Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

Praveen - "I will start with discussing the Google mission statement, which is to organize the world's information and make it easily accessible to everyone to help them get things done, and make their day a bit easier. I will think about building something that will leapfrog this mission. Google has already organized all of the world's public digital information in the current state. There are opportunities to get more information into a digital form. But there are also significant improvements in mak"See full answer

Lokesh K. - "Clarification: What are we trying to improve on Facebook Marketplace? I would like you to ponder on this. I'll take on how to monetize the Marketplace. Thus, improving it from the company's perspective Do we have any particular Demography in Mind Take India, as it is one of the biggest market available. What do I understand by Facebook Marketplace? It is a place where both buyers and sellers get a chance to connect within Facebook. The Sellers have the option of postin"See full answer

Anonymous Hummingbird - "Clarifying questions: · Is there a specific scenario we are building before? Example: urgent need for a specific type of blood vs building up blood banks proactively. You decide · This would be for mobile/web and integrate into the existing facebook product? Yes Ok before we get started I wanted to discuss the facebook mission: to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. I can see how blood donation fits directly into this, enabling blood donation helps"See full answer

Rajesh V. - "As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily. I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"See full answer

Priya K. - "Clarifying questions : Which Kindle device are we talking about ? Kindle paper white, Kindle Oasis? , Kindle paper white 6.9' , Kindle tabs ? - Kindle oasis Kindle Oasis , what are the metric we are trying to achieve ? users onboarding? more marketshare? onboard amazon existing customers Landscape : Competition : In ebook readers, the main competition comes from Kobo, iPads, tabs. Kindle oasis feature is especially and absolutely for reading purpose and buying books to read and th"See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "User Persona Individual heavy Users Casual users Enterprise Users Occasional Users I would like to think more about the Enterprise users, because they are the power users and the maximum revenue of the Google may come up with the enterprise solutions. It is my hypothesis that despite of improvement of the Google drive, common individual users are highly unlikely to use the premium version of the G Suite User Journey of the person using Google Drive Want to work on the new document"See full answer

Bella R. - "Approach Clarify the question Define deaf --> unable to hear, but can communicate via sign language, lip read and use all other senses Define fire alarm --> for residential use, it notifies occupants of smoke and potential fires and alerts fire department to check in and/or come over Define constraints --> budgetary constraint, design should be user-friendly and convenient Define goals --> get folks out of harm's way quickly and notify fire department to c"See full answer

Akshai V. - "Google Assistant is the Voice AI which converts Natural Language to Queries/Instruction , processes it and get the results and again converts it back to Meaningful Results to the User Currently Google Assistant is Integrated in Multiple End Points. Phone Google Home Chrome Cast Google Chrome Books Some of the Use Cases Google Assistant is used is Making Phone Calls/Texting Asking General Queries/Searching for Information Integration with Devices and Turning them O"See full answer

Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

Dev S. - "My Favorite Product is Grammarly unlike Microsoft spell checker, it helps correct the mistakes as I compose my sentences. It follows rules, patterns, machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing (NLP) to improve users’ writing skills and improve their confidence in writing skills. I would evaluate this product by the following design principles. Usefulness Understandability Innovative It’s honest I can expand this criterion and explain how I evaluate prod"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer

Dhruv M. - "While interning at Numerix Analytics, I was working on a campaign analysis project where I used customer engagement data to recommend which email subject lines performed best. Based on open rate data from the past two campaigns, I concluded that short, curiosity-based subject lines were outperforming more direct ones. I recommended using that style for the next major campaign. The marketing team followed my recommendation. However, the open and click-through rates for the next campaign dropped s"See full answer

Seyed rasoul J. - "I would start with the company vision then assuming we have more than one product team, craft the vision for the product through a collaboration of PMs and Tech leads, then based on that I will define the scope of each product team's milestones to achieve the product vision and go from both ends to fill the gap from what we already have and what needed to achieve the milestones."See full answer

Oded W. - "Pango Bit waze"See full answer

Patrick B. - "Clarification I would first try to understand what FB Marketplace is since I haven't really used it more than a few times. My understanding is the following Launched 2-3 years ago in the US, it is similar to web classified services such as Craigslist The sellers are not businesses but rather individuals, primarily in local areas Broad range of products with no particular focus: ranging from electronics, furniture, used cars to even apartment for rent. Sometimes posters are willin"See full answer

Srini K. - "performance issues and sudden spikes on input requests by scaling techniques and optimization."See full answer

Varun J. - "Assumptions: In-app feature Focused only on Facebook app and not messenger, WhatsApp, or Instagram Focused on community building and groups, not marketplace Facebook's mission is to bring people closer together and give people the power to build communities. Fans of Olympic games straddle across regions and across demographics such as age and gender. I'd assume the product for Olympics should be targeted to all demographics. However, given not everyone follows, or is interested in build"See full answer

P K. - "Clarifying/Assumptions: Assuming improvement refers to lift in engagement in this case. Youtube refers to the WWW and mobile platforms. Key User Segments: Creators Influencers/Celebrities Video bloggers Regular users Viewers Power watchers Casual watchers Churned watchers Selecting the Influencer segment from the above list since it is a smaller volume of users and will have a big impact on viewers. Also, it is easier to understand"See full answer

Anonymous Aardvark - "Recently, I had to make a decision that I could automate a part of a process now and help the operations team reducing 9 hours of manual work to 60 minutes for one client. The second option was to fully automate the end to end process that would take 4 weeks of development, but fully automate the process and that could be rolled out across the board. The process was to change the member's paperless preference to paper when a sent email gets bounced 3 times in a row and inform her with a paper"See full answer

Balaji G. - "My Answer. Please let me know your feedback. I have led many projects throughout my career. So, whenever I lead the project, I first try to clarify the goals and values delivered. For example, I was in charge of Data Analytics projects at my employment at a Startup. The team’s goal was launching the MVP. First, I discussed with the CEO to define the clear goal and scope for each of the projects. Next, I identified all the key stakeholders and received their inputs on the project's different a"See full answer