"See full answer

Adegnika O. - "It was a Finetech product to help people remove credit card limited balance issue. The product is design especially for business man who usually use they credit card to make purchase or big transaction. Problem Credit card have a limit amont of money they can support. it is very difficult to handle situation where people want to make a transaction that goes beyond their supported credit card balance. Having many credit card is not easy to manage and go to trip with a huge amont of money i"See full answer

Grishma W. - "The three most important goals as a PM for Insta stories: Usage, Visibility & Reach"See full answer