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1 | Timestamp | Company | What was the interview question? | Question Type (e.g. Product, Strategy) | Interview Type | Comments (e.g. your approach) | What was the job title for this question? | ||||||
2 | 12/19/2019 15:29:06 | Redfin | How do you measure success of the Hot Home feature in Redfin? | A/B Testing | In-Person | ||||||||
3 | 12/19/2019 17:06:30 | Dropbox | How do you improve Slack? | Product design / strategy | Phone | ||||||||
4 | 12/19/2019 17:07:12 | How did you turn an adversary into a confidant? | Behavioral | In-Person | |||||||||
5 | 12/19/2019 17:07:38 | What goals and success metrics would you set for buy & sell groups? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
6 | 12/19/2019 17:07:51 | You are the PM of Facebook Lite, what goals would you set? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
7 | 12/19/2019 17:08:10 | Goals and success metrics for FB video | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
8 | 12/19/2019 17:08:22 | How would you set a goal for Facebook Lite? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
9 | 12/19/2019 17:08:36 | You are PM of FB Login used by 3rd parties and you notice successful logins metrics is down on a Monday morning, what will you do? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
10 | 12/19/2019 17:08:48 | You're the PM for FB watch. What goals would you set? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
11 | 12/19/2019 17:09:00 | How would you set a goal for Facebook Marketplace? | Execution | Video | |||||||||
12 | 12/19/2019 17:09:12 | You are PM of FB Events and you saw an overnight drop in RSVPs by 10%. How would you go about determining what happened? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
13 | 12/19/2019 17:09:24 | You are the PM of notifications. How would you determine the trade offs between showing your friendโs fundraiser or the event they are going to / created? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
14 | 12/19/2019 17:09:36 | How would you set a goal for Life Events on Facebook? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
15 | 12/19/2019 17:09:47 | How would you measure the success of Facebook Stories? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
16 | 12/19/2019 17:09:59 | Let's say you're the PM on Facebook Events. How would measure success? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
17 | 12/19/2019 17:10:12 | How would you measure success for IG stories. | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
18 | 12/19/2019 17:10:23 | One smart Engineer came to you with the idea that we should show recommended Marketplace items on Newsfeed. What will you do? | Execution | Phone | |||||||||
19 | 12/19/2019 17:10:39 | How would you improve Facebook Reactions? | Product Sense | Phone | |||||||||
20 | 12/19/2019 17:10:56 | Design a product that helps people become healthier. | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
21 | 12/19/2019 17:11:24 | Design a healthcare product for people moving to a new city. | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
22 | 12/19/2019 17:11:37 | Design a product to improve FB employeesโ health. | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
23 | 12/19/2019 17:11:54 | Design a product for a library. | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
24 | 12/19/2019 17:12:10 | Design a crisis management app. | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
25 | 12/19/2019 17:12:25 | Build a feature for lending (goods) on Facebook. | Product Sense | In-Person | |||||||||
26 | 12/19/2019 19:18:06 | How would you price a brand new Kindle book? | Pricing | In-Person | |||||||||
27 | 12/19/2019 19:31:34 | Estimate memory needed for Nest cameras for fiscal year 2020 | Estimation | Phone | |||||||||
28 | 12/21/2019 7:19:25 | IG Executives had a strategy meeting and decided they wanted to pursue something in the area of Education. You've been chosen as the PM to lead the effort. What do you do? | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
29 | 12/21/2019 7:26:14 | 1. You are the PM of FB Marketplace, what metrics would you focus on for growth 2. You come in Monday morning and listings usage are down what do you do? 3. We are seeing a trend where Time Spent in marketplace is up for some users and their Newsfeed time is down what do you do? | Product Execution | Video | |||||||||
30 | 12/23/2019 6:42:17 | Few years ago Facebook used to restrict user signups with .edu emails only. Why did they remove that restriction and what were the pros & cons of doing so? | Product Strategy (Mission Driven, Ecosystem Thinking) | In-Person | Facebook was growing in the colleges rapidly and had already met their old goal of connecting all students in all colleges. They now had a new mission, "To give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.โ In order to grow rapidly and towards that mission, they opened up user signups for everyone not just .edu emails. Pros: Rapid growth Cons: Resource needs (network, servers, funding), churn from early users that didn't feel they belonged to FB anymore | ||||||||
