Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

Sim S. - "Started with user-groups to identify the differences world wide: speed of internet, how high end devices are The interviewer just wanted to dive into the questions of latency & the technical fast. I then said let's separate out server vs client. On server side, cannot have australian users hitting california servers for data. So must be some sort of global availability of caching. And ensure rapid read out of that cache so something like a redis solution would help. Then switch gears to cli"See full answer

Ragupathy V. - "Started with clarifications, listed out assumptions, created stories with user pain points in existing business, how we can eliminate in our design and strategy, metrics for the success of business initial 90 days, 6 months and a year. What i missed to present is the north star metrics Overall i thought i did well, still didnt get through Hope it will help me for other interviews in Amazon/Meta/Cisco"See full answer

Riku H. - "This is basically "how you would measure success of X" type of question, and tweaked in particular to the first 6 months which is targeted towards seller acquisition in the lifecycle. Framework: List goals of the peer to peer car rental product from Grab and tie it to the mission of the company. If I am not mistaken the mission of Grab is similar to Uber - get people or anything anywhere, and have drivers earn their way List out users and their actions - in this case an individual who is i"See full answer

Indranil G. - "German autobahns are the highways and not city rode. We need to break down the issue into multiple stages. Let's say for the first stage we need to identify the road density. oad density is a very rough guess. Break down the problem further into city road density and non-city road density, and estimating the rough land mass of both. We came to 1km road / square km in non-cities road density , 3.4 million square miles of non-city, that bring us total (3.4 million *1)km - 3400,000 km of road we"See full answer

Anonymous Angelfish - "Not at all impressed. Very simple problem he is solved"See full answer

Anna H. - "Clarifying questions: How can we define a transaction? incoming /outcoming funds? A successful outcoming transaction as a wire transfer and requested by the payer or account holder. New users/ existing users? both Which platform for transaction requests? mobile/ desktop? both Are transactions direct from payer to beneficiary through a third-party such as banking/ financial services? yes Are there any bounds to time/resource constraint for transactions? E.g. internal, domestic or in"See full answer

Indranil G. - "The first clarification question which I will ask that if there is any goal. Specific objective? Is there any key result here targeting for? Let's assume the answer is no. Then will look for creating the overall vision of apple music. I will ask to understand if there is any geographic area considered for this improvement and if there is any customer segment this improvement is targetted for. So we do not have such parameters. Now let's talk to the customers and see what we hear from them. "See full answer

Pankhuri T. - "Clarifying Questions Is my understanding correct when I say that pandemic is something which is a widespread of an infectious disease over a whole country or globally? (Interviewer confirms) what do you mean by simplifying here? Are we talking about interviewee going from location A to location B? or after reaching the building from the door to the interviewer? or the interview experience itself? or is it upto me to explore? (Interviewer mentions that it is upto you to explore) Are we"See full answer

Jeff M. - "At Evernote and Wise, I've created a personalized approach for working more efficiently I've taught to coworkers with either our own proprietary software and off the shelf software. With Evernote, I did this by creating a hyper personalized templates for responding to customer concerns. With Wise, it's been a reworking of their traditional way of approaching Due Diligence and use of resources"See full answer

Mark B. - "Questions and Clarifications: Monitoring can mean a few things- Location, vital signs, fluids did you have something in mind or should I pick? -> You should pick Should I assume I am acting as google or a startup -> You pick -> well google has a mission to organize the world's data, and well being data may play well with either the google health or google home systems. I will act as google I am going to initially focus on the US market, as other markets may have different cultural expectatio"See full answer

Jenny L. - "I would target any demographic where their natural sense of "smell" is diminished or no longer available (consumer). I would also target commercial market opportunities in the food and cosmetics (specifically fragrance)."See full answer

Kiley S. - "Measure Success of FB rooms. First I would like to clarify my understanding of the product: FB Rooms is a video call product similar to zoom in which a user can create a room and then invite people to join either with Facebook, if they are already friends or with a link or invite. Able to use filters and virtual backgrounds Now that we have aligned on the understanding of the product, I would like to think about the goals for the product. Goals: Business goals: Rooms was FB’s"See full answer

Shashikant A. - "I followed STAR format"See full answer