Product sense PM interview questions
9 product sense product manager interview questions, most testing product sense and design. Answer one and get feedback on framing, trade-offs and measurement.
9 questions: 6 cases and 3 quick calls.
Difficulty: 4 easy, 3 medium and 2 hard.
Skills tested most: Product Sense and Design (9), Measurement (3), Strategy and Business Judgment (2).
How to answer a case: Restate the goal, who it is for and what success looks like; Ask the two questions that change your answer; Lay out two or three options and what each gives up; Pick one, say why and name the first step; Name the metric, the threshold you would act on and the risk you would watch.
How to answer a quick call: Say the goal and what a good outcome looks like; Say what you are giving up, and why it is worth it; Say what you would do first, and who has to agree; Name the metric and the threshold that would change your mind.
Product sense questions
- Coming back to a flooded Outlook inbox: People return from a two week holiday to a Microsoft Outlook inbox full of unread email… Case, easy, about 10 minutes.
- Design a LinkedIn for blue-collar workers: Design a LinkedIn for blue-collar workers. Start from what a tradesperson needs to find the next job or shift quickly, not from the… Case, easy, about 10 minutes.
- Loud integration demand or quiet setup churn: One customer filed thirty of this month's eighty support tickets, all demanding one integration, in writing to your chief executive… Quick call, medium, about 4 minutes.
- Grow Flipkart users aged over 60: You are a PM at Flipkart and the company has decided to grow its users aged over 60… Case, medium, about 15 minutes.
- Identity check that costs a fifth of activations: Regulators require identity verification in your invoicing product next month… Quick call, hard, about 5 minutes.
- Fix the LinkedIn sign up flow: LinkedIn wants a better sign up process. Fewer form fields is the easy answer… Case, easy, about 10 minutes.
- Move WhatsApp UPI use from 10% to 25% of users: WhatsApp payments over UPI are used by 10% of its monthly active users in India… Case, hard, about 20 minutes.
- Most-requested feature ships to low usage: Your most-requested feature finally ships. Usage is a fraction of what the… Quick call, easy, about 3 minutes.
- Should LinkedIn allow anonymous posting: LinkedIn's CEO wants to allow anonymous posting and asks for your recommendation: build it or not… Case, medium, about 15 minutes.
Product sense interview questions
- Coming back to a flooded Outlook inbox
- Design a LinkedIn for blue-collar workers
- Loud integration demand or quiet setup churn
- Grow Flipkart users aged over 60
- Identity check that costs a fifth of activations
- Fix the LinkedIn sign up flow
- Move WhatsApp UPI use from 10% to 25% of users
- Most-requested feature ships to low usage
- Should LinkedIn allow anonymous posting
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