New PM Interview Questions, Answers & more

Become an AI Product Manager with our upcoming 6th AI PM Cohort! Get a 5% discount by applying before April 22nd. Slots are limited. Learn more

Answers of the Week

#1. How would you measure the success of Facebook Likes?

The best way to approach this answer (in my perspective) is to look at them from the lens of the user personas. To put it broadly, lets talk about 3-4 types of important users that may require to critically measure:

Brand Marketers?aim to boost brand awareness and customer engagement. They measure success through:

• The engagement rate, comparing likes per post with the total follower count to gauge engagement.
• Conversion rates, tracking how likes translate into actions like website visits or sales.
• Sentiment analysis of comments and shares to understand brand perception.

Content Creators?focus on audience growth and content visibility … Read More and Give Feedback

#2. Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on?

Company context:?

Lyft is an American mobility as a service company (MaaS), offering ride-hailing, rental vehicles?and food delivery in the US and select cities in Canada. It is the second-largest ridesharing company in the US after Uber.?

Approach

Using the formula for?driver earnings?=??(base rate x surcharge rate) x?ride type?x?no. of deliveries x drive length, we can identify some variables that may impact their earnings, which is the primary reason why they use they drive on Lyft.?

I will start by clarifying the problem, analysing the user journey, and then coming up with a diagnosis … Read More and Give Feedback

#3. How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?

Problem Statement:?Build a bicycle-renting app for tourists??

About:

Bike share is a modern transportation method that permits people to travel using publicly accessible bicycles. It involves a set of purpose-built, robust, and long-lasting bikes that are secured into a network of docking stations spread throughout the service zone.?

-The bikes can be unlocked from any station and returned to any other station in the system, making bike share a great option for short, one-way journeys.

Users:

- Tourists - Users who search, view and rent a bike

1. International tourists: Users from a different country

2. Domestic tourists: Users from a different state or city … Read More and Give Feedback

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. As a PM at Amazon, if returns and cancellations have recently peaked, how would you go about identifying the root cause?

Asked by Amazon yesterday

#2. You are the PM responsible for the "Recommended for you" content strip in the Disney Plus app, and you have noticed a sudden 10% drop in total average minutes viewed. What do you do?

Asked by Walt Disney 4 days ago

#3. You've noticed a significant increase in customer complaints about inaccurate billing in the Zoomcar app. Customers report discrepancies between the charges quoted during booking and the final amount billed to their accounts. As a product manager, how would you identify the root cause(s) of this issue?

Asked by Zoomcar

Featured Mock Interview Practice Seekers

Sarra B.

Product Manager Lead.

Practicing for Metrics,?Product Design and?Product Improvement.

Yojana Menda

Product Lead.

Practicing for Product Design,?Product Improvement and?AB Testing.

Learning Programs

Discovering Pain Points During A PM Interview

In this lesson, we will go over how you can prepare yourself to do well in discovering pain points during a PM job interview.

Become a World-Class AI Product Manager in 2024

Learn the fundamentals of product management in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

by joining our 6th cohort for AI Product Management.

Upcoming AI PM Community Session

Join us on April 13th for an enlightening session featuring Bijan Shahrokhi, the CEO of PM Exercises and ProductMonkey.AI. Bijan will go over the AI tech stack behind product monkey ai, share challenges faced in driving adoption, and review solutions that resulted in thousands of companies as users of the product.

Product Monkey AI is an AI assistant for product managers, is being built in the public by the team at PM Exercises, and is used by thousands of product teams around the world.

We offer free access to our AI PM community sessions, which are open to the public. These sessions are held every Saturday at 9:30 AM PST. Join us and become a part of our AI PM Community. We look forward to seeing you there. Join Session

Previous AI PM Community Session

With more than a decade of experience, including four years dedicated to developing an AI Copilot for Product Teams, Prashant Mahajan has established himself as an expert in creating B2B, B2C, and AI products.

He shared valuable insights and lessons learned from his journey of building an AI copilot for product teams, covering how to initiate such a project, the challenges he encountered, and offered guidance for those interested in venturing into the field of AI product management.