200+ Behavioral Interview Questions and Detailed Answers - PM Interview
200+ Behavioral Interview Questions and Detailed Answers - PM Interview
Here is the complete list of all Behavioral Questions & Answers asked during Product Management Interviews.
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What's the one thing that excites you the most about 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?
How would you keep developers in your team motivated to turn out quality work?
Tell me about a time you had to make a decision to make short-term sacrifices for long-term gains.
How will you manage a team where team members are more experienced than you?
Which apps do you use on your cellphone on a daily basis and why?
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List the products that you have worked on. Be as specific as possible (was it a line of business, a feature, etc).
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.
How do you deal/meet/talk with B2B (clients) and B2C (consumer)?
How do you work with qualitative data/requirements(e.g. B2B) and Quantitative data(e.g. B2C)?
How do you derive insights?
How do you cut corners to get the product in the market?
How do you deal with sales/business people? What problems do you face and how do you go about it?
How did you earn trust or jell with the people of the team? How did you go about it?
Describe your relationship with your manager?
Who do you think is accountable and responsible for a product?
What are the things you hate doing as a product manager and how do you go about it?
What are the current revenue sources of your/our product? How can you further increase it?
What is the 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)
What's your typical day, fortnight, and month like? How do you plan it?
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?)
How often you speak to your customers/prospects? Give us a few insights you got from customers that contradicted your perception!
Pick an app that you use regularly and identify a user journey in it that can be improved.
Tell me about a time when you challenged the status quo?
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?
How passionately do you fight and argue?
You're CEO. How would you defeat your competitor whose CEO thinks exactly like you?
What is the toughest product problem you have faced to date?
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?
How will you explain your digital product subscription who is already getting your competition subscription Rs 100 cheaper per month?
Will you buy your own product and why?
Which product do you hate and why? What would you do to make it better?
Tell me about a time you had to kill a feature. How did you kill it?
What is your experience with shutting down a product or service? What are the key challenges in an end-of-life (EOL) process?
What is your favorite digital and non-digital product and why?
What is more important tech or marketing?
What is the best insight you learned last week?
How often you meet end-users in person?
You are given a million dollars by a trusted friend and asked to go build something of value. What do you build?
You have managed to break into an evil organization and have complete access to all of their resources. What would you do?
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.
You are the PM and need to develop a product feature that the engineering team says they need 4 weeks to develop. However, the stakeholders have only two weeks to implement this feature. What would you do to solve the timing issue?
How do you make tradeoffs between intuition and empirical data?
How have you had to deal with customer expectations in the past?
Tell me about a time when you worked on a critical project under tight deadline. What did you sacrifice to achieve it? How did you overcome challenges? What were the short-term and long-term impacts of this project?
Tell me about a time when you challenged the status quo. How did you manage to change? What challenges did you face while changing? What were the outcomes? What would have you done better?
How would you prioritize tasks for the Spotify recommendation engine team?
You are asked to do customer research to launch a new feature that helps streamline the process for Uber drivers picking up people from large events (concerts, games, etc.). Walk us through how you would prepare a report.
What excited you about this role?
How would you influence the partner teams to make the right decision when you don't have supporting data?
What project management tools did you work with?
Tell me about a time when you received harsh feedback. How did you react?
Describe a time when a co-worker or direct report acted inappropriately and how you responded.
Why do you want to join Shopify?
Why do you want to join Square?
Why do you want to work for Amazon?
Describe a situation when you were faced with an ethical decision.
What would you say as your achievements in your current role?
Why should I hire you for this role?
What was the biggest challenge you experienced from working with banks? How did you go about convincing them?
If the legal team reached to you with a difficult request, what is your method for tackling it?
What makes a great product?
What is your product management approach? How do you set goals?
What makes you a good product manager candidate?
What would be a deal-breaker (in a role) for you?
What's the most interesting/impactful project you have done?
How do you communicate with engineers?
Tell me what thing you are good at and don't want to do any more.
Tell me about your most significant accomplishment. Why was it significant?
