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1
Common
What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?
2
Common
How do you stay user-focused?
3
Common
What main changes would you make to [our product]?
4
Common
How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years?
5
Common
Tell us about a time you used data to influence an important stakeholder.
6
Common
Tell us about a time you faced failure and how you bounced back.
7
Common
How would you improve your favorite product?
8
Common
What’s your approach to prioritizing tasks?
9
Common
Why do you want to work at [our company]?
10
Common
Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?
11
Product Questions
How would you prioritize resources when you have two important things to do but can’t do them both?
12
Product Questions
Describe a scenario which required you to say no to an idea or project.
13
Product Questions
How do you decide what and what not to build?
14
Product Questions
What is a product you currently use every day? Why and how would you improve it?
15
Product Questions
There is a data point that indicates that there are more Uber drop-offs at the airport than pick-ups from the airport. Why is this the case and what would you do within the product to change that?
16
Product Questions
How would you improve the functionality of the product?
17
Product Questions
How would you increase adoption of X feature?
18
Product Questions
What is the key to a good user interface?
19
Product Questions
While we make X product for the general public, we also have a B2B division. What is your experience with juggling both markets?
20
Product Questions
How do you know if a product is well-designed?
21
Product Questions
How would you redesign our product?
22
Product Questions
What is one improvement you would implement for our product in the next 6 months?
23
Product Questions
What is a major challenge our company will face in the next 12-24 months?
24
Product Questions
How would you describe our product to someone?
25
Product Questions
Suggest a new feature for Amazon. What metrics would you use to measure its success?
26
Product Questions
What has made X product successful?
27
Product Questions
What do you dislike about our product?
28
Product Questions
How do you know when to cut corners to get a product out the door?
29
Product Questions
How do you think we came up with the product pricing?
30
Product Questions
Who are our competitors?
31
Product Questions
Tell me about a company that has great customer service, what they do, and why do they do it well?
32
Technical Questions
Our engineering teams are pretty used to employing X methodologies. What is your opinion of them? Have you used them in the past?
33
Technical Questions
What is the importance of engineers and technical teams as stakeholders? How do you integrate them into the overall product vision?
34
Technical Questions
Can you provide an example where a technical solution that you or your team designed became a commercial product?
35
Technical Questions
How do you ensure that market-oriented teams fully understand technical challenges?
36
Technical Questions
When are Bayesian methods more appropriate than Artificial Intelligence techniques for predictive analytics?
37
Analytical Questions
How many people are currently online in Europe?
38
Analytical Questions
How many windows are in New York City?
39
Analytical Questions
How many iPads are sold in the USA every year?
40
Analytical Questions
How much money is spent in the USA per year on gas?
41
Analytical Questions
How would you go about finding out the number of red cars in China?
42
Analytical Questions
If you wanted to build the world’s most popular mobile messaging product, and you need to estimate how much network bandwidth would be used in a year, how would you go about doing this?
43
Analytical Questions
____ metrics are down. How would you go about determining the root cause?
44
Product Management
What aspects of Product Management do you find the most exciting?
45
Product Management
Tell me about a time when you had to build or motivate a team.
46
Product Management
What do you think a day-to-day would be like for a Product Manager?
47
Product Management
How do you think Product Managers interact with engineers?
48
Product Management
How would you explain Product Management to a 5-year-old?
49
Product Management
What aspects of Product Management do you find the least interesting?
50
Product Management
Tell me about your role on your team, who else you work with, and how you work with them.
51
Behavioral Questions
Tell me about a challenging issue or challenge you took on.
52
Behavioral Questions
How do you interact with customers/users?
53
Behavioral Questions
Tell me how you've overcome product failures/challenges or poor feedback.
54
Behavioral Questions
Tell me about a time you had to influence someone.
55
Behavioral Questions
Tell me about a mistake you made and how you handled it.
56
Behavioral Questions
One executive says that Feature A is more important and another executive says Feature B is more important. How do you choose which one to implement?
57
Behavioral Questions
Tell me about a time you used data to make a decision.
58
Leadership and Communication
What’s the best way to work with executives?
59
Leadership and Communication
Is consensus always a good thing?
60
Leadership and Communication
What is the best way to work with customers and users?
61
Leadership and Communication
What kinds of people do you like to work with?
62
Leadership and Communication
What kind of people do you have a hard time working with?
63
Leadership and Communication
What would you do to get a team to stick to a schedule?
64
Leadership and Communication
What’s the difference between leadership and management?
65
General / personal / basic questions
Why should we hire you?
66
General / personal / basic questions
What do you do in your spare time?
67
General / personal / basic questions
Where do you see yourself in five years?
68
General / personal / basic questions
What's the most difficult decision you’ve ever had to make?
69
General / personal / basic questions
What do you need from your manager to be successful?
70
General / personal / basic questions
How do you say no to people?
71
General / personal / basic questions
What is one of the best ideas you’ve ever had?
72
General / personal / basic questions
What is one of the worst ideas you’ve ever had?
73
Remote Product Management Questions
Do you have experience in a remote working environment?
74
Remote Product Management Questions
How have you kept communication from breaking down in a remote setting?
75
Remote Product Management Questions
How would you face the challenge of managing a team that works across timezones?
76
Remote Product Management Questions
What challenges have you faced when working remotely? How have you overcome them?
77
Remote Product Management Questions
How would you build a high-performance async product team?
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