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What are some of the best interview questions for hiring a product manager? And how to answer them?

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Here is the ultimate list of questions and answers you can expect to be asked in a Product Management interview. Get ready to nail the interview!


To help you with your Product Manager interview preparations, we have compiled a complete list of the most asked Product Management Interview Questions and Answers at companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, etc. answered by PMs at FAANG.

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  1. Product Improvement

    • How to answer Product Improvement Questions? [FREE]

    • Product Improvement Questions: 6 Things to Remember while Answering [FREE]

    • How would you improve YouTube?

    • How would you improve Facebook Birthdays?

    • How would you improve Gmail?

    • How would you improve LinkedIn? [FREE]

    • How would you improve Grammarly?

    • How would you improve Google Maps? [~FREE]

    • How would you improve WhatsApp?

    • How would you improve Facebook Stories?

    • How would you improve usage of Facebook Groups?

    • How would you improve Yelp?

    • List of all Product Improvement Questions and Answers

  2. Product Design

    • How to Answer Product Design Questions?

    • How would you solve Dog Poop problem?

    • How would you go about designing a new location-sharing app for Google?

    • How would you design a bookshelf for children?

    • Is there a user that is not well served by Amazon.com?

    • Design an ATM for the Blind

    • Design Facebook Movies

    • Design a Vending Machine for the Blind people

    • Design an app for the California’s Department of Motor Vehicles

    • Design and Monetize an ice-cream stand in Central Park

    • Design Netflix for Senior Citizens

    • Design a product to improve Teenage Health

    • How to easily come up with User Pain Points?

    • How to easily Segment Users?

    • How would you critique a product’s design?

    • Common Mistakes in Answering Product Design Questions [~FREE]

    • List of all Product Design Questions and Answers

  3. Behavioral

    • How to Answer Behavioral Interview Screening Questions? [FREE]

    • Describe your day-to-day activities as a Product Manager [FREE]

    • Behavioral Interview Questions - Storytelling Framework [FREE]

    • Why do you want to leave your current company?

    • Why do you want to join our company?

    • What are you looking for in your next role?

    • How do you know a product is well-designed?

    • What's the one thing that excites you the most about Product Management?

    • What is your least favorite aspect of product management?

    • How do you take product decisions involving multiple stakeholders with consent?

    • How do you use research & data to guide your day-to-day decisions?

    • What tools do you use in your day-to-day activities as a Product Manager?

    • Which type of people do you like to work with?

    • Do you have any questions for me?

    • How do you manage conflicts in your team? [FREE]

    • What is your biggest failure as a Product Manager? [FREE]

    • How would you keep developers in your team motivated to turn out quality work?

    • What are your Strengths and Weaknesses?

    • Tell me about a time you had to make a decision to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.

    • How do you say NO to a feature/functionality?

    • How will you manage a team where team members are more experienced than you?

    • How would you Earn the Trust of a Group?

    • How do you define a Good PM vs. a Bad PM?

    • Why did you choose to become a Product Manager? [FREE]

    • How would you maintain timelines as a Product Manager? [FREE]

    • Why are you a good fit for a Product Manager role and How does this role fit in your long-term goals? [FREE]

    • How do you keep yourself updated with Product Management? [FREE]

    • How will you manage a team where team members are more experienced than you and hence don’t respect you? [FREE]

    • How do you Prioritize your Work as a Product Manager?

    • Which apps do you use on your cellphone on a daily basis and why? [FREE]

  4. Estimation

    • How to Answer Estimation Questions?

    • Estimate the Number of ATMs in India [FREE]

    • Estimate the total number of Airplanes in Air [FREE]

    • Estimate the Total number of Videos on YouTube

    • Estimate Google AdSense revenue

    • Estimate Mobile Ad Revenue for Facebook

    • How much storage space do you need to store all the information from Google maps?

    • Estimate the Number of Self-Driving Cars

    • Estimation: How much do Gmail users cost Google?

