Interview Questions

Anonymous Panda - "Goal: The goal of the product is to create a virtual communication system that enables the CEO/Executives of Google to have realistic in-person interactions with people located in different parts of the world. Identifying Different Users: CEO of Google Business executives and professionals Selecting Right User: The primary user for this product is the CEO of Google who needs to have a virtual communication system that can facilitate face-to-face interactions. Defining Features: High-q"See full answer

Dinesh K. - "Zomato - Great selection of restaurants to order food from . Google Maps - De facto app to know more about stores , landmarks , traffic . Google Pay - Payments using UPI"See full answer

Michael F. - "Prompt: We work for an online shopping website. Our team wants to consider offering discounts (e.g. 10% off your next purchase) to customers to incentivize them to make purchases. How would you design a system that decides how to offer these incentives? Answer Goals: Increase customer engagement while controlling costs. Specifically, we want the increase in revenue per customer per week of customers that receive the discount to be greater than the cost of the discount. Metrics: Revenue per cu"See full answer

Aiden L. - "clarification define a handyman: someone who's paid to do minor renovations or domestic repairs. define the app: standalone or within facebook or meta's app family? why are we designing this? should I come up with a goal (engagement, monetization)? constraints (financials/timeline)? goal: adoption. since it's a new app, i want ppl to adopt first and then monetize the users. I'd define a handyman as someone who's paid by app users to do minor fixes, such as unc"See full answer

Garima B. - "I faltered on this question. I haven't given a PMM interview in a very long time since I moved from marketing to pure product management. I chose DownDog Yoga App as my preferred app, since I use either either their sleep meditations or the yoga app thrice a week. The feature that was introduced was Aerial Yoga (the interviewer made it as a feature) I went with the assumption that Aerial Yoga is something that needs to be driven off-line rather than online - requires studio space, infrastructr"See full answer

Anonymous Giraffe - "Assumptions: timeline will be open, both platforms, target is globally. and specifically working with Nike App for shopping Company goal: Goal of Nike is to "Just Do It" as well as anybody can be an athlete, *Goal is open, so the purpose of the app is to allow users to see new items at hand and shop Nike process, Target Segment: 1. Frequent Users 2 First Time users. a. First time users downloading app. 2b. User who have already purchased an order and use the app to see shopping history. User J"See full answer

Lucy Y. - "I'm a bit confused - The $40B hrs is the total time spent commuting to work, correct? Whereas the question asks "hours lost ... in traffic". Is the answer not correct then?"See full answer

Bhavana J. - "Clarifying questions: What is the travel experience? International/ domestic travel for company work or local commute to the office? Is there any specific metric that we are targeting? Assuming that interviewer says no metric is defined and we are talking about domestic and international travel for company purposes. I'm going to assume that covid disrupting travel is something that I have to keep in mind but that we are also thinking about how things will be improved in the longer run (i"See full answer

Kiran K. - "I depends on the severity of the bug and the impact of the new feature. Is the bug a blocker and is having direct impact on the business flow? Is the new feature mission critical and has a major impact on customer experience, revenue, business, etc. Conduct an analysis. Include key stakeholders in this discussion."See full answer

Exponent - "This is an Improve a Product question. Let's first go over the Improve a Product formula: Ask clarifying questions Identify users, behaviors, and pain points State product goal Brainstorm small improvements Brainstorm bolder improvements Measure success Summarize Now, let's begin! Ask clarifying questions Before we begin listing off recommendations, it's important you ask questions to ensure you and the interviewer are on the same page"See full answer

Wyatt T. - "Clarifying Questions: Is this a Direct-To-Consumer Model or Peer-to-Peer? Assumptions: Direct-To-Consumer Will take place in the United States Primarily Desktop Experience Goal: We are trying to generate leads for Sales Reps Potential Customers: Younger Urban Dwellers Pros Tesla overall age skews younger Generally more Environmentally Conscious Users will likely stay with the same car brand for many decades Cons "See full answer

Anonymous Muskox - "An operating system like Android Go for low-powered devices. Slimming of application like Google Go or Gmail Go which is focused on the emerging markets. Strategic partnership with local telecom companies to provide free wifi to emerging or markets with low data. For example -> Facebook partnered with JIO in India to make the internet penetration more deep. "See full answer