1. How would you design an airport ATM? (Stripe | 2024)
2. How would you improve Linkedin for Job-seekers? (Google | 2024) 3. Your favorite product, and how would you improve it? (Popular) 4. Build a parking solution as a Google Maps PM? (Google | 2024) 5. Build an App for theme park in Bay Area? (Meta | 2024) 6. Build a learning experience product for Youtube? (Google | 2024) 7. Build an ecommerce website for camping gadgets? (Linkedin | 2024)
Problems/ Solutions/ Goals Users Metrics Desires Features Product Sense Questions How to answer
Ask clarifying questions:
To be on the same page as interviewer. To fix the scope.
Problems/ Solutions/ Goals Users Metrics Desires Features
Summarize. How would you design an e-learning platform for corporates? How would you design an e-learning platform for corporates? Bad Answer
I would design a website where companies can upload training videos for their employees. It would have user accounts and a way to watch videos. Maybe we could add some quizzes too. We'd make it look nice and professional.
Good Answer
1. Clarification of the problem and goals
2. Identification of key stakeholders (HR, employees, content creators) 3. Outline of core features (user management, course creation, progress tracking, assessments) 4. Consideration of key requirements (scalability, security, integration) 5. Basic discussion of potential challenges 6. Suggestion of some success metrics
Outstanding Answer
As detailed as “Good Answer”, more depth, additionally with proactive identification and mitigation of risks and trade-offs. Metrics Questions Examples
1. As a PM at Spotify Podcasts, define success and what metrics
would you measure? (Meta | 2024) 2. How would you measure the success of Google Cloud Storage? (Google | 2024) 3. How would you measure the effectiveness of Ebay’s search algorithm? (Ebay | 2024) 4. What metrics would you measure as a PM for DoorDash? (DoorDash | 2024) 5. How would you measure success for Airline’s baggage claim service? (Google | 2024) 6. How would you design a product performance monitoring for Instagram Reels? (Google | 2024)
Skills
✔ User Empathy ✔ Data Fluency
✔ Problem Solving ✔ Prioritization ✔ Communication ✔ Business Sense Metrics Questions How to answer
1. Ask clarifying questions: Understand the feature.
To be on the same page as interviewer. To fix the scope.
2. Find why this product was created?
3. Map the user journey and critical metrics (Divide into segments)
4. Create Metric Tree. Leading & Lagging Metrics.
5. Find DND metric
What would be the success metrics for Whatsapp Status Updates? How to answer Time Spent Ad Revenue
New Repeat Users users Status Views Replies Reports RCA - Root Cause Analysis Examples
1. Engagement on Facebook News feed is going down, what would you do? (Meta | 2023) 2. Instagram feed impressions are down by 30%, what would you do? (Pinterest | 2024) 3. How would you measure the effectiveness of Ebay’s search algorithm? (Ebay | 2024) 4. What metrics would you measure as a PM for DoorDash? (DoorDash | 2024) 5. How would you measure success for Airline’s baggage claim service? (Google | 2024) 6. How would you design a product performance monitoring for Instagram Reels? (Google | 2024)
Skills
✔ User Empathy ✔ Data Fluency
✔ Problem Solving ✔ Prioritization ✔ Communication ✔ Business Sense Root Cause Analysis Implementation Bugs
1. Should Google enter into Health & Fitness Market? (Google | 2024) 2. How would you increase the profitability for BlinkIT? 3. Why is profile completion important for Linkedin? (Linkedin | 2024) 4. How would you grow revenue if you were (Spotify/Netflix/Youtube)? (DoorDash | 2023) 5. What do you think about Facebook’s acquisition of Instagram? How to decide if you should acquire someone?
Skills
✔ 2nd Order Thinking ✔ Data Fluency
✔ Problem Solving ✔ Market Understanding ✔ Communication ✔ Business Sense Important Strategic Thinking Tools
3C | 4P
Porter’s 5 Forces 3C - 4P Issue Trees:
Understand The Market Understand Company Divide and Conquer Profitability Cases Profits
Revenue Costs
Number of users ARPU Marketing Operations Product Dev.
Threat New Market Integration Price Integration Cost
Should Should WeWe Acquire Acquire This Company? This Company?
Company Value Fitment Cost
Valuation Growth Threat New Market Integration Price Integration Cost
Behavioral Questions Examples
1. Introduce yourself. 2. How do you influence people who don’t report to you? 3. How do you enable cross functional collaboration? 4. A situation when you have to deal with a difficult person? 5. Your recent weakness. One weakness you have recovered from? 6. How do you manage conflict? A situation. 7. Talk about an achievement/problem solving you are most proud of? 8. How do you handle a feature request from sales team?
Skills
✔ Cross Functional Collaboration
✔ Leadership Skills ✔ Stakeholder Management Behavioral Questions How to answer
1. Start with a takeaway and always have a takeaway. 16 Leadership Principles
2. Communicate in a structure. Be Prepared.
3. Never bad mouth. Look at the big picture.
4. Show that you don’t repeat mistakes.
5. Be specific and highlight your contribution.
Technical Questions Why are they asked?
1. You need to understand how your product & ecosystem works.
2. You need to collaborate with developers. 3. You need to be curious to learn, to solve problems. 4. You need to help your non-tech stakeholders.
Skills
✔ Cross Functional Collaboration
✔ Basics of Tech ✔ Problem Solving 5 types of tech questions Common Tech Terminology Experience & Role Specific Stakeholders
What are APIs? Read your resume well.
How do you get estimates What is CDN? Read the job description well. from engineers? How Youtube Works? Overview of company’s tech stack. Why Cache is faster? Your experiences. How do you create and Which APIs have you worked with? prioritize a product roadmap?
Explain for a kid or grandma Problem Solving
How do you address tech How would you explain a database to a kid? How would you improve the speed of a website? debt and bugs in a sprint? How would you explain API to your grandma? How would you measure the performance of In layman terms help me understand how a an API? How do you keep your payment gateway works. Write algorithm to calculate the estimated time developers motivated? to arrive at Swiggy. How to Practise How to Practise
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Resources
Pick Questions Glassdoor | AmbitionBox | Lewis Lin