    • Estimate the Weight of the Empire State Building

    • Estimate the Number of WhatsApp Chats occurring in India [FREE]

    • Estimate the Detergent usage in India per Day

    • Estimate the Number of Mobile Phones Sold in India annually

    • Estimate the Number of Hours spent on Smart Phones by all Indians

    • Estimate the Number of Golf balls that can fit in a School Bus

    • Estimate Airbnb's Revenue

    • Estimate the Area of India

    • Estimate the Number of Red Color Swift Cars in Delhi

    • Estimate the Number of Tennis balls you can fit in an Aircraft

    • Estimate the Total Length of Roads in your City

    • Estimate the Market Size of Disposable Diapers in India

    • Estimate the Number of Refrigerators sold in India every year

    • How much does a Salon owner make in India?

    • How many dentists are there in New York?

    • Estimate the storage space is required to host all the images of Google Street View

    • Estimate the total number of Uber Rides

    • Estimate the Number of Queries Answered by Google per Second

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Estimation Questions

  5. Product Metrics

    • How to Answer Product Metrics Questions?

    • How would you measure the success of Lyft Shuttle?

    • How would you evaluate the success of Reactions on Facebook?

    • How would you evaluate the success of Instagram Stories? [FREE]

    • How would you set goals for Facebook Events?

    • How would you measure the success of Gmail?

    • How would you measure the success of Amazon Echo?

    • How would you measure the success of Facebook Stories?

    • Success Metrics for Airbnb’s Experiences feature

    • How would you evaluate the success of Instagram Ads?

    • How would you evaluate the success of a Payment Gateway Product?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Product Metrics Questions

  6. Product Pricing

    • How to Answer Product Pricing Questions?

    • How would you price an Apple Home device?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Product Pricing Questions

  7. PM Interview Experiences

    • Facebook - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Microsoft - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Amazon - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Google - Product Manager Interview Questions 1 [FREE]

    • Google - Product Manager Interview Questions 2 [FREE]

    • LinkedIn - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Uber - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Lyft - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Spotify - Product Manager Interview Questions [FREE]

    • Junglee Games - Product Manager Interview Experience. [FREE]

    • UpGrad - Product Manager Interview Experience.

    • Vedantu - Product Manager Interview Experience.

    • CarDekho - Product Manager Interview Experience.

    • Priceline - Product Manager Interview Experience.

    • Flipkart - Product Manager Interview Experience.

    • Nykaa - Product Manager Interview Experience.

    • Uber - Product Manager Interview Experience.

  8. Product Launch

    • How to Answer Product Launch Questions? [FREE]

    • How would you launch Lyft in India?

    • How would you launch Google’s driverless car service?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Product Launch Questions

  9. PM Technical Interview

    • How to Answer Product Manager Technical Interview Questions?

    • What happens when you type a URL in the browser?

    • How does TinyURL work?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Product Manager Technical Questions

  10. A/B Testing

    • What A/B tests would you run to increase the number of messages sent and received on WhatsApp?

    • Decide between displaying Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’ or an Advertisement?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering AB Testing Questions

  11. Product Execution

    • How to Answer Problem Solving Questions?

    • Product Execution: Decline in TikTok Usage

    • Product Execution - Decline in Flipkart's Cart Additions

    • Product Execution: Uber Product Manager Interview - Increase in Cancel Rates

    • Problem Execution - Decline in Facebook Groups Usage

    • Drop in Netflix's Key Metric

    • What would you do if there is a High Acquisition but Low Retention?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Product Manager Problem-Solving Questions

    • How to Answer All Types of Product Execution Questions?

  12. Product Roadmap

    • How to Answer Product Roadmap Questions?

    • How would you prioritize new product features for Facebook?

    • Product Roadmap: Micro-Tragedy in Ride-Sharing App

  13. Product Strategy

    • Which channels would you use to increase top-of-the-funnel activities for Duolingo?

    • Should Facebook consider getting into the Travel industry?

    • How would you launch Facebook's Dating Platform?

    • Should Facebook consolidate its messaging apps?

    • What are some alternative uses for chopsticks besides eating?

    • Common Mistakes to avoid while Answering Product Strategy Questions

  14. Product Trade-off

    • How to Answer Product Tradeoff Questions?

    • Decide between displaying Facebook’s ‘People You May Know’ or an Advertisement?

