Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

Soraya S. - "I started by saying I like to understand what problems are they trying to solve. Often customers are asking for the features without knowing the problem"See full answer

Avi P. - "Product management deals with new product development, enhancing existing products, monitoring the performance, planning, forecasting, monetization, pricing, product launch, and marketing of a product. Personally, I would like to improve many aspects of Product management. Try to understand the Product we are developing as much as possible. Brainstorm and think about long term goals and vision for product we are responsible for. Hypothesize the Product vision and value of the product for"See full answer

Gunjali D. - "Clarifying question: By podcast, we mean a series of digital audio generally available on the internet in the form of monologue or interview. Do we need to integrate it with Facebook or design a separate product? --> Separate Product not related to Facebook Mobile/web application --> Any Constraints? --> No Goal? --> To design a dedicated app to recommend podcasts in order to increase user satisfaction Users: Power Users: Who regularly listens to podcasts and keep detailed information on various"See full answer

Product V. - "\\\Start by saying thanks for the questions\\\ Apple maps is a utility product that allows users to navigate from point A to point B and find transit. It is exclusive to Apple devices Ask Clarifying QQ - What is the definition of the business owner - <500,000 USD in revenue per year Why you are targeting this segment - Apple maps can be a platform of choice for the business owners Why the current consumer version is not suitable - Not suitable to the needs of the SMB How do you define"See full answer

Joel A. - "Clarify: User experience improvements or revenue based improvements for the company? (Assumed UX) Can it be hardware or must it be software? (assumed I have the choice) Position: My favorite product is Airbnb. It's an app that let's people list their home for short term rental and then let's guests book those homes (or rooms) to stay in. It's used primarily for vacations but people all over the world now use it for business or even longer term stays. It's idea was pretty revolutionary a"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions Are we referring to the credit card users of a particular card company or the overall number of users? : Overall number And we are referring to the number of unique users right, as in a person may have more than 1 card? : yes Can I assume the time setting of the question to be 2024? : Yes Thanks. Here's how I would approach this. India's total population = 1.4 Bn I know for a fact that in India only 2.5% of population pays income tax. A salaried employee who doe"See full answer

Vivek A. - "It was an entire case study"See full answer

Alex C. - "I would have been destroyed on this."See full answer

Leena M. - "For a fully autonomous car, the car interior is the core of the customer experience since the customer focus is inside of car, not outside of the car. To make this experience superior, we need to consider the aspects that contribute to this- from the perspective of features and quality. Features would include (1) Seating: ample leg room, flexible seating, reclining; massage, heat on seats. (2)Storage: Cup holders- for hot/cold beverages, flexible tilt-able table top for laptop/Ipad display; (3)"See full answer

Fabio E. - "First I would like to ask you some clarifying questions. Timeframe: do we consider a single given day? YES What is the definition of jogger? Running, not walking Is there a minimum distance? NO Do you count only the distance within the perimeter of central park or also the miles getting in and out of CP to my start location? ONLY CP Great, I would like to structure the problem this way. \# of aggregated miles run by jogger in a day in CP = # of joggers per day * av"See full answer

Kong - "App design experience which involved a new technology"See full answer

Michael N. - "The pain points articulated (no contextual recs, isolating experience, etc.) are pain points in the broader audio listening industry - there's no existing audio product at Meta already and assuming this is a net new product, wouldn't it have made more sense to have pain points specific to Meta? E.g. "there's no sense of real-time community in FB Groups" or "the barrier to engage in FB groups feels high" It almost feels like she just regurgitated things she's learned from her time working on Alex"See full answer

Michelle B. - "I would analise it in some macro and micro aspects and then evaluate those, and think abou an release strategy. First considering the macro aspects that are: what is the main business goal and is the product addressing it? what is the user value and how the product is working towards this? And by last, what is the success metric, and how likely the product as it is, is in the way of accomplish it? Then, if those macro aspects are on track, I would go for a second round of analysis, to ev"See full answer

Shankhadip M. - "My least favorite product is a desktop software solution called Marg, which is used frequently at our family business. Its an inventory, bookkeeping, and accounting software for small businesses in India and integrates with the official government tax portal. The general journey to accomplish any task, say adding a new product type, is very unintuitive and requires someone to be hands-on and familiar with the product to actually do this. Getting there is pure hit and trial. Like most desktop sof"See full answer

Pramod V. - "I would like to ask questions to the interviewer as to if the company or I as TPM have any success history handling this magnitude. Also, I will talk on my behalf to justify my experience and caliber to drive this magnitude of project to success. But, I always follow a flow-chart approach when meeting exec management where I do my home work studying the current state of the project/ pain points/ issues/ blockers and steps we have taken or planning to take next to mitigate it. Now w.r.t the flow"See full answer

Priyanka C. - "Firstly need to check is this service really beneficial or not. And video service provide more realistic perspective about the product so keep it"See full answer

Anonymous Cricket - "Clarify can we limit traffic to normal commute time for people going to work in their city? Not include business travel? (Recognize traffic can mean: pick up drop off kids; errands, grocery, shopping, social, people who drive for their job etc.) limit to US? pre-covid time? Equation \# of working people in US x # of hours commute per year per person \# of working people in US 320M total population, 40M per age group of 10 years working age = 20 to 70, 5 groups of 1"See full answer