Latest PM Interview Questions and Answers

Join our 4-week live online program, designed by AI experts, to become an effective AI PM. Earn your AI PM Certificate, unlock fundamental concepts of AI/ML and more. The program starts the week of October 14, 2024. Slots are limited. Learn more

Answers of the Week

#1. Should Google offer a Stubhub competitor? That is, sell sports, concert, and theater tickets?

I'd first clarify the goal of offering this product. Will assume primary goal is to increase revenue.?

Another possible goal to consider is to bring new users onto their other products (e.g. Youtube, Youtube Music, Google Play, etc), but the overall?primary goal?for doing this would likely be the same (increase revenue for Google).

With that clarified, I'd approach this problem in the following way.

• What is the size of the opportunity?
• What does Google do?
• What products does Google already offer that may influence this decision
• Who are the existing players in this space?and what is the cost to enter the market and compete?
• Outside of costs, are there any other risks to consider
• Based on the above, make a final decision

What is the size of the opportunity?

In an ideal world, we'd have market research on hand for this, but assuming the interviewer wants us to make a guess here … Read More and Give Feedback

#2. How would you measure success for Facebook Events?

Product goal: facebook events?

CQ: pages, groups, RSVP ,

Online and offline?

User goal: to use and engage with facebook events

Business goal: more the users are inclined towards using facebook events, more time are they spending on app and hence more monetization

User types/ stakeholders:

Event creators , event consumers , business groups / event companies

User journey:

Creator: group/ page / person can directly create from button >

create an event? > send an official invite > other ppl accept > respond > get rsvp

Consumer> come across events via direct invite / referral / looking across timelines/ newsfeed? > look at event details > ask some question > rsvp or not … Read More and Give Feedback

#3. How would you improve YouTube?

1. Describe the product - What does it do? Who uses it? How do they use it? YouTube is one of the most popular video streaming platforms. Supports both long-form and short-form content. The videos are uploaded by the general masses.

2. Clarification questions

1. What do you want to improve in the app? And why? Revenue/ Engagement/ Retention/ Adoption? -? Say revenue. This is because YT has a user base of more than 2.5 MAU but the paid subscribers are around 3.2%
2. Shall we also consider how much are we planning to increase? Say 1%
3. Is there a specific channel to be considered (Web/Mobile/ Tablets)? No, overall
4. Do I own the entire app or am I the PM for a specific vertical? Say the entire app
5. Is there a geography that we are looking at? Say India
6. Is there a timeline that we are looking at? Say 6 months
7. Shall we improve an existing feature or build a new one? Anything ?

3. Choose a metric to be improved - North Star metric under the umbrella of the main objective - Revenue. We have to increase the number of people who buy the YT subscription … Read More and Give Feedback

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. How would you design an algorithm to rank ads in the Google Play Store?

Asked by Google in Technical 3 days ago

#2. Design a banking product within Meta.

Asked by Meta (Facebook) in Product Design 3 days ago

#3. You’re the Head of Product at Spotify. What would you build and why?

Asked by Spotify in Product Design 4 days ago

Featured Mock Interview Practice Seekers

Ashutosh Mishra

Program Manager.

Practicing for Estimation, Metrics, Product Design, Problem Solving, Product Improvement, Product Launch, Product Strategy and more.

Kanica Hussain

Product Manager.

Practicing for Metrics, Product Improvement, Product Launch and Product Strategy.

Learning Program

Common Mistakes in Answering AB Testing Questions

Discover the errors candidates make during product management interviews when addressing A/B testing questions, and learn how to avoid these pitfalls.

8th AI Product Manager Cohort

Become an AI Product Manager by enrolling in our AI PM learning program, which includes over 20 hours of live, hands-on workshops.

The program starts the week of October 14, 2024. Slots are limited.

Upcoming AI PM Community Session

In this session, Somnath Biswas, a seasoned AI PM and current Head of Product at Totaljobs, will share his experience in building conversational assistants.

He will discuss when to prompt-tune vs fine-tune, prompt engineering approaches, when to use RAG vs the large context window, and other product decisions, trade-offs and risks involved in building conversational assistants in an enterprise setup.

We offer free access to our AI PM community sessions, which are open to the public. The next session will be held on Friday, September 13th, at 9:00 AM PST. Join us and become a part of our AI PM Community. We look forward to seeing you there. Join Session