  15. Google Product Manager Interview [FREE]

    • Google Product Manager Interview Guide 1

    • Google Product Manager Interview Guide 2

    • Google Product Manager Interview Guide 3

    • Google - Product Manager Interview Questions 1

    • Google - Product Manager Interview Questions 2

  16. Facebook Product Manager Interview [FREE]

    • Facebook Product Manager Interview Guide - Part 1

    • Facebook Product Manager Interview Guide - Part 2

    • Facebook - Product Manager Interview Questions

  17. Business Case Studies [FREE]

    • BharatPe's Billion $ Business Strategy

    • Spotify vs Apple Music vs YouTube Music War

    • IKEA's Billion $ Pricing Strategy

    • ZARA's Billion $ Business Strategy

    • Airtel-Jio Rivalry: How Airtel is beating Reliance Jio?

    • Walmart - The Billion $ Empire

    • Amul's Strategy during the Pandemic

    • Will Netflix survive the competition?

  18. Frameworks for Structured Product Thinking [FREE]

  19. 106 Principles of Product Design Psychology

  20. Mission Statements of Top Tech Companies [FREE]

  21. What's the one thing that excites you the most about this role?
    [Answer]

  22. What are some of the frameworks you usually follow?
    [Check out the entire framework list here]

  23. How do you know a product is well-designed?
    [Answer]

  24. How do you take product decisions involving multiple stakeholders?
    [Answer]

  25. How do you use research & data to guide your day-to-day decisions?
    [Answer]

  26. What tools do you use in your day-to-day activities as a Product Manager?
    [Answer]

  27. Which type of people do you like to work with?
    [Answer]

  28. Do you have any questions for me?
    [Answer]

  29. How do you manage conflicts in your team?
    [Answer]

  30. What is your least favorite aspect of product management?
    [Answer]

  31. How would you keep developers in your team motivated to turn out quality work?
    [Answer]

  32. What are your Strengths and Weaknesses?
    [Answer]

  33. How do you say NO to a feature/functionality?
    [Answer]

  34. Why do you want to join our company?
    [Answer]

  35. How do you deal with Low Performing Employees?
    [Answer]

  36. How do you Prioritize your Work?
    [Answer]

  37. How do you work with Engineering Team?
    [Answer]

  38. How would you Earn the Trust of a Group?
    [Answer]

  39. How does this role fit in your long-term goals and why are you a good fit for this role?

  40. List the products that you have worked on. Be as specific as possible (was it a line of business, a feature, etc).

  41. Tell us about the largest commercial project or feature that you’ve managed/been a part of from start to finish. Tell us about why you built it, how you built it, and if it was successful, and how you knew.



    Related: Useful Data to remember while solving Estimation Problems


  42. How do you deal/meet/talk with B2B (clients) and B2C (consumer)?

  43. How do you make sure to maintain timelines?

  44. How do you work with qualitative data/requirements(e.g. B2B) and Quantitative data(e.g. B2C)?

  45. How do you derive insights?

  46. How do you cut corners to get the product in the market?

  47. How do you deal with sales/business people? What problems do you face and how do you go about it?

  48. How did you earn trust or jell with the people of the team? How did you go about it?

  49. Describe your relationship with your manager?

  50. Who do you think is accountable and responsible for a product?

  51. What are the things you hate doing as a product manager and how do you go about it?

  52. What are the current revenue sources of your/our product? How can you further increase it?

  53. What is that one thing that you noticed in an app that is actually a feature but is not usually noticed by a common user? (eye for details)

  54. What's your typical day, fortnight, and month like? How do you plan it?

  55. Why did you choose to become a Product Manager?

  56. Given user feedback on any well-known product, how will you take it forward? (do they dive into feature dev lifecycle or spend time in hypo testing/data value etc?)

  57. How often you speak to your customers/prospects? Give us a few insights you got from customers that contradicted your perception!

  58. Pick an app that you use regularly and identify a user journey in it that can be improved.

  59. What’s your/your product’s past biggest failure and its the reason? And what did you do after that?

  60. Tell me about a time when you challenged the status quo?

  61. Tell me about a product you don't like and why it's working anyway? And would your changes move the needle? And then why it's likely those changes haven't been made already?

  62. How passionately do you fight and argue?

  63. What product you do like and why?

  64. What 3 things would you improve about a product you currently use and why?

  65. If you were given to make a product out of Swach Bharat, what will it be and why?

  66. You're CEO. How would you defeat your competitor whose CEO thinks exactly like you?

  67. What is the toughest product problem you have faced to date?

  68. What is an example of a situation where your idea/work failed? What did you learn so that you don't make the same mistake today?

