Product Manager Interview Questions

Karthik T. - "Clarifying questions : I would like to confirm what type of parking spots we are talking about, should we assume cars ? Assumption : Cars Is it referring to only parking spots in non-residential complexes or public places or does it include residential too ?Assumption : both Assumptions : Places where we could see parking spots Shopping malls Parking in the park Residence spots Legal parking spots Variables in play Population = assuming a family of 4 => population / 4 (nu"See full answer

Saket S. - "I will divide my answer in 2 parts: Process I use for managing risks in any Project I will explain a real life situation where a Risk occurred and how I managed it Process for Risk Management can be broken down into 3 parts: Risk Identification: Risk identification is a team effort and is an ongoing process that happens throughout the Project. Technical Risks are usually identified during design/build/testing stage. I maintain a Risk register document to capture all the risks identified"See full answer

Anonymous Minnow - "First, lets dive deeper into the question. I would ask - What are the top challenges facedtoday? What user segments work well, and what do we want to focus on? What do we know about competitors, and what can we learn from them? What user flows have the highest engagement in VR today? Are we focusing on consumer use cases or enterprise? Are we tackling activation or retention, or do we want to increase engagement? To build a strategy here I would target this from four differe"See full answer

Preetham m P. - "Clarifying Questions Is the product a digital or physical marketplace? (Digital) Are we building an educational platform, freelance platform, or marketplace? (Freelance platform) Are we focusing on a specific geographical location? (India) Will the platform involve online transactions? (Yes) User Personas Individual Gardeners: Self-employed gardeners offering their services. Gardening Agencies: Organizations providing gardening services. **Educational Institutio"See full answer

Vihari K. - "Situation: While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated. Action: Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"See full answer

Anonymous Newt - "CQ: What's the goal - we are just exploring Any specific timeline we are targeting - NA Why specifically podcast - its a growing area and can help engage the customers Any specific geography to be kept on mind - You tell Approach: Understand Netflix’s landscape Understand more about the Podcast space via Porter’s 5 Forces framework Decide mode of entry Tradeoffs & Risk Netflix’s landscape; Product - OTT player Who uses - kids, adults When do they use – leisure"See full answer

Michelle D. - "I'd tell the interviewer that I'd start off with clarifying the question to make sure I understand it correctly (see 1 below). Then, I'd tell the interviewer my approach to make sure they know what to expect as I talk through. Approach would start with discussing the mission and connecting a north star metric (NSM) to the mission, then discuss key product metrics that are inputs towards NSM. If there's time at the end and if the interviewer wants to go down this path, we should also talk about t"See full answer

fuzzyicecream14 - "App I Don’t Like: Electrify America What Electrify America Is Supposed to Do Electrify America is an app designed to help electric vehicle (EV) owners locate, access, and pay for fast-charging stations across the U.S. The app provides real-time station availability, allows users to initiate and monitor charging sessions, and offers membership plans for discounted rates. Ideally, it should enable a seamless charging experience, especially for long-distance travelers relying on i"See full answer

Mark H. - "Clarification: workplace is a communication messaging tool for employee to send and receive messages. Why: meta's mission current landscape market trends meta's unique value strength & weakness Workplace Mission: build a communication tool for employees to better collaborate and engage with each other Goal: focus on engagement, not revenue Product ecosystem: Meta Company sourcing department IT department User: sender/receiver #of people log in #of people"See full answer

Bimal M. - "Clarification questions: What do you mean by online furniture-selling market? Why would google want to do it? Why does google want to do it now? Where does google want to launch it? Let me make the assumptions answering above questions: It is like google flights, say we call it google furnitures, where it organizes, curates furniture information to the users and then refers to the seller website instead of selling furniture directly to the consumer like amazon, walmart, way"See full answer

Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

Saleel P. - "This is my first attempt at an estimation question, any feedback is appreciated. I'd like to clarify if AirBNB's core services would include user reservations on its web/mobile platform on a per night basis. I'd also assume if we would to estimate the topline revenue (or gross merchandise sales) without factoring operational expenses and taxes. I'd also clarify if basing my estimation on revenue from its largest marketplace, US, is reasonable. Population of US - 350 MM Avg Household size - 2.5"See full answer

Debajyoti B. - "Understanding the problem: What do we mean by email notification experience here? Is it the quantity of notifications or quality?- it's the quality of the experience i.e. how can we make the experience better & more user centric How would you define enhance in this context?- here enhacement means improving the engagement with the emails resulting in more people viewing the photo/s on FB with email as source Are we supposed to enhance the viewer's experience only or the creators as w"See full answer

Rita V. - "Gardening product for Meta Clarifying question: Is this going to be a new product? Or part of FB/IG? Gardening as a work? Pleasure? Lets start with META mission - Meta’s mission is to bring people together and form a community. In our case of gardening, it can be smart to solve the case of tips and questions, specially for users that just start to do some gardening. Its a nice hobby and can bring people to work together and support each other. Users I think I will go and seg"See full answer

Karthik T. - "In our product portfolio there were many teams and we were almost 12 product managers interacting closely to deliver the entire product feature area. Situation was that we were frequently had defects come in which will result in defects pushed back and forth. Goal was to avoid this as SLA of defects was getting impacted immensely there were priority 2 defects which we were sitting for couple of weeks before being looked at. There was a need to establish a triaging process. Along with my leaders"See full answer

Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"See full answer

Nilesh S. - "A daily 10 minute cadence to make a note of the progress and the deliverables for the day, should help ascertain the delivery and to meet schedule the self performing teams need to be on toes to deliver. Time lines need to be revisited end of each day to evalute the impact."See full answer