How will you provide the estimate to customers/users when you do not have much details about the requirements?
Tell me about a time when you changed the direction of a team.
What will the payment industry look like in 3 to 5 years?
What would you say as your achievements in your current role?
What is the most innovative thing you've done?
How did you align a stakeholder towards a common goal?
Tell me about a time you had a conflict understanding client requirements and how you managed it.
How do you prioritize given a limited bandwidth of resources?
How do you prioritize tech debt against other features?
Tell me about a time you had to deal with tech debt. What approach did you take?
How would you manage a sudden shift in priorities?
Talk about a time when someone didn't complete the task that you wanted them to do.
Tell me about a time when you had an idea you proposed was not agreed on.
How would you prioritize tasks when you have no data?
What product is successful but bad?
Tell me about a time when you had to deep dive and dig data to solve a problem.
Tell me of a time when a technical decision you took fell apart.
What methods would you use to gather feedback about your product?
Was there a time when you disagreed with the manager's decision? How did it play out, and what happened in the end?
What is the most challenging project you have been on?
How did you handle communicating with various types of stakeholders on a project you recently ran and what did you find most effective?
As a PM, who is your most favorite team to work with and why?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Describe a complex topic like I'm a high school student. Assume I don't know anything about it.
Tell me a time when you influenced engineering to build a particular feature.
Senior client calls you early morning to complain that the B2B product is not working (without providing any details). How would you approach this? (include technical details if applicable)
Why should Amazon not hire you?
You are a PM and you are about to enter the product launch meeting with all stakeholders. How would you prepare for that meeting?
If there are 3 different items on top priority for a release and the client is insisting on getting all 3 delivered in the same release. As a PM you know there is not enough engineering capacity. What will you do?
How would you keep developers working on a product motivated and turning out quality work?
Describe the most significant, continuous improvement project that you’ve led. What was the catalyst for this change and how did you go about it?
Your Engineering Manager wants to work on a new feature and you absolutely have no bandwidth. How will you handle it?
How do you motivate a Product team?
Tell me about a time when you made a product or process simpler for your customers that had a significant impact.
How would you define Success?
Tell me about a time you've had to change the way you work.
Tell us about a time you had an idea that your team was skeptical about. How did you convince your team that you were right?
Tell me a time that you were half way meeting your goal but you had to pivot because you found the goal might not be right.
Some companies don't think they need PMs. Even Google didn't have one for a while. They think they don't need them. What's your opinion?
How would you make something significantly simpler for a customer?
Tell me about a time when you had to manage upwards (that is, you had to manage and align stakeholders with higher titles than you to get things done).
Have you ever disagreed with your Engineering counterparts? What did you do when a build decision was made that did not align with the original vision you had?
How do you deal with engineering challenges at your current job?
How will you communicate to your team that you had made a mistake? What would be your steps to do so?
Tell me about a time when you faced a problem that had multiple possible solutions.
What kind of project would you like to work with?
What is your superpower as a product manager?
Tell me about a time when you proactively identified an issue that would impact your team. How did you solve it?
Tell us about a situation where you had to earn the trust of the group to forge a path forward.
How would you put together a team?
How would you handle a situation between a few workers relating to a power they believe they hold over minorities in the work place?
How would you motivate the team to stack hands around your idea?
Provide an example of when you had to analyze a large amount of data and what insights you were able to come up with.
Tell me a time when you had to challenge a teammate's unpopular opinion.
Give an example of a mission or goal you didn't think was achievable. What was it and how did you help your team try to achieve it? Were you successful in the end?
Can you give us a few examples where you have planned and conducted A/B tests?
Can you give me an example where you made changes to your app based on user feedback?
Tell me about a time when you didn't have enough data to make the right decision. What did you do? What path did you take? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one?
Tell me about a time when you used data to reach a conclusion.
Can you tell me about a time where you had to deal with customer complaints?
Tell me a time when you had to mend your relationship with a colleague.
What is an example of asking 5 whys to a customer?
