Product Manager Analytical Interview Questions

Kena K. - "Lyft’s mission: To become the world’s best transportation company CQ: · Region: USA · Metrics to improve: Engagement User persona: · Passengers · Drivers Will consider passengers persona for this case. Use case / pain points: Exact pick up location is not visible on the map Not able to communicate exact location to the driver due to unknown location How to change the pick-up location in case passenger has to move around Features: Passenger can share a pictur"See full answer

Julien C. - "Hi there! Thank you for your response! I'm not sure I understand your thought process. Could you clarify why changes in the onboarding is impacting our ability to retain users after 3 months?"See full answer

Parag - "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"See full answer

Anonymous Salmon - "clarify: paid users, annual subscription user segmentation: levels; active vs dormant; age; regions use cases & pain points solution brainstorm: retention = activation + engagement + resurrection; prioritization of solutions execution"See full answer

Coach - "Product "XYZ" explain what it is and which audience it is serving. Goals Ease the anxiety Offer the most comprehensive perspective of Cloud Engagement Democratize Upsell Insights Business Review Deck Slide #1: NPS - Now, Trend & Insights + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #2: User Engagement Update - DAU, WAU, MAU, Actions Completed + Call To Action: FYI & solicit feedback Slide #3: Partnership Update - Share new cross org collabor"See full answer

Julien C. - "👇 Your feedback is very much appreciated 👇 Reduce scope of product for the initial launch. Streamline the PRD to an actual MVP and use the current PRD (that takes 6 months to build) for the V1"See full answer

Nayla D. - "Instagram is social media app where you can share photo and video to others. Impressions is an important metrics to track because it shows how many contents that users see. Clarify Questions: Is this drop happen suddenly or gradually? - Gradually How long has it been happening? - Last 3 months Is it happen globally or in certain region? - Globally Is the drop happen to all user segments (age, new/existing, active/less active users)? - all user segments When calculating an impressions,"See full answer

Anil K. - "Acquisition New sign-ups for Google Drive Service Google Drive app installs Activation Number of users with at least one file since sign-up Paid Google Drive Users Engagement DAU, MAU Sessions, Frequency Time spend Files accessed per session Task completion - sharing file, setting up automatic back up etc. Retention % Repeat Users % Users Churning out Google App Uninstalls Referral Inviting"See full answer

Calyan - "Hangouts 100k feedback gave 3* rating, in 2013. What to do next Clarify: Solving for 2013, should disregard changes made (Allo, Gchat, Gmeet) since then? [yes] Is this on any specific platform - App Store or Play store? [both] Consumer or Enterprise [consumer] Problem framing - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mission: org world info., be helpful. Hangouts role in this mission to help users stay connected, exchange info and content (via messages and calls) Biz/ Prod goals Growth/ acq Install ba"See full answer

Anonymous Crayfish - "Let me tell you about a time when I solved a problem at my previous company (one of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies). This was an internship and I was coming with almost 2 years of experience and 2 semesters of my graduate program. My experiences have mostly been theoretical or with startups. I've never solved problems at scale. The first week at this team was slow and relaxed, it was just onboarding. The real work started from the 2nd week when I felt like I was pushed into the ocean with n"See full answer

Anubhav A. - "Started at 10.55 Clarifying questions: This is what I understand from a telemedicine platform -> A platform where users can get advice on medication over the telephone, is this correct? Does the retail company also sell medicines? Is the user aware that the telemedicine platform and the retail company are connected, and can either of the platforms use his data? Is the user engaging with the platform directly, or is there an agent to who he is speaking to via call/text? Does the"See full answer

Himanshu V. - "Video engagement: time spent, frequency, recency Video completion rate Time spent on Facebook vs Time spent on watching FB videos Video recommendation: Switching from 1st to 2nd and so on "See full answer

John F. - "First, I would like to establish some assumptions about the problem to determine if this is possible. For this scenario, I will assume that “accepted” does not mean a student is enrolled at the university (most students apply to multiple universities and can only attend one university). For simplicity, I will also assume that each student is applies to a single department and that every student is associated with a single department. Based on this information, I see a scenario that this would"See full answer

Josh L. - "I would define success by first figuring out what our goal is by building the reels feature. Are we trying to increase DAUs? Increase enagement? Etc... For the sake of this, I think to define success it makes most sense to see if there is an increase in the amount of time users are spending on instagram. If time spent per user increases, it is likely that ad spend can increase and in turn increases instagram's reveue. We need to be sure that there are guard rails in place and make sure that by"See full answer

Yulia D. - "First, I would like to ask some clarifying questions. Are we talking about the business metrics dashboard or health metrics(like response time)? - it is up to you Do I understand right that Netflix is a subscription-based video streaming service for watchers? So I know that they create original content for Netflix, but it is out of the scope of this question. - right My approach will be to: Define the business goal from Netflix’s mission Break down the actions taken by users at each stage of the"See full answer