Product Manager Interview Questions

Karthik M. - "1. Step 1: clarify Let's establish the mission of Google and Youtube. Google's is to provide and make information more accessible. Youtube's might be to help people get their content, their word and themselves out into the world. I mean so many of Youtube's ads have been about how the diversity of individuals and their content, so that makes sense. Let's establish what is Youtube. Youtube has 3 primary stakeholders - creators, viewers and brands/corporations and within them"See full answer

Anonymous I. - "Great question, first some clarifying questions: I assume that we're talking about meta disrupting the travel industry? Or generally When we say travel industry, this could include modes of transportation, scheduling transportation, what to do when you're there etc.? Are we focused on business travel? Leisure travel? I'm going to assume for the sake of scoping down that we're going to be focused on Leisure travel because business does not have as much pain, and on the flip-side o"See full answer

R S. - "My main task was to improve our recommendation system. I worked closely with the business and data teams to understand how recommendations were made in the past. After discussions, I found out that the system had fixed recommendations and didn't consider customer preferences. Our goal was to identify potential customers better, boost conversion rates with personalized recommendations, and increase cross-selling of products. After analyzing a lot of data, we focused on customers with accounts an"See full answer

Ankit M. - "Interviewer: Design a Meta Product for space travel. Me: I would first likely ask a few clarifying questions. Can we discuss more about what do we mean by a product for space travel? Is it like a physical product or a software product? Any existing suite of products that we want to integrate this into? Interviewer: It can be a digital platform – a combination of software and services, integrated in a single ecosystem. It's not a physical product like a spacecraft, but rather a pla"See full answer

Vivek S. - "Candidate [Clarifying Question 1] - Does success metric needs to be discussed across any particular stage of user life cycle - Growth , Engagement or Monetisation ? Interviewer - Let's focus on overall health metrics of the product. Candidate[Clarifying Question 2] : Does the metrics needs to be presented as an update to CXO in quarterly meetings or monthly meetings or it needs to be presented internally to product / marketing team for detailed analysis ? Interviewer - Let's sa"See full answer

Kay T. - "How I would approach this question: Understand the goal of the customer service platform: What is the main business goal of this company and how is the customer service platform serving the company goals? For this question, I'm assuming the user journey is that customers come to the customer service platform when they run into issues. Thus, ultimately the customer service platform is feeding into the top line business metric of customer retention. Do customers keep"See full answer

Zafeer R. - "I was owning a very ambitious company-wide project of standardizing and modernizing the UI and UX of the platform. It was in development for a few years and eventually turned out to be a failure for the product. I term this as my biggest failure as a product manager. So I worked for a company which had a suite of products. Each product had a different UX and UI. This resulted in nonuniformity across the suite and caused usability issues for our suite users. The idea was to have a standard exper"See full answer

Ankit M. - "Me: I would first like to ask a few clarifying questions : Is this tipping issue confined to specific regions? Is this a new problem, or has it always been present? Does this issue affect all types of rides offered by Lyft? Is there a correlation between driver ratings and the likelihood of being tipped? Interviewer: The problem is widespread across all regions where Lyft operates. It's not new but has been consistent over time. The lower tipping rate is uniform across all ride types, i"See full answer

Karthik T. - "Our application has millions of users and significant load on file upload feature. Situation : In our legacy application we had a particular page which was accepting file uploads and it had the legacy way of selecting file uploads and page would redirect you to the next page or show an error message on failure. Task : I had regular calls with the customer who had reported issue multiple times on this application area. In my calls my I also understood that client was expecting some inno"See full answer

Sam E. - "average price per transaction would drop because we might not be considering currency exchange rates, which is much lower in India and Southeast Asia, when aggregating data globally. to define success, i'll first segment the data, separating existing markets to newer ones to check if that is the cause of the dropping average price. then i'll select a north star metric, which would be the number of completed transactions vs. attempted. i'll also track supporting metrics like usage frequency and"See full answer

anush - "@Jacob, your videos are really good and helpful. I want to know about the tool, you use for explaining the design in the videos."See full answer

Anjali V. - "I feel this is more about "Describe a time when I failed or struggled" rather than "Project Failure"."See full answer

Ram - "Clarification Are we focusing on building the product on a specific Meta platform (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp), or is this a standalone effort? Is the product digital or physical? Are we targeting internal (employees) or external (customers) users? Are there any specific constraints like funding, resourcing, or geography? 1. Narrowing Down the Problem Awareness and Education: Create tools to increase understanding of climate change and its effects. -"See full answer

A B. - "Great explanation on each of the components and their use. During the interview would a PM candidate be expected to go in-depth for capacity estimation (e.g. storage estimation, bandwidth estimation etc.?)"See full answer

Kari J. - "I got this question in my Mini-Case today. I was a little confused because even though I asked a few clarifying questions -- it didn't clarify much! :-) My response was to what was shown on screen -- a mock of the current process (five modal windows) and a mock of a new single modal. THe ask for this was what do you like and dislike in the mock for the new. I will admit that it would have been easy to say what was wrong with the current process - but since the ask was for the new mock, and"See full answer

Urvashi G. - "YT threats →. Let's define threat - activities that reduce actual or growth rate for user base / watch time / $ User - what impacts user base, users’ watch time (why would users not use YT anymore?) Competition - all apps that compete for users' time spent on digital entertainment (VOD, social media apps like tiktok, vMVPDs) Safety, trust, privacy, digital well being No relevant content Distribution - platform bans, distribution deals falling through (eg smart TVs)"See full answer

Mehul K. - "Clarifying Questions Are we building feature for YouTube Music/YouTube Video? -> YT Video has higher scope of user engagement so YT Video. YT Video has 2 forms of video content, are we focusing on long form, short form or am I free to chose ? -> YT Shorts and short videos have taken off lately so focus on it. Do we have a specific business goal with regards to building this feature ? -> We want to improve engagement. Do we want to build this feature for a specific kind of audience or"See full answer