Product Manager Behavioral Interview Questions

onering2ruleall - "My leadership style is flexible and adaptive, it varies depending on the team members and the needs of the company. My leadership goal is to empower the team and inspire and grow leaders. In order to achieve that, I combine transformational, democratic and coaching leadership styles. Usually when we are facing a new type of challenge, or at the early stage of a project, I like to adapt the transformational leadership which allows me to listen to all the suggestions from the team members and sta"See full answer

John F. - "While working as a consultant, I was assigned to a project to design and build a solution for accessing and managing documents on deepwater drilling wells with limited connectivity. I and the developer assigned to the project conducted interviews with various engineers and team members on the rigs. We worked with the client's IT group to analyze options for getting content to and from the rig. Together, we came up with a solution that would leverage their existing SharePoint infrastructure (avai"See full answer

RestlessMonk - "My style of inspiring / discovery sessions / brainstorming / execution guidance / upskiling the team has always been Outcome driven. Outcomes always took the central focus of our efforts, and hence easier prioritisation and a clarity on why a decision failed or succeeded. I take personal responsibility to help the teams to define outcomes if it is a complicated charter and for most help them fine tune the outcomes to keep them simple, progressive and aspirational."See full answer

Jonah S. - "Imagine you're playing with a big box of colorful building blocks. You know how sometimes you want to build a tall tower, and other times you want to make a cool car or a cozy house? Well, a product manager is like the person who helps decide what kind of things we should build with those blocks. They talk to all your friends and ask, "Hey, what would be the most fun to make with these blocks?" Then they tell the builders what to do, like which blocks to use and how to put them together. And g"See full answer

Coach - "Great question, give me a moment to collect my thoughts…. When faced with a situation where a product defect is impacting my customers as a product manager my goal would be to roll out a quick & effective enough solution that minimizes the negative impact on users. I would seek available incident information to understand, its blast radius i.e. the impacted users, platforms, duration, if available understand the nature of failure i.e. recoverable vs not, it's root cause and short/long t"See full answer

Googlepm 1. - "Getting things done. Since the job is all about leading without authority, it is important to always have the north star in mind. When all in the team do not agree or see a potential solution: Data based evidence : Provide testing results/ Analysis results/ PoC on showing why a potential solution might be better than others, Bring in a trusted stakeholder : Have a conversation with the trusted stakeholder who first believes in the solution, then vouches for the solution to the team "See full answer

Tarun K. - "I would very confidently say - Never. Did I failed with a Product? - Yes. Did I launch a product that was sub-par? - Yes. Did I failed to launch a product? - Never. Also, I don't see it as part of growing up as PM to Fail to launch a Product. I think it's a tricky quesion, better to be avoided."See full answer

Anastasiia V. - "First, I would operationalize the term "slip" by asking: What’s slipping — delivery, scope, quality, or decision-making? Second, I would ask the following questions that help me shape the possible causes for the "slip": What is important for us in this project delivery: time/quality/scope? What is the priory of this project? Is it urgent? Do we have a strict customer or other stakeholder commitment? Is it a big project that involves multiple teams or is only one team involved"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "I responded how capital one wants to help everyone have access to banking and change banking for the better for all. (Tying it to their mission statement) Leaned into this saying how I personally want to use my use my skills to help increase awareness to financial health for the community and serve the community that im a part of."See full answer

Alemayehu m G. - "I would try to understand their perspective, focus on the issue, find common ground, brainstorm solutions, and agree on a course of action."See full answer

Graig - "Yes to peer manager from stackholder team the problem was every time she wanted say something she used to have three way connect with me and my manager"See full answer

Rishi P. - "Facebook's mission is to bring people closer. And sports is common language connecting people across the world. The joy of enjoying watching sports is with friends who also support the same team, cheer for them and trade facts about them. The product I would build is a live interactive sports app that a group of friends, though they are apart physically, can join into, chat and share happiness. The interactive sports app will stream live sports and allow users to create a community or group"See full answer

Amparo L. - "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."See full answer

Kirit K. - "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."See full answer