This Week's Top PM Interview Questions & Answers

Enroll by June 28th to get 10% off on our upcoming AI product management cohort and enjoy free 1-year VIP access to PM Exercises. Learn more

Answers of the Week

#1. Imagine you are the Product Manager of YouTube Shorts. What improvements would you make?

Step 1 - Explain the product

YouTube Shorts is the short video format for YouTube, which competes with Instagram Reels and TikTok. This is part of the larger Google ecosystem that includes G-Suite, etc.??

Step 2 - Scope the solution

When you say improve, are you looking at any specific metric. Why are we looking to improve the YouTube Shorts. I would assume we want to increase the time spent on the platform for the user.?Another thing is that I will assume this is for mobile because, while Shorts is available for both Web and Mobile, it is Mobile that will be the primary driver.

Step 3 - List and finalize the user type

YouTube Shorts has 2 main user types - the consumer and the creator. There is however a flywheel effect that exists here … Read More and Give Feedback

#2. For the Apple Card, a high number of customers are not making their monthly payments, resulting in negative effects to a customer’s account and high complaints call volume. Why might the customers be having issues making payments, and what happens to their accounts?

Clarifying Questions

1. Apple Card is issued by Goldman Sachs?in US - right? Yes.
2. So is it safe to assume' users domicile is US??Yes.
3. Any socio economic event to be factored into? For example Covid 19? Not necessarily
4. Any domographic info of users who are unable to make monthly payments? Well nothing in particular but make necessary assumptions.
5. Any info/details from customer complaints? General complaint. Make necessary assumptions.
6. Complaints call volume is on the Apple side or on the Goldman Sachs' side? on both.

Why

Apple card was introduced as part of Apple pay?

• to support the users and ecosystem
• to enhance?and Apple wallet experience … Read More and Give Feedback

#3. If you were the CPO of Atlassian, what would be your strategy for company growth?

As a CPO of Atlassian, I expect to deliver on a high level strategy defining top company bets and invetment areas for short and long horizons. I do not expect to go deep into feature level discussion here.?

Structure?-?

• Define company vision
• Brief about existing products and services along with target personas
• Important market trends
• Defining growth pillars and investment areas
• Prioritize among above
• Any changes to business model based on above
• Key metrics to track

Atlassian's mission?- To make?Teams?more?productive?with their digital tools and services … Read More and Give Feedback

Interview Questions of the Week

#1. YouTube usage has dropped by 50%. What would you do?

Asked by Google in Problem Solving 3 days ago

#2. Design and prepare a go-to-market strategy for a cab scheduling feature for Lyft.

Asked by Lyft in Product Launch 4 days ago

#3. Design a product that will disrupt the food delivery industry (e.g. Uber Eats).

Asked by Uber in Product Design 5 days ago

Featured Mock Interview Practice Seekers

Jarrod Dickerson

Product Manager.

Practicing for Product Improvement?and Behavioral.

J_killjoy

Product Manager.

Practicing for Metrics,?Product Design,?Product Improvement,?Problem Solving,?Product Launch and?Behavioral.

Learning Program

Save 10% on Our Upcoming AI Product Management Cohort

Join our immersive 4-week live online program to become an effective AI PM.

Apply by June 28th, 2024 to receive 10% off our 7th AI Product Management cohort launching this August.

Upcoming AI PM Community Session

Led by Joon Kim, who teaches Law and Regulation of Artificial Intelligence at Cornell University, this session provides a high level overview of the latest regulatory developments in AI and assesses legal risks at different product components of an AI system.

We offer free access to our AI PM community sessions, which are open to the public. The next session will be held on Friday, June 21st, 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

Previous AI PM Community Session

Participants learned how to build and leverage multi-agent AI systems to create one-person billion-dollar startups and enterprise companies.This session was led by AI Product Manager, Ankit Raheja.