PM Interview

Question 1

Tell us about a tough decision you made that impacted either the timeline or the scope of a project. What was the reasoning behind this decision? What exactly did you do? What was the ultimate result?

Question 2

How would you go about turning broad problem areas (e.g. “X product needs better reporting”) into more concrete and actionable solutions in the product? Here we’re interested in what process you’d apply to get to product solutions, rather than any specific ideas for a solution

Question 3

Choose an app or product that you use regularly and elaborate on 1 or 2 specific ideas you have for a new feature (or how to improve an existing feature.)

Question 4

How do you manage time

Question 5

Reason for leaving current position

Answer 5

• Get more in contact with user, get a more high level view of the product development since I’m still very much on the ground developing in my current role, though I am looking to stay in close contact with engineering — what I love about product management is it encompasses all these areas of design, dev, business that interest me so much.

Question 6

Estimate the number of restaurants in San Francisco (Estimation questions)

Question 7

What does a product manager do/What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

Question 8

Do you have any personal experience working in the restaurant or hospitality industry?

Question 9

What are some of the unique challenges facing restaurant operators in terms of data utilization and technology adoption?

Question 10

How do you utilize data and user research to inform your product decisions?

Question 11

Do you have any ideas for innovative product features or solutions that address specific pain points in the hospitality sector?

Question 12

Briefly walk me through your experience with the product lifecycle, from ideation to launch to post-launch monitoring.

Question 13

Can you describe your experience with Agile methodologies and scrum?

Question 14

How do you approach prioritizing a backlog and ensuring you’re building the right features first?

Question 15

Describe your leadership style and how you would encourage innovation within your team.

Question 16

How would you define success for a product aimed at restaurant operators?

Question 17

How do you build trust and rapport with cross-functional teams, particularly engineers and customer support?

Question 18

How would you prioritize and balance the needs of different stakeholders, such as restaurant operators, data providers, and internal teams?

Question 19

What metrics would you use to measure the impact of a new product feature or initiative?

Question 20

Can you share an example of a time you had to make a difficult product decision with limited information?

Question 21

How would you approach scaling the Avero product to accommodate future growth?

Question 22

Can you share an example of a time you successfully navigated a conflict between team members or stakeholders?

Question 23

How do you stay informed about industry trends and best practices in product management?

Question 24

Why do you want this job, and how does it fit your overall career trajectory?

Question 25

How do you determine what customers want and need?

Question 26

Tell me about a time you had trouble building consensus and how you overcame it.

Question 27

How would you prioritize these four things / What’s your approach to prioritizing tasks?

Question 28

What’s your biggest failure as a product manager, and why did it happen?

Question 29

What’s a challenge you had to overcome?

Question 30

Tell me about a product that you worked on from start to finish
-What did you do, what was the impact, what were the results

Question 31

How do you communicate your product strategy?

Question 32

What will you do in the first 90 days if we hire you?

Question 33

What KPIs do you use to measure success in your role?

Question 34

How do you collaborate with different stakeholders? Can you share an example of a time you led a team or project?

Question 35

What do you know about the hospitality & F&B data space?

Question 36

What are your impressions of our company and product?

Question 37

How would you approach achieving the goals of this product or team?

Question 38

What challenges do you see, and how would you address them?

Question 39

How do you stay user-focused?

Question 40

What main changes would you make to Avero?

Question 41

Tell us about a time a feature or product had poor adoption - how did you know? What did you do?

Question 42

Which product have you led in the past and how did you impact it?*

Question 43

What type of culture do you thrive in?

Question 44

What makes you a strong product manager?*

Question 45

How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years?

Question 46

Why do you want to work at Avero?

Question 47

Tell us about a time you used data to influence an important stakeholder

Question 48

Tell us about a time you faced failure and how you bounced back.

Question 49

Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?

Question 50

How would you prioritize resources when you have two important things to do but can’t do them both?

