List of PMs interview Questions

4 min readSep 2, 2019

List of Product Manager Interview Questions: Product Questions

How would you prioritize resources when you have two important things to do but can’t do them both?
Describe a scenario which required you to say no to an idea or project.
How do you decide what and what not to build?
What is a product you currently use every day, why and how would you improve it?
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?
How would you improve the functionality 10x of what it is now?
How would you increase adoption of Google’s Fiber to the Home product?
What is the key to a good user interface?
While we make X product for the general public, we also have a B2B division. What is your experience with juggling both markets?
How do you know if a product is well designed?
How would you redesign our product?
What is one improvement you would implement for our product in the next 6 months?
What is a major challenge our company will face in the next 12–24 months?
How would you describe our product to someone?
Suggest a new feature for Amazon. What metrics would you use to measure its success?
What has made X product successful?
What do you dislike about our product?
How do you know when to cut corners to get a product out the door?
How do you think we came up with the price for X product?
Who are our competitors?
Tell me about a company that has great customer service, what they do and why do they do it well?

Our engineering teams are pretty used to employing x methodologies. What is your opinion of them? Have you used them in the past?
What is the importance of engineers and technical teams as stakeholders? How do you integrate them into the overall product vision?
Can you provide an example where a technical solution you or your team designed became a commercial product?
How do you ensure that market-oriented teams fully understand technical challenges?
When are Bayesian methods more appropriate than “Artificial Intelligence” techniques for predictive analytics?

How many people are currently online in Europe?
How many windows are in New York City?
How many iPads are sold in the USA every year?
How much money is spent in the USA per year on GAS?
How would you go about finding out the number of red cars in China?
If you want 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?
____ metrics are down. How would you go about determining the root cause?

What aspects of product management do you find the most exciting?
Tell me about a time when you had to build or motivate a team.
What do you think a day to day would be like for a product manager?
How do you think product managers interact with engineers?
How would you explain Product Management to a 5-year-old?
What aspects of product management do you find the least interesting?
Tell me about your role on your team, who else you work with, and how you work with them.

Tell me about a challenging issue or challenge you took on
Tell me about how you interact with customers/users?
Talk about how you overcame product failures/challenges or poor feedback.
Tell me about a time you had to influence someone.
Tell me about a mistake you made and how you handled it.
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?
Tell me about a time you used data to make a decision.