  69. How will you explain your digital product subscription who is already getting your competition subscription Rs 100 cheaper per month?

  70. Mention as one tech invention product which you can relate to yourself or your life and describe why?

  71. Will you buy your own product and why?

  72. Which product do you hate and why? What would you do to make it better?

  73. How would you decide to kill a feature?

  74. What is your experience with shutting down a product or service? What are the key challenges in an end-of-life (EOL) process?

  75. What is your favorite digital and non-digital product and why?

  76. What is more important tech or marketing?


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  77. What is the best insight you learned last week?

  78. How often you meet end-users in person?

  79. What do you think our product is about?

  80. You are given a million dollars by a trusted friend and asked to go build something of value. What do you build?

  81. You have managed to break into an evil organization and have complete access to all of their resources. What would you do?

  82. A genie appears before you and gives you EXACTLY one wish. What would you ask for?

  83. If the internet was to be rebuilt, what is the one change you would like to see?

  84. When we get to 2025 and you look back at your life, what is the ONE thing you don’t want to regret?

  85. Tell us about something you've accomplished that you are really proud of, and why you are proud of it.

  86. What is one unique quality you have that enables you to stand out in a crowd? Pls, share a real-world example where this quality came to the fore so we can relate.

  87. The famous Peter Thiel question - tell us about something that you believe is true but almost nobody agrees with you on. It really has to be something that almost nobody agrees with you on.

  88. Identify a problem that your mother or Grandmother is facing in her day today life, define a product for that problem and then sell that product to her.

  89. If you were in charge of evolution, what would your human look like and why?

  90. How will you deal with our biggest client, who was your batchmate and hated you?

  91. What are some of the best interview questions for hiring a product manager?

  92. How would you redesign the luggage delivery system at the airport?

  93. Design a customer survey and the ability to identify false positives and false negatives?

  94. If you were not a product manager what would you be?

  95. How do you define a product?

  96. How not to sell a product?

  97. I write a word or two on a piece of paper and tell them to guess the words. I give them 10 questions. The good ones always solve it in 5 to 7 questions.

  98. What kind of a product problem excites and comes to you naturally: growth hacking, a consumer wow creation, or a platform building?

  99. What are some things you challenge your engineers and designers with?

  100. When should you ignore customer feedback data?

  101. What are some of the counterintuitive truths you learned while working on your last product?

  102. How do you define success for yourself as a PM?

  103. Improve the Google homepage.

  104. What fruit would you be? Why?

  105. How would you redesign a hotel check-in and room experience? What would be your 24-hour customer journey from the time he OR she entered the hotel.

  106. Come up with 3 features to drive X. You have resources to build only 1. Prioritize. Now convince your team to build 2 in the same amount of time.


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  107. Tell me a product that you find difficult to use. How will you change it?

  108. MOOCs have a very low completion rate. It impacts business. How can you improve this?

  109. How do you judge product feature priorities?

  110. How will you define success metrics for a product?

  111. Create 10 survey questions related to the product that you plan to create.

  112. What are the challenges you faced in the PM role and How do you survive the product management role challenges?

  113. Describe a situation on how you handled conflict.

  114. Which physical product did you come across recently that delighted you and why?

  115. What were the assumptions you made in your last few products, what failed, what worked?

  116. Why are manholes round? If it were up to you what other shapes should it have been and why?

  117. Tell me about the first big decision you took in your life? What, Why, and Consequences (if any)?

  118. What was the hardest decision you had to make as a product manager? How did you handle it?

  119. What are the identifiable differences between a project manager and a product manager?

  120. Product managers will often have to manage personnel issues or conflicts. Can you describe a time where you had to deal with a personnel issue?

  121. How did you define success metrics for your product?

  122. Have you ever been in a situation where your team has let you down and you’ve had to take the blame?

  123. What was your most successful product as a product manager?

  124. How do you define market opportunities in a business plan?

  125. What is the Gartner Magic Quadrant, and why is it important for many software vendors?

  126. How do you gain credibility from the development/engineering teams as a new product manager?

  127. What are the important elements of competitive analysis?

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