Recent Product Manager Interview Questions

Ilya P. - "They would be better off with stories, i guess."See full answer

Sameer A. - "Google’s Mission: Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible. Google offers perhaps the most consequential set services available on the internet today - Search, Maps, Gmail, Drive, Docs, etc. These services reach billions of users across the world and they are all available for free. Google is able to give away these services for free because of how their business model works. Google’s Business Model: Google makes money from Ads. They offer perhaps the most"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

Tara J. - "I would like to speak loud to narrow the scope of this question so I can be effective in identifying a solution to the problem on hand. Hope that is OK. You mentioned, “Re-design the airport experience”. Is there a goal for this re-design exercise? Some top goals that come to my mind are the following. Please guide me so I can set it and we can proceed from there. “Increase the number of passengers who travel to and from this airport” “Improve customer satisfaction” **“Get in"See full answer

Anonymous Sparrow - "To make sure we are on the same page, this is a feature in the current FB app that would make it easier for people to volunteer? Or more broadly, the feature would aim to expand the base of volunteers. To start I want to dive deeper on the objective of the feature. Then we can look at possible users, pick a segment and outline their needs, then look at some solutions. We can then prioritize and see how we might roll something like this out. If I look at FB mission of building community and brin"See full answer

Siddharth R. - "IG already has a large user base. So the team would not need to look into acquire more people but enable new feature(s) for users to be more excited (which eventually would result in more people coming back more often). Facebook, as a company, strives to connect more people and help them have an amazing experience through interactions with their friends. This is the basic principle on which FB's various apps work on. So I would aim to build this feature with the overall vision of the company to"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

Max V. - "What can be a camera ? point and shoot camera - to capture events Video camera - to record events Surveillance camera - cctv camera to monitor movements Elderly above 65 (male and female) with or without any medical condition Elderly can be tech-savvy but majority would be non-tech savvy. We can also further look to segment this customer base as elderly who are Living with their Children Living in foster care Living alone For the moment , i would restrict the geo"See full answer

Namrata L. - "Clarifying questions What do you mean by app for gardening? E-commerce kind of app for buying selling or tutorial or something else? Up to me. What is the goal of this app? Getting users and increasing engagement Who are we? startup What is the time frame we are looking at for this? No constraints Where are we looking to implement this? Start with India. User segments Type: Commercial, Personal Plant Parent: New, medium, Old Profession: Student, Working Professional, Stay"See full answer

Tim W. - "Clarify "What do you mean by favorite product? Are you thinking specifically hardware, software, or a feature within those, or something non-electronic? Dealer's Choice. "Are you asking why I love this product, or to explain why this product is a market leader independent of how i feel about it? Talk about why YOU love this product. Rephrase Question With all that in mind, i want to rephrase the question. "What is your favorite software product and what features in this product"See full answer

Darren L. - "First I will set up the formula, second I will calculate each of the components then adding them up. Finally, I will talk about corner cases if any. 1, To begin with, I want to think broadly what could go into the equation. Bandwidth depends on number of devices at a time, so if a student use both laptop and phone at the same time then we have 2. Beside, grad students need internet for various reasons, such as checking email, searching on Google for information, watching lectures... Different a"See full answer

Jasmin R. - "Candidate: Before we go ahead I have a few clarifying questions, I’d like to ask. Interviewer: Sure. Candidate: What is the exact definition of a restaurant, are we counting coffee shops, bars, street food trolleys, homemade food shops that only has delivery to customers’ place and etc... kinds of a restaurant as well? Interviewer: let’s assume that we only mean restaurants that people can go inside, order some food and eat. Let’s not consider bars and coffee shops and so"See full answer