Question 51

What is a product you currently use every day? Why and how would you improve it?

Question 51

How do you decide what and what not to build?

Question 52

Describe a scenario which required you to say no to an idea or project.

Question 53

There is a data point that indicates that there are more Uber drop-offs at the airport than pick-ups from the airport. Why is this the case and what would you do within the product to change that?

Question 54

How would you improve the functionality of the product?

Question 55

How would you increase adoption of X feature?

Question 56

What is the key to a good user interface?

Question 57

What is your experience in B2B?

Question 58

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

Question 58

How would you redesign our product?

Question 59

What is one improvement you would implement for our product in the next 6 months?

Question 60

How would you describe our product to someone?

Question 61

Suggest a new feature for Amazon. What metrics would you use to measure its success?

Question 62

What has made X product successful?

Question 63

How do you know when to cut corners to get a product out the door?

Question 64

Who are our competitors?

Question 65

Tell me about a company that has great customer service, what they do, and why do they do it well?

Question 66

Our engineering teams are pretty used to employing X methodologies. What is your opinion of them? Have you used them in the past?

Question 67

What is the importance of engineers and technical teams as stakeholders? How do you integrate them into the overall product vision?

Question 68

Can you provide an example where a technical solution that you or your team designed became a commercial product?

Question 69

How do you ensure that market-oriented teams fully understand technical challenges?

Question 70

Are you familiar with x/y/z system that we use here? Can you clarify how you have used them in the past?

Question 71

Is there a particular life experience that shows your willingness to learn new techniques?

Question 72

We are very interested in training our PMs on the technical side of the business. Do you have any mentoring experience you can bring to the table?

Question 73

Before, we used to rely on x company to provide y service, but we are currently bringing it in-house. Would you be comfortable with this type of project?

Question 74

How would you face a technical challenge you have never encountered before? Describe your methodology step by step.

Question 75

How does this position fit in your overall Product Management career path?

Question 76

What are your favored tools to manage x process (workflow, people management, wire-framing)? Why?

Question 77

Do you tend to be more business-oriented or technical-oriented?

Question 78

What attracts you the most to this project: our product or our company?

Question 79

I have seen that, in the past, you have worked as x position (think software engineer or program manager). Can you tell me what this taught you with regard to the importance of x factor (think design sprints or stakeholder management)?

Question 80

What are the key conflicts between development and business teams? Can you show examples of how you reconciled them in the past?

Question 81

What is the importance of engineers and technical teams as stakeholders? How do you integrate them in the overall product vision?

Question 82

Can you provide an example where a technical solution you or your team designed became a commercial application?

Question 83

How do you bring “the user” in as a Technical Product Manager?

Question 84

How do you ensure that market-oriented teams fully understand technical challenges?

Question 85

How do you measure success with a product?

Question 86

How do you align technical goals with business targets?

Question 87

How many people are currently online in Europe?

Question 88

How many windows are in New York City?

Question 89

Why are manhole covers round?

Question 90

How many iPads are sold in the USA every year?

Question 90

How much money is spent in the USA per year on gas?

Question 91

How would you go about finding out the number of red cars in China?

Question 92

If you wanted to build the world’s most popular mobile messaging product, and you need to estimate how much network bandwidth would be used in a year, how would you go about doing this?

Question 93

____ metrics are down. How would you go about determining the root cause?

Question 94

What aspects of Product Management do you find the most exciting?

Question 95

Tell me about a time when you had to build or motivate a team.

Question 96

What do you think a day-to-day would be like for a Product Manager?

Question 97

How do you think Product Managers interact with engineers?

Question 98

How would you explain Product Management to a 5-year-old?

Question 99

What aspects of Product Management do you find the least interesting?

Question 99

Tell me about your role on your team, who else you work with, and how you work with them.

Question 100

Can you tell us of a moment were you made sure that the concerns of sales-oriented and development-oriented teams were aligned?

