Thread by @bandanjot

Product Manager Interview Rounds 🎤

Here are 7 common type of interview rounds:

Product Design Questions
Behavioral Questions
Product Strategy Questions
Analytics Questions
Technical Questions
Estimation Questions
Product Sense Questions

Let's find out what they're about:

1/ Product Design Questions

These questions test your product thinking skills like defining requirements, generating ideas, prioritizing features, etc.

Sample Questions:
Design X product for Y user
How would you improve X product?

2/ Behavioral Questions
These questions assess your soft skills, ability to work in teams, handle conflicts, demonstrate leadership, etc.

Sample Questions:
Tell me about a time you faced failure?
How do you deal with conflict?
Tell me about a time you demonstrated leadership

3/ Product Strategy Questions
These questions evaluate your strategic thinking abilities like setting goals, developing strategies, analyzing competition, etc.

Sample Questions:
What main changes would you make to [product]?
How would you position this product X against Y?

4/ Metrics/Analytics Questions
These questions test your ability to define, analyze, and reason with metrics and data.

Sample Questions:
What metrics would you use to measure for X product?
X metric changed unexpectedly. What do you do?

5/ Technical Questions
Some companies assess technical depth through system design or coding questions.

Sample Question:
Explain X technical concept

6/ Estimation Questions
These evaluate your ability to make decisions with incomplete information by estimating market size, user interest, etc.

Sample Question:
How many golf balls can fit in a 747 airplane?

I am seeing this type disappearing now from interviews.

7/ Product Sense
These questions evaluate a candidate's ability to deeply understand user needs, identify opportunities and develop compelling product solutions.

Sample Questions:
How would you improve the Facebook News Feed?
Design a new job search product for Meta

I have not included take home assignments. But will do a separate thread on that.

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