Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

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

AspiringNoogler - "Clarifications Shared laundry means there are a number of washers and dryers in a room, and anyone can pay to use those for one cycle Assuming minimal hardware changes to washers and dryers Goal: Improve customer satisfaction with the shared laundry experience Metric: Customer satisfaction score (TBD) Users: Customers Low volume (e.g. singles, young professionals etc.) (L, XL) Medium volume (e.g. families with children or elderly etc.) (XL, S) Large volume (e.g. re"See full answer

Ankita V. - "As a PM at google, If I found a glowing magic relic to accurately predict weather, I would like to explore its functions and properties to integrate with multiple google products such as weather, maps or even google home I would go and find out how this works- assume that this tennis ball sized aritfact is able to accurately predict weather forecast for next 30 days for all geaographies, inside and outside temperature and is quite accurate i would shorlist usecases where this could be made appl"See full answer

Madhu K. - "Clarifications Just so I understand the question, are you asking me design a mobile app to check the menu of a particular restaurant ? Yes Where will this app be available ? Global or US Only ? US only Are there any constraints that I have to keep in mind. In terms of money, time , resources etc ? No constraints Can i assume that the goal of the application is to enhance the dining experience of the customer ? By enhance I mean customer delight ? Yes Lastly,"See full answer

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

Sanket W. - "The following key metrics would be key indicators of success or failure. The number of vehicles onboarded on the platform with time since date of launch. Idle time of the onboarded vehicles Number of shares of each vehicle Duration of share with pricing in perspective to understand the profitability (Eg. If people are preferring hourly rental over daily or weekly rental then what are the revenue implications or vice versa) Customer feedback on the rented vehicles Analysis on ge"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