Question 101

What are your favorite techniques to include the voice of the user in your team deliberations?

Question 102

Tell me about a favorite/least fav product, how would you improve it?

Question 102

How would you react if the competition began providing the same services at a lower cost?

Question 102

How do you approach roadmap creation, prioritization, iteration?

Question 103

What have you done in a situation of serious technical or commercial failure for a product or feature?

Question 104

How do you interact with customers/users?

Question 105

Tell me about a challenging issue or challenge you took on.

Question 106

Tell me how you’ve overcome product failures/challenges or poor feedback.

Question 107

Tell me about a time you had to influence someone.

Question 108

Tell me about a mistake you made and how you handled it.

Question 109

One executive says that Feature A is more important and another executive says Feature B is more important. How do you choose which one to implement?

Question 110

Tell me about a time you used data to make a decision.

Question 111

What’s the best way to work with executives?

Question 112

Is consensus always a good thing?

Question 113

What is the best way to work with customers and users?

Question 114

What kind of people do you have a hard time working with?

Question 115

What kinds of people do you like to work with?

Question 116

What would you do to get a team to stick to a schedule?

Question 117

What’s the difference between leadership and management?

Question 118

Why should we hire you?

Question 118

Where do you see yourself in five years?

Question 119

What do you do in your spare time?

Question 120

What’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever had to make?

Question 121

What do you need from your manager to be successful?

Question 121

How do you say no to people?

Question 122

What is one of the worst ideas you’ve ever had?

Question 123

What is one of the best ideas you’ve ever had?

Question 124

Do you have experience in a remote working environment?

Question 125

How have you kept communication from breaking down in a remote setting?

Question 126

How would you face the challenge of managing a team that works across timezones?

Question 127

What challenges have you faced when working remotely? How have you overcome them?

Question 128

How would you build a high-performance async product team?

Question 129

Tell me about your work at your current company?

Question 130

Pick a non-digital product you like and describe it

Question 131

What framework or model do you use to prioritize?

Question 132

How do you communicate product vision to the stakeholders vertically and horizontally?

Question 133

How do you communicate with a difficult stakeholder and solve the issue?

Question 134

How do you manage misaligned stakeholders?

Question 135

Walk me through a product you worked on from the beginning to the launch

Question 136

If I were to ask your manager about you, what three words would your manager use to describe you?

Question 137

Why did you make the move to leave your company?

Question 138

How did you grow the product? (user base etc)

Question 139

Describe a situation where you had to make a strategic decision with limited information. How did you approach it, and what was the outcome?

Question 140

How do you stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies that could impact your product or the broader market?

Question 141

How would you define the product vision for a new venture in an unfamiliar market?

Question 142

Tell me about a time you had to build consensus and motivate a cross-functional team to achieve a goal.

Question 143

How do you manage conflict within your team and ensure everyone feels heard and valued?

Question 144

Describe your experience delegating tasks and empowering others to take ownership.

Question 145

Provide an example of how you used data to make a product decision. What metrics did you use, and what was the impact?

Question 146

How do you measure the success of a product initiative, and how do you communicate that success to stakeholders?

Question 147

Discuss your experience with A/B testing and its role in product development.

Question 148

Walk me through a complex product challenge you faced and how you tackled it. What was the outcome, and what lessons did you learn?

Question 149

Describe a situation where you had to go above and beyond the call of duty to solve a problem.

Question 149

What are your biggest learning takeaways from your past product management experiences?

Question 150

If you were to open a restaurant, what would it be like? Food, experience, location, etc.

Question 151

What are your reasons for getting into product management?

Question 152

Whats a challenge youve had?

Question 152

What was your most memorable restaurant experience?

Question 153

What would you say your weakness is?

Question 154

What metrics do you evaluate when determining whether your and your team’s efforts are a success? (looking for tracking success, setting up tracking ahead of launch, making sure they can track success, etc)

Question 155

How do you drive consensus on a solution w differing opinions?