Who was your most difficult customer? How did you handle them?
What would you do to make sure Facebook employees do not feel lonely?
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with ambiguity.
How do you know if your users are satisfied with your product?
Describe a difficult technical concept to me.
How do you deal with a person who believes in Orthodoxy and does not believe in metrics or feature validation?
How would you handle HIPPO situation and how would your resolve feature conflicts between two HIPPOS?
Can you provide an example where you took a product from inception to launch? Can you also talk about some of the challenges that you faced while implementing this product?
What was High School like for you?
Tell me about a time when you were given a project without all necessary tools.
How did you turn an adversary into a confidant?
Instagram executives had a strategy meeting. They decided to pursue something in the area of education. You've been chosen as the PM to lead the effort. What do you do?
Tell me a piece of difficult feedback you received and how you handled it.
Tell me about a time you built something from 0 to 1.
What do engineers need/expect from a product manager?
What is your proudest moment as a product manager?
Tell me about a time when you couldn't meet your deadline.
How do you work with Marketing?
How do you work with Designers?
What do you do when you get a vague feature request?
Tell me about a time you had to change a KPI.
Tell me about a time when you had limited resources , however were faced with 2 urgent time bound deliverables. Which one did you build and why?(Walk me through the steps of the problem solving, prioritization and stakeholder mgmt)
Tell me about a time you received a constructive feedback from your Manager
Describe a time when you faced an obstacle during a build. How did you ensure you were still able to hit your milestones? Did you have to break down feature requests?
Describe a product/feature that you worked on from ideation to delivery.
What is your major weakness or area to improve?
How would you minimize risk when building a product?
What if before product launch, the director of engineering tells you that due to technical complexities, the development of the feature would significantly delay the launch of the product. As a PM, what will you do?
Tell me about a time you built a product roadmap.
The product manager is the most influential entity in an organization. What do you think about that statement?
What are your 3 greatest accomplishments?
How many launches have you supported? Which has been your most difficult one?
Give me an example where you pushed back on your client/business on adding a feature.
If you were to give a ted talk, what would your topic be?
What do you think is the most important part of being a Product Manager?
How do you prioritize Sales needs vs Engineering needs?
Your Engineering lead and UX lead disagree on the approach for your P0 quarterly item. How would you approach the situation?
List two traits of a successful PM. How do you rank against those?
Tell me about a time you had to manage stakeholders and manage risks.
Tell me about a product you love, but you can't get any of your friends to adopt.
How do you know as a PM that you have enough data to make decisions?
What is the hardest decision you ever had to make as a PM?
What advice would you give to someone new to PM about what is important for a PM
Describe for me a time where you had to do research to create a product or service.
Tell me about a time when the team was operating slowly. What did you do to fix it?
How do you prioritize among competing features?
Tell me about a time when you didn't get along with a coworker. How did you deal with it?
Give me an example where you negotiated for resources that are not in your control.
Tell me about a situation where things did not go as planned. What did you learn from it?
You need to pitch a new feature to executives and stakeholders. How would you do it?
Suppose a stakeholder wants you to add a new feature to your roadmap and you think that it should not be implemented. How would you convince them to drop it?
Tell me about a time you failed as a product manager.
What product would you build if I were to write a blank check for an idea you have?
How do you check progress against your goals?
Tell me about a creative solution you came up with.
What leadership principles do you relate to the most?
Describe your ability to deal with a very opinionated co-worker.
How did you prepare for this interview?
Tell me about a time when you didn’t win during a negotiation with your stakeholders.
How do you work with your teams?
Tell me about a time when you worked on a project and realized that there is more potential in it that you thought initially.
Tell me about a time when you got creative. Why did you go for that solution? What was the motivation? How did your stakeholders react?
Tell me about a time when you made a decision that was not data-driven. What is something that you could've changed to make that decision?
Tell me about a time when you had to make a trade-off between a deadline and standards. And would you do it again the same way? Why or why not?
Tell me a time when you designed a product feature that didn't go well. And how did you overcome that situation?
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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