Interview Questions

S P. - "I was working for an Insurance company and I was the lead PM responsible for delivering HIPAA 5010 835 (statement of bill claims received vs paid) transactions to healthcare providers/hospitals For this initiative as a PM, I was responsible to create and prioritize features around file creation. I collaborated with cross-functional teams, engineers, DevOps. First I conducted sessions with claims adjudication, SFTP file transfer, security, and privacy, clearinghouse, third-party vendors and ensu"See full answer

Chloe E. - "Here’s my general framework/formula/structure: Clarify - What do I need to know to make the question/prompt a little less ambiguous? What assumptions do I need to establish with the interviewer? Example: I would probably ask - Are we focused on professional/gig musicians who do music for a living? Or casual hobbyist musicians who make music for fun? Or I may want to know if I should focus on building on to a current Meta product like Instagram/FB Reels or think independently of th"See full answer

John F. - "Around mid-2023, I was tasked with investigating the feasibility of selling access to our site to third-party vendors who wanted to use bots to automate processes for their clients. Some initial work had been done on this but it was very high-level and very little data or analysis had actually been done. When I was tasked with this the idea was to sell access to a special header that would allow vendors to by-pass our F5 Shape implementation, a bot defense tool. From a business and security pers"See full answer

realkimchi - "Define: What is the Verified Badge Product? The Meta verified badge is a product displayed alongside a verified user’s profile across all Meta platforms. Mission: Why Build the Verified Badge Product? Trust and Authenticity: Meta's primary reason for introducing a Verified Badge is to enhance trust and authenticity across the platform. By confirming the identities of key figures and influencers, Meta can assure users that their interactions are with genuine profiles, no"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

Vivek S. - "This question can be answered in two different ways: a. Strategic b. Product Sense Since , the question is which product you would work upon , it is likely a product strategy question , where interviewer is trying to find about how would you go about selecting the product to solve for. Another approach would be to clarify on the two approaches from the Interviewer. Can ask your hierarchy in PM role [ APM/PM/ Sr. PM / GPM ] and then approach this. Candidate : Do you have any specific goal"See full answer

Malay K. - "For any project based questions, it is important to structure your response clearly, showcasing your thought process, technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and how your work added value. Besides the STAR method, you can also use this kind of framework: 1. Start by selecting a relevant project (related to the role) Give the project background and what specific problem it solved. 2. Align the project's objective and your role Be specific about your role: were you the le"See full answer

Kapil P. - "Sounds like both the features requests address different problems, although it should be clarified in my opinion. I'd try to dig deep into why the customers are raising the requests to uncover the pain points. Questions like the following would help: "How are you currently solving it?" "What does it mean for you in terms of Cost or productivity?" (based on the context of the product) "Have you searched for an alternative?" Descriptive answers for the above questions should tell us if the"See full answer

Sravanthi M. - "public static boolean isPalindrome(String str){ boolean flag = true; int len = str.length()-1; int j = len; for(int i=0;i<=len/2;i++){ if(str.charAt(i)!=str.charAt(j--)){ flag = false; break; } } return flag; }"See full answer

Shuly A. - "Clarifying questions: How the hiring funnel looks like, where are the main drop offs, what are the longest phases, what systems we have in place for reminders and notifications. What should be the goal (double conversion, reduce time to hire) Offered some solutions, analysed them according to ICE framework, highlighter risks linked to solution. The last question was to pitch my suggested path to management."See full answer

Bajrangi C. - "As a Technical Program Manager at Amazon, I typically coordinate cross-functional teams to drive technical project execution, ensuring timelines and deliverables align with business goals. My day involves managing stakeholders, resolving blockers, and continuously optimizing processes for scale."See full answer

Rahul J. - "Constraints: 4-direction moves; no mode switching (pick exactly one of {1=bicycle, 2=bike, 3=car, 4=bus} for the full trip). Per-mode search: If a mode’s per-step time/cost are uniform, run BFS on allowed cells. Then totaltime = steps × timeperstep, tie-break by steps × costper_step. If time/cost vary by cell (given matrices), run Dijkstra per mode minimizing (totaltime, totalcost) lexicographically. Maintain the best ⟨time, cost⟩ per cell; relax when the new pair is strictly better. S"See full answer

Shiva P. - "When customer is not worried about quality but only worried about delivery"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "Clarifying question: why would Google consider sunsetting Gmail? Is there an opportunity to make a case against sunsetting or has the executive decision already been made and we're truly looking for a flawless sunset? If decision has already been made - why? Is this a global decision or country-specific? If the answer from interviewer is that the decision is open to debate, pivot case toward identifying the problem that causes leadership to even consider sunset. Then analyze and propose ways to"See full answer

D J. - "Clarifying Questions & Assumptions: Blue collar :relating to manual work or workers, particularly in industry, they usually dont have college degree Linkedin: a social network that focuses on professional networking and career development. Why is linkedin expanding to blue collar workers? Ans: to expand new market as they have great untapped potential Do you want anew app or integrate it with Linkedin? Ans: you decide I would like to look more into the problem space before deciding on tha"See full answer

Alice S. - "Clarify the problem. Ask lots of questions to uncover the root cause of the problem. This could be related to internal factors like releasing buggy updates or external factors like market trends, infrastructure, regulation etc etc. Establish where in the user journey the problem might be happening, if it's happening for a subset of users or for everyone e.g. on iOS platform etc etc, what time period has the problem occurred? Gradually or suddenly? How is the metric (in this case revenue)"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