Interview Questions

Imran R. - "What are some of the Tradeoff stories Amazon prefers? Do they prefer the Feature Prioritization type of tradeoff or technology/platform type of tradeoffs? "See full answer

Ash I. - "Refer https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/good-product-managers-great-shreyas-doshi/"See full answer

Jaime A. - "I might be missing something but the solution, seems to be incorrect. ... , post_pairings AS ( SELECT ps.user_id, ps.postseqid AS failpostid, ps.postseqid + 1 AS nextpostid FROM post_seq AS ps WHERE ps.issuccessfulpost IS TRUE ) -- here ps.issuccessfulpost IS TRUE the condition should be FALSE -- in that way ps.postseqid is the actual failed post(failpostid) -- Additionally, at the end the join is assumming that the sequence id is going to match the post_id, wh"See full answer

Adhitya G. - "Clarifying Questions: Product → It is a online Professional Services platforms where jobs are made much easier for both recruiters and for job-seekers Goal → Increase Number of Users/ Any other Business Goal? Mission → It is to make job-posting/seeking completely hassle free and accessible to everyone. Do we have any timeframe to do this and is there any growth rate that I should be targeting? - 5x in 5 years Students → Are we focusing on Full-time or Part-time students? Any"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - " To start, I'm going to make sure I understand the product correctly and also define what specific business metric we're trying to improve. Second, I will focus on defining the target user for which we want to improve the product and brainstorm what additional user problems we could solve. And third, I will generate solutions for these problems, prioritize them, and make a recommendation." First I want to understand if this product will aim to help me find the pet I want, or help me discover wh"See full answer

Sandeep Y. - "Functional requirement's: partial search while searching for users, products any keywords in the search. additional keywords in the filter Black listed words in the search. Non functional requirements: low latency, search through 2 Billion records recent search should be cached. Design: high reads, we should have caching enabled over the primary db storages. caching cluster can be added when the search load increases. read ahead. - check in cache (periodic cache refresh), lfu, lru "See full answer

G. D. - "It's possible the Onboarding Flow is fine as it is - but I would do some initial hands-on exploring. I would go through the boarding steps myself. Re-Visit the flow with a clean perspective. Take notes on Pros & Cons. Things I liked. Things I didn't like. Create a table. Brainstrorm some UI / UX / Flow features that could use some improvement. If my simple analysis warranted some more exploration - I would do an informal survey with my immediate internal colleagues - and possibly even my tight"See full answer

Kartikeya N. - "Clarifying questions By mutual follows, we mean that both of them follow each other on Tiktok, correct? : Yes We want to know an average number for the same, ie mean and not median or any other value, right? : Yes Shall we consider the global audience or that of a particular country? : Global Can we assume the time setting of this question as of 2025?: yes Here’s how I will tackle this question. > We will first estimate the total number of Tiktok users. Then we will try to"See full answer

Aidynn E. - "Let's start with clarifying question -> What do we want to achieve with increased engagement? Let's say Spotify has personalization that prefers more engaged songs/podcast to be available to new users (who have not heard that song). Along the same lines as Facebook/Linkedin/Instagram prefers posts. The more the song/podcast is engaged among users, for more people it will be visible to listen. What users we are targeting? There are 2 broad categories of users such as creators and listen"See full answer

James W. - "Conflict is unavoidable for any project. The most important part of moving past conflict is to understand why it manifested in the first place. I would start by understanding: What type of conflict is it? 1 on 1, with another team, with another function? What shape it? Is it about communication, strategy, implementation, style? What impact does it have? Will it affect our timelines, how we work together, etc How do I feel about it? Is it a thorn in my side or something"See full answer

Garima B. - "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"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

Ali H. - "SQL databases are relational, NoSQL databases are non-relational. SQL databases use structured query language and have a predefined schema. NoSQL databases have dynamic schemas for unstructured data. SQL databases are vertically scalable, while NoSQL databases are horizontally scalable."See full answer

Niaz - "Assumption about the teleportation machine: Teleportation is instantaneous like Star Trek The product does not take too much space maybe 6 ft by 6 ft and 10ft high is good enough Teleportation works vertically both above ground and underground as well as going 100 meters horizontally If possible you can combine multiple teleportation machine to repeat teleportation Users groups A product like this can be leveraged for almost everyone but I think I want to focus on users who ha"See full answer