Product Manager Interview Questions

Anonymous Panda - "Goal: To design a product that helps people keep track of their belongings and prevent loss. Identifying users: Individuals who frequently lose their belongings Parents who want to keep track of their children's belongings Tourists who want to secure their belongings while travelling Selecting the right user:Given Google's expertise in technology, we will focus on designing a product for individuals who frequently lose their belongings. Defining features and prioritizing: Item tracki"See full answer

Nature - "I would be oil. As oil would float and can be moulded according to the sourrounding."See full answer

Akshay R. - "Let's start by describing a time machine, which is a device that allows somebody to move backwards or forwards in time. The movement could be physical movement, wherein the user gets physically transported to a different timeline, or it could be getting a glimpse into a different timeline, like wearing a VR headset and getting to experience a different timeline without physically being there. For the purpose of this exercise, I will assume, this time machine allows a person to physically trans"See full answer

Bhagya D. - "Situation: Narrated about a time when the decision favored the most important customer, but appeared to be at the cost of diluting my own company's brand value. Context: Provided additional context around why the ask from the customer is very critical for the customer. And why my leadership wasn't ready to jump on the gun as it was cannibalistic to our brand value. Response: I used data to explain why it is not going to be a big blow to our brand value. Used a counter metric to show that we h"See full answer

Inraathp R. - "Clarify : "Movie watching” can happen in a Theatre On a cable TV via an OTT app, A dedicated home-theatre set-up. I will focus on OTT streaming on a Smart-TV because: It is the fastest-growing surface (70 % of long-form streaming minutes). Geography: USA Platform : Any (Android TV, Tizen etc) OTT: Netflix What are we trying to improve ? Basic Journey -->Switch on TV->Navigate to OTT->Find Movie->Play Movie->Consume Audio and Video Setup Journey -> Create account -> Setu"See full answer

Shuvam C. - "Introduce special tickets which will cover a bundle of rides. This will distribute the load over the remaining rides and reduce the queue for the particular ride as all the people will no longer try to avail the same ride simultaneously."See full answer

Exponent - "This is another Strategy question, which means finding good reasons for strategic decisions. A few reasons for the GitHub acquisition are listed here. Competition > With the GitHub acquisition comes a lot of data on which companies are getting huge, or which technologies are cutting edge. Microsoft can adopt these technologies faster than others by having a pulse on this. It's also a defensive acquisition, since GitHub belonging to Microsoft means it can't be bought by Facebook or Google"See full answer

Ayush kumar S. - "I submitted a PRD as it was a take home assignment."See full answer

Pilla P. - "While managing a budget the most ways we get out more is time and resource"See full answer

Anonymous Cat - "Slack -- it keeps all of my team's communications nicely organized, it let's us easily go back to previous messages. It makes interactions more casual with our team, which I think creates a more collaborative culture, especially since we all work remotely."See full answer

Varun J. - "Feel free to download the full assignment (with screens) here: https://www.varunja.in/blog/assignment, cheers! Expected Outcome: Users: What do you know about the users of WhatsApp? What do they want? Features: What features will you build? Prioritization: What will be in your MVP and what will be in your 2.0 version? After you have decided on the MVP: Engineering: How hard is this to build? How long might it take? Are there ways to build a solution more quicker? Design: How does your new fea"See full answer