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Product Sense

How would you design Uber for Kids?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you consider Uber products beyond ridesharing?
Did you consider the needs of parents?

You're the PM for the walking experience of Google Maps. How would you think about improving it?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you think about why Google Maps is important for Google overall? And why Walking is important for Google Maps?
Did you think about not just Walkers, but also other user groups like Small Businesses?

What's your favorite product and why? How would you improve it?

[Your answer here]

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Execution

You’re the PM for Facebook Search. How would you set goals for your team?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you consider the possibility that searching on Facebook implies you weren’t able to get what you were looking for from the News Feed, Notifications, etc.?

You’re the PM for YouTube Ads. How would you decide how many minutes of ads to show per minute of organic video content?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you consider length of video as a factor?
How about sensitivity of each user to ads?

You’re a PM at Airbnb and messages between hosts and guests are down 5%. How would you figure out what happened?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
What if messages per booking are the same, but it’s bookings that are actually down?
Did you check if it’s host messages down versus guest messages down?
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Behavioral / Leadership

What are you working on learning / getting better at now?

[Your answer here]

Tell me about one of your past accomplishments you're most proud of

[Your answer here]

Tell me about a time you really messed up and what you learned

[Your answer here]

Tell me about a time you had to resolve a big conflict with some teammates

[Your answer here]

If I called your past manager and asked for praise / areas of improvement, what would they say?

[Your answer here]

Tell me about a time you had to get something done with insufficient resources

[Your answer here]
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Estimation

How much does an airplane weigh?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you ask if the plane is full of people?
Did you clarify passenger plane versus cargo plane?

Apple wants to buy a fleet of autonomous vehicles to do their own version of Street Maps. Each street must be updated at least once per year. How many cars should they buy to cover all the streets in the United States?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you consider that autonomous vehicles can’t drive at night?
Or drive in harsh weather conditions?
How about one-way streets? Dead ends?

How many bicycles are there in America?

[Your answer here]
Reveal additional considerations
Did you consider bikesharing companies’ impact on total number of bikes?
How about bicycles in warehouses/stores?
Did you address whether motorcycles should count or not?
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Technical

Tell me about a time you worked with your engineering team to solve a technical problem and how you approached it

[Your answer here]

How does Google Docs work?

[Your answer here]

What happens between when you hit enter to load a webpage on your computer/phone and when the webpage finally loads in your browser?

[Your answer here]

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Product Sense
How would you design Uber for Kids?
You're the PM for the walking experience of Google Maps. How would you think about improving it?
What's your favorite product and why? How would you improve it?
Execution
You’re the PM for Facebook Search. How would you set goals for your team?
You’re the PM for YouTube Ads. How would you decide how many minutes of ads to show per minute of organic video content?
You’re a PM at Airbnb and messages between hosts and guests are down 5%. How would you figure out what happened?
Behavioral / Leadership
What are you working on learning / getting better at now?
Tell me about one of your past accomplishments you're most proud of
Tell me about a time you really messed up and what you learned
Tell me about a time you had to resolve a big conflict with some teammates
If I called your past manager and asked for praise / areas of improvement, what would they say?
Tell me about a time you had to get something done with insufficient resources
Estimation
How much does an airplane weigh?
Apple wants to buy a fleet of autonomous vehicles to do their own version of Street Maps. Each street must be updated at least once per year. How many cars should they buy to cover all the streets in the United States?
How many bicycles are there in America?
Technical
Tell me about a time you worked with your engineering team to solve a technical problem and how you approached it
How does Google Docs work?
What happens between when you hit enter to load a webpage on your computer/phone and when the webpage finally loads in your browser?
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