Priceline - Product Manager Interview Experience

Product Manager Interview Experience at Priceline

My PM Interview

Jun 12, 2021

Company Name - Priceline

Interview Month - June 2021

Position - Product Manager.

Job Location - Mumbai, India.

Total Number of Interview Rounds - 3

Interview Round 1: (90 mins)

Interviewer: Senior Product Manager

The interview started with My self-introduction.
(Roles and Responsibilities at my current organization, Past Work Experiences, Education, Location, etc.)
Tell me about a product or feature that you worked on end-to-end at your current company.
What was the problem and how did you go about solving it.
Who are your different stakeholders?
Do you have any experience with AB testing? Can you walk me through your last AB Test experiment?
How do you gather requirements and ideate them?
How do you prioritize between different features?
How do you make decisions if there is no data?
Tell me about a time when you failed at a project.
Why leave your current company & why do you want to join Priceline.
What do you think is the USP of Priceline?
Do you have any questions for me?

Interview Round 2:

Assignment Round (48 hrs)

Assignment Details:

You are an App PM for a food ordering service (ex: Zomato, Swiggy) which has both a website and a native app. You have thousands of restaurants on your platform in all key markets.

With the recent lockdown and economic crisis, customer needs and behaviors are evolving when it comes to ordering food from restaurants. While consumers are more likely to order takeout than dine at a restaurant, they are also more cost-conscious and more aware of health and safety than they may have been in the past.

You are one of a few big players in the space and you have meaningful overlap between which restaurants are available on each platform, so you need to find other ways to build a competitive advantage.

Your mission is to come up with 3-5 product features, capabilities, or experiments to encourage today’s consumers to order their takeout with your app versus one of your competitors.

Be prepared to consider the following questions:

● What type of data would you need to inform and validate your suggestions?

● How would you measure the success of the features you suggest?

● How would you prioritize which suggestion you would implement first?

● What sort of app-specific capabilities could you utilize to create a solution that would be stronger on the app than on your website?

● For the bigger ideas, what does an MVP or proof of concept look like to test this out before fully investing?

Interview Round 3:

Assignment Discussion (60 mins)

Interviewers: Senior Product Manager & Product Designer

After I explained my approach and walk through the solution of the assignment, the following questions were asked,

Pick one solution and explain how the MVP would look like?
What metrics would you track to understand its success? and Why?
How would you design the A/B test for this solution?
How do you gather requirements and ideate them?
How much experience do you have with A/B testing? Can you walk me through your last AB Test experiment?
How do you manage conflicts in your team?
How do you prioritize features?
Do you have any questions for us?