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Product Improvement:
What's your favorite Microsoft product and how would you improve it?
How would you improve Microsoft Teams?
What's your favorite product and why?
Improve the experience of moving to a new city.
How would you use VR to improve education?
How would you improve Slack?
How would you improve trust in the Bing search results for healthcare?
How would you improve the adoption of the Bing search engine in India?
How would you improve the search for charities on Bing?
What is that one product feature that would change the landscape of DevOps/GitOps?
How will you improve Google Maps in remote areas for non-tech-oriented people?
How would you increase user engagement on Microsoft OneDrive?
How would you improve Microsoft OneNote?
Suggest features to build better connections on Instagram.
Which is your favorite IOT product and what’s the future of IoT in the next 5 years?
What’s your most-used Microsoft product and is there anything you would like to suggest for improving it?
How would you detect fake news on Facebook?
What would you build to improve user retention on Microsoft Teams?
How would you approach personalizing MS Office?
How would you ensure real-time collaboration in a mobile version of MS Word?
As a Product Manager of Microsoft Outlook, how would you define its next version?
Product Design:
How would you go about designing a new location-sharing app for Google?
How would you design a product for improving teenage health?
Design an app for the California’s Department of Motor Vehicles
Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.
How will you go about personalizing MS Office?
Design a cell phone for a two-year-old.
Re-Design Microsoft Outlook.
How would you build Linkedin for freelancers?
Design a blender for the visually impaired.
Design a LinkedIn for blue-collar workers.
Design a cookbook app.
Design a security system for a hotel.
How would you design an Elevator?
Can you design a 3-button remote for any electrical device such as television?
Design an alarm clock for blind people.
Design a touchscreen table for restaurants.
Design a better navigation system for cyclists.
Design a version of Outlook for smartwatches.
You're Swiggy's (Indian food delivery app) PM, how would you go about designing & launching a product for restaurants?
There are a ton of applications targeting the music industry. However, there are still some gaps. Can you create something in this space that could be viable?
Design a smart whiteboard for an office.
How would you redesign a car dashboard?
Design a video game for a 5-year-old.
Design a bookshelf for kids.
How would you design a product for cyclists?
Design a refrigerator for kids
Redesign any app you do not like.
Design a photo app for the blind.
How would you design a vending machine for the airport?
How will you design a web service that enables other developers to create online chat applications?
Design a product to improve the lunch experience in XYZ company.
Design a fridge for a person in a wheelchair
Design a photo-sharing app for a visually impaired person.
Which apps do you use on your cellphone on a daily basis and why?
Design a Supermarket for older people.
How would you design a car-sharing platform like Uber for disabled people?
Design a product for job seekers to create resumes and find the best matching jobs easily and quickly.
How would you design a phone for kids aged less than 5 years?
Design Netflix for Senior Citizens (Goal: Increase engagement time).
Create an API design for third-party integration for payments.
Design an app for people who want to re-marry.
Suggest a new feature for a card game.
Design some time management or universal calendar kind of app.
Design a better way to find a roommate in a new city.
You are the PM of a Media Company. Your CEO asked you to create an app for the company's newspaper. What would you do?
You work in an ice cream shop and step into the back for a few minutes. You return and see a large group of people waiting. How would you serve them?
Design a door for the visually impaired.
You were a PM on Microsoft Surface and Delta asked you to design the perfect airline entertainment system. You decide the features, scenarios, and users. What would you do?
How would you design a Browser for children aged 7-14 years?
Design an online news service that provides curated news content that can be trusted by the masses.
How would you design a product that increases the consumption of fruit in the US?
Design a cell phone for children.
How would you develop a coffee machine product?
Design an email application for the blind.
You're a PM at a vending machine company. Your CEO asks of you to design a new line of vending machines to be placed at Hotels/Motels. What would you do?
How would you design & launch a TinyURL kind of product?
How will you design a mobile version of MS Word and ensure real-time collaboration within this app?
Design the security for a chat/messaging application.
Design Spotify for children.
Design a smart water bottle.
Design a system that can detect fraudulent use of Microsoft Word.
Explain the architecture of your current or past product in detail.
How would you make sure that search results on a search engine are relevant?
Improve the experience of a customer in a shoe store?
How would you design a cab service for the elderly?
