Product Manager Interview Questions

Joohi M. - "Assume that US and Japan are exactly opposite to each other. If a flight takes 18 hrs to travel between US and Japan and it moves at approx 600km/hr, then the distance covered is 10,800 Km. This constitutes the semi arc of the circle, so we will double is to calculate full circumference which will be 21,600 km."See full answer

Sid S. - "Clarifying questions: What are the needs of the user ? What kind of changes were made that is expected to sync? Can you describe the calendar app for me? Is it a mobile app or web? To better understand the UI for solutioning Can we define "recently" - Is it in mins or days? Do we know the reasons for the sync issue yet? Can we supposed to expose the issue to the front end? Define the basic user story structure User personaAction expected Job to be achieved Would brea"See full answer

Pragya S. - "What is Slack ? Slack is a basic instant messaging app usually used in the intra office space , allowing teams to communicate .Also , it includes video & voice calls . In a nutshell , it provides an efficient team communications solutions . 2 Goals of Google/ Position in the market ? To create innovative solutions to customer problems . The focus is on providing accessible information to everyone . 3 Synergy of such a product with google : Slack allows efficient team communication ."See full answer

Ramesh Y. - "Clarifications: Is it passenger/cargo/defense Answer: Passenger Is it direct or stops included - Direct Last I read London had 80 M passengers annually Per month - 6.7 M Per Day - 220 K Assumption here - London is a hub and it has flights to all continents. Assumptions are the split below Flights to Europe -- 30% Flights to USA -- 20% Flights to Asia -- 30% Flights to Africa -- 10% Flights to Australia -- 10% Dubai is part of Asia - 30% of 220 K is 66K Within Asia - Passeng"See full answer

Emily T. - "Solution picked: a half software half hardware remote control"See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Diagnosis problem. To answer this question, we suggest you use our framework (along with the TROPIC method) to be as thorough as possible. The framework is as follows: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather Context (TROPIC)Time Region Other features / products (internal) Platform Industry / Competition Cannibalization Establish a theory of probable cause Test theories Propose solutions Summarize "See full answer

Bhargava Y. - "Clarifying questions Scope this down to borrowing and lending within US Scope this down to just money and not other assets (crypto, gold etc.) Scope this down to Facebook/Instagram app and not website etc. Is this peer to peer lending? Or lending from financial institutions etc.? (Scope to peer to peer lending as that connects more with the mission). Lending for small business needs, etc. are scoped out for simplicity **Mission Statement and how it is connected to this product ide"See full answer

Swetha C. - "Situation: As a product manager I used to manage more than 10+ products in my product portfolio that are completely internal facing. During Quarterly Business reviews one of our customer was doing a walk through of their business flow - how they use all my products and gather the data they need from them and do connection of the data (Downloading the data from every product individually and connecting the data from one product to another). It made we realize that this is very time consumi"See full answer

Agni W. - "Interesting questions. Thank you for asking it. S: Suppose I want to add notifications service to an app that provides user directed content, that is is dependent on user's past preferences T: if you ask me for a prototype, then I would use API gateway/ LB, Lambda, storage in SQL and No SQL both, have caches. later we could use CDN, have EC2 instances to run the app. We could deploy Kafka pipeline also. Create notification service on the existing app. - that will be a micro service A: Since"See full answer

Exponent - "This question is a Diagnosis Question. Let's follow the template for answering Diagnosis Questions: Ask clarifying questions List potential high level reasons Gather context (with TROPIC method!) Establish a theory of probably cause Test theories Give a potential solution Summarize Ask Clarifying Questions Before we begin, it's important to ask clarifying questions if necessary. This question is quite straight forward so we may not have ma"See full answer

Exponent - "This is a Measure Success question with a slight twist. The twist here is we need to consider a hypothetical product rather that one already built. This changes our formula slightly - specifically we may not be able to apply a UX flow to drive analysis since we're unsure of the implementation. Instead, we'll look at core behaviors that are indicative of success. Here's the modified formula: Ask clarifying questions State the goal of the feature **Apply a UX flow to drive a"See full answer