Product-related Questions

1. What makes a great product?
2. 2. What changes you would make to our existing product?
3. 3. What is your favorite product? What would you improve in that product to make it more successful?
4. 4. What are the essential things to be taken into account before creating a product roadmap?
5. 5. Which framework you would use to prioritize product features?
6. 6. When would you say a product design is complete?
7. 7. How would you design a new product for x set of users?
8. 8. RCA (Root Cause Analysis Questions) – You are a product manager for a Z product, and you see an N% of decrease in the metrics. Find the cause for this drop.
9. 9. You are a PM for X product that is launching soon. How would you define its success?
10. 10. How would you price our newly launched product?
11. 11. What do our competitors do better than us?
12. 12. What are the different metrics that you measure in a social media application?
13. 13. You just started as a new Product Manager on a mature product that will release a significant update. You have been tasked with the press release for the update. How would you go about doing it?
14. 14. Describe how you have collaborated with a design team to ship a product or feature
15. 15. Talk about how you have worked with an engineering team to ship a product or feature.

Technical Questions

1. Explain the importance of managing page load speeds to a freshman at a college.
2. 2. Explain what an API is
3. 3. What is a protocol, and why is it important? Explain this to a 65-year old retiree who wants to work online. Use an analogy to help them understand.
4. 4. You need to write an algorithm to do ABC; how would you do it?
5. 5. How would you work out if the user experience on your website is well-liked?
6. 6. What does a privacy trade-off mean to the average internet user?
7. 7. How would you create a User Persona?
8. 8. Which metrics would you use to decide the targeting users?

Behavioral Questions

1. How would you align your team with the product vision and goals?
2. 2. Guesstimation Questions – How many Google searches are done per minute?
3. 3. Tell me a time when you faced rejection and how you managed it.
4. 4. How do you feel about the newest acquisition of Company X by Company Y?
5. 5. Why did you choose Product Management?
6. 6. Why are you switching your career as a marketer/developer/designer to Product Management?
7. 7. How do you see your growth in this field?
8. 8. Why are you switching companies?
9. 9. What would you do if your development team refuses to work on a new feature that you think is important as they are currently working on an important patch?
10. 10. What would you do if there is a disagreement between a designer and a developer?
11. 11. Have you ever said ‘no’ to senior management?
12. 12. Why our company?