Design a radio alarm clock for the next generation.
Design a product to compete with Slack.
How would you increase the usage of YouTube?
How would you design a food delivery app?
Using AI/ML, how can Amazon detect and prevent fraud done by retailers listed on the Amazon e-commerce website.
How would you design an automated car?
Design a microwave oven that could be used by everyone in the house.
How would you design a family-wide photo-sharing app? What about if someone in the family was vision impaired? Â
Design a wireless speaker system for Xbox.
Design a browser for children of the age group 7 to 14 years.Â
Build a crowd-sourced knowledge management portal.
In the growing age of working from home, what should Microsoft invest in to make this Work from Home more productive than it is today? This could be a new product line or enhancements to an existing product line for Microsoft to win in this new age of remote working.
Design a phone for someone who is visually impaired.
Design a product to help children who lost access to education in developing countries due to covid.
Suggest a new feature for a PUBG mobile game
How will you design to reduce the storage space of a mobile phone?
Design a solution for a family to have a safe digital experience.
Design a product for FB or Google to help people relocate.
How would you design a cafeteria app for employees?
Design a theme park in the US where the goal is to increase the user satisfaction of those who visit theme parks. How do you justify your design with metrics?
How would you design a hoverboard for youngsters? How would you determine its market fit?
How do you solve the traffic problem in Seattle?
Improve the lock screen experience of mobile phones and how you can justify the design with metrics.
How would you redesign the Microsoft Developer Network?
Design an AR app for college tours.
How would you design an airline entertainment system? What will the features target users?
Can you design a user interface for any music app you can think of?
How will you build a car-sharing app for disabled people similar to Uber?
Develop a product that allows job seekers to easily and efficiently create resumes and find the best matching jobs.
How would you design a competitive product for slack?
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Behavioural:
Tell me about yourself
Tell me about a product you managed from idea to launch.
What is a Product?
What is Product Management?
Who are Product Managers?
How would you explain this job profile to someone who doesn’t know a lot about it?
Tell me about a time you convinced someone to change their mind.
What do you know about Microsoft culture?
Tell me about a time you disagreed with engineering and what the outcome was.
Tell me about a time you have had to drive change.
Why did you choose product management as a career?
Tell me about your greatest success.
Talk about your toughest project. Improve it.
If there is an engineering team member who is not pulling as hard as the other teammates, what would you do as a PM?
One of our customers reported an issue with the .Net software in our open forum and threatened to switch to another platform. How would you handle this issue?
Tell me about one of the most complex projects you've been involved in.
Tell me about a time when you used data to influence/persuade people.
Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a team member or a manager.
Choose a product you have at home and tell us what feature you like about it.
How do you prioritize among competing features?
Tell me about a situation where things did not go as planned. What did you learn from it?
How would you motivate the team to stack hands around your idea?
Tell me about a time you've had to change the way you work.
Tell me about yourself and why do you think you should be hired for this job?
Why did you choose Microsoft specifically?
What methods do you use to determine what your customers want?
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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?
How would you explain calculus to a 5-year-old?
Tell us about your style of management.
Do you have a way of making people agree with your point of view?
Product Strategy:
Which channels would you use to increase top-of-the-funnel activities for Duolingo?
What are some alternative uses for chopsticks besides eating?
What should Microsoft Teams' product strategy be for the next 3 years?
Evolve a GTM strategy to acquire 1 million new users for Bing on Android.
If you were the CEO of Microsoft, how would you increase usage for Internet Explorer?
Imagine you’re PM at Bing. What would you do to take over 5% of the Google Search market share?
How would you prioritize Snapchat's strategy?
What steps will you take to increase the revenue of MS PowerPoint?
What are the considerations in making an apps marketplace for Microsoft Office Suite? What are the pros and cons of doing so?
What is a company that you're excited about? If you were the CEO, what would you do differently?
How can Microsoft compete with Chromebooks in the education space?
Decide product-market-fit for sticky post-its.
If you had to double the revenue of Uber Pool, how would you do it ?
Which is better — touchscreen or traditional dials and knobs for a car dash screen?
If you were the PM for the Windows phone, how would you make it successful?
You are a PM of Microsoft Edge. How will you identify the potential areas which can help to increase the market share of Edge?
How would you build a website from 0 to 1?
What is your take on recent talks about Microsoft acquiring TikTok US?
You're the PM for WhatsApp and you have $1B to invest. What would you do?
You are eating in your company cafeteria and someone taps you on your shoulder. It's your CEO asking you what the company should do next. What would you do?
Evaluate the upsides and downsides of building a super app — an app having all major B2C features including entertainment, e-commerce, food ordering, hotel booking, cab booking, chat, holiday planning, gaming, med ordering, service booking, etc.
Examine the benefits and drawbacks of creating a mega app, which includes entertainment, e-commerce, food ordering, hotel booking, cab booking, chat, holiday planning, gaming, med ordering, service booking, and other B2C functions.
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Guess Estimation:
How many balls does it take to fill a 16x16 ft room?
Estimate the market size of Microsoft Teams.
How would you increase the revenue of MS Powerpoint?
Estimate the weight of an airplane. How would you go about calculating it?
What is the revenue of Bing?
How much storage space do you need to store all the information from Google maps?
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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 the Number of Tennis balls you can fit in an Aircraft
Estimate the Number of Refrigerators sold in India every year
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Estimate the storage space is required to host all the images of Google Street View
Product Metrics:
How would you measure the success of Messenger Rooms?
What metrics will you use to assess Microsoft Outlook's success?
On the basis of which metrics would you measure the success of Microsoft Office?
You notice a spike in the number of user-uploaded videos on your platform in June. What do you think is the cause, and how would you test it?
Share with us how you measure the success of any event?
How would you evaluate the success of Reactions on Facebook?
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What success metrics would you use to measure a payment gateway product?
Problem Solving:
Bing daily search traffic went down 5%; how would you diagnose what happened?
Teams weekly active users decreased 10%. What do you do?
How will you identify the decline in usage of Azure?
In case the daily average users (DAU) of Office 365 go down by 5%, how would you investigate this?
Pick any favorite product of your choice. Find anyone functionality you find missing in the same product which would make life simpler.
How will you double the Uber Pool revenue?
Your supplier has said delivery will be delayed, so you can’t ship Surface hardware in time to hit a customer’s deadline. How do you respond?
You work for Azure, and Spain is considering a law that would enforce strict data privacy in the country. What do you do?
You are a PM for LinkedIn Trust Team. A number of senior influencers at LinkedIn have complained that they receive innumerable spam connection requests and they threaten to leave the platform or launch a tirade against LinkedIn. What do you do?
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What would you do if there is a High Acquisition but Low Retention?
Product Launch:
What will be the strategy to launch a product that already captured around 70-80% of the students market? The catch is "As the students are graduating, new students are also coming in." Take an online furniture rental company for reference.
Microsoft is thinking of launching a premium color version of the Surface Pro tablet. How would you quantify the benefits of this service?
How would you go about launching a "video message" functionality in a communication app that gets used by over 100 million users?
Technical:
How does Bing Search rank search results?
How does TinyURL work? [FREE]
Explain the architecture of your current or past product in detail.
Design a product to facilitate college students in a dorm to befriend each other. Layout the architecture and database schema.
Write a program for monitoring a patient’s heartbeat and calculating the average over the last 10 detections.
Build a system for a single person. What happens if 100 people try to use the service locally? What if it's used by a million people all over the world?
What is the difference between C++ and Java?
How would you design the APIs behind Office Online? How would they interact?
Explain APIs to a five-year-old.
How would you implement the backend behind Teams or another messaging app?
Teach my grandma how collaborative filtering works.
How would you differentiate between C and Java?
Describe how you would design a method that removes every other node from a linked list.
Explain to us the working of the internet.
You are provided with a team of 20 engineers and 4 data scientists. If you are given a time of 6 months to come up with a new product, what would that be? How far do you think you will be able to work on it in 6 months?
Describe Agile methodologies
Describe the Internet to your grandparent.
Design an algorithm for recommending connections to LinkedIn users.
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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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? [FREE]
How much storage space do you need to store all the information from Google maps?
Estimate the Number of WhatsApp Chats occurring in India [FREE]
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 the Number of Tennis balls you can fit in an Aircraft
Estimate the Number of Refrigerators sold in India every year
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Estimate the storage space is required to host all the images of Google Street View
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