31 | 12/30/2019 8:42:09 | Evaluate competitor landscape (direct & indirect) for Drop Box? | Strategy | Phone | |||||||||
32 | 1/5/2020 0:12:14 | How would you improve the grocery delivery experience for Facebook | Product Sense | Video | Clarify the problem statement, set the goal, define the user segment and user persona, define the user needs to be solved (working adults who are short on time), brainstorm a few solutions, prioritize them, design the solution interface (mockups) | ||||||||
33 | 1/11/2020 12:20:33 | Design an app for museums | Product Strategy | Video | Make sure to approach the problem methodically (Mission, Goals and Metrics, Personas, Pain points, Features, Solutioning) | ||||||||
34 | 1/11/2020 12:22:52 | You're the PM for the Facebook Like feature. Like acceptance is down 5%, what do you do? | Product Execution | Video | Work your way through the frameworks as discussed in Lewis' The Product Manager Interview. Macro factors, Competition, Devices, Product, Features, etc. | ||||||||
35 | 1/11/2020 12:23:13 | How would you make the internet faster? | Product Strategy | Phone | |||||||||
36 | 1/11/2020 12:23:40 | Design a better trash can | Product Strategy | Phone | |||||||||
37 | 1/11/2020 12:25:21 | What goals would you set for growth for Facebook Lite? | Product Execution | Video | |||||||||
38 | 1/13/2020 8:57:25 | Microsoft | Design a solution for family to have safe digital experience. | Product | In-Person | ||||||||
39 | 1/14/2020 1:24:41 | How would you improve google map for logged in user? | Product | Phone | |||||||||
40 | 1/14/2020 14:05:32 | Lyft | How would you design Lyft dynamic pricing | Analytics | In-Person | ||||||||
41 | 1/14/2020 14:06:12 | Lyft | Design an app for making someone a better cook | Product Sense | In-Person | ||||||||
42 | 1/16/2020 13:56:23 | Design a system for Sundar to communicate with business partners abroad given unlimited resources. Now say that you have 1 year and 20 engineers to build this, what is your mvp? What is your go-to market? Letโs say at the end of the first year after launch, there are only 5 calls/month on the platform, what are your next steps? | Design & Strategy | In-Person | Pay attention to the world "Abroad" | ||||||||
43 | 1/17/2020 21:46:58 | Design a product to help consumers find a doctor | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
44 | 1/17/2020 21:48:39 | You're the PM for Events - what would be your goal? | Execution | Video | |||||||||
45 | 1/18/2020 8:27:11 | How would you design a laundry machine for Jeff Bezos? | Product | Phone | Went for the moon shot outlandish approach since it's Google. That seemed to be received positively. | ||||||||
46 | 1/19/2020 19:04:21 | You're the PM for a well-funded smart home start up. Design the accompanying app for the physical smart home product. | Product sense | Video | |||||||||
47 | 1/19/2020 19:06:58 | 1. You're the PM for Facebook buy/sell groups. How would you define success? 2. Imagine the number of buy/sell group creations dropped 10% MoM. What do you do? 3. An engineer came to you with the idea to show recommended items in buy/sell groups. How do you prioritize this? | Execution | Video | |||||||||
48 | 1/20/2020 15:24:52 | Design a phone for the elderly (65 plus) | Product Design | Video | |||||||||
49 | 1/20/2020 15:25:43 | Design a question and answer website like Quora | Technical | Video | |||||||||
50 | 1/20/2020 15:26:40 | Should google get into ride sharing business , if yes how many cars will it need for a mid size city | Strategy, Estimation | Phone | |||||||||
51 | 1/21/2020 2:11:01 | Design a refrigerator for the Blind | Product Design | Phone | |||||||||
52 | 1/21/2020 9:34:48 | What should be the strategy for news on Facebook Video? | Strategy | Phone | Figure out the goals of Facebook video and how it fits into the Facebook product portfolio. How does it fit with the Facebook mission. Then discuss how news networks work today and how might they fit into Facebook's larger strategy. | ||||||||
53 | 1/21/2020 13:27:09 | How many calories are in a typical grocery store | Estimation | In-Person | Clarify the grocery store type. Agreed on a specific use case with the interviewer and suggested methodologies for calculating the estimate. Discussed the merits of each methodology (top down, bottom up). | ||||||||
54 | 1/21/2020 15:59:03 | Amazon | Tell me about one of the interesting projects that you have recently worked on | behavior | Phone | ||||||||
55 | 1/23/2020 1:53:44 | COSS PTE LTD | How you do market research? | Market Research | In-Person | ||||||||
56 | 1/23/2020 15:31:59 | Design a product to solve the long process of making an appointment with doctors | Product sense | Video | |||||||||
57 | 1/23/2020 15:32:54 | Set the goal for Admins for Facebook groups. | Product execution | Video | |||||||||
58 | 1/24/2020 11:20:55 | what should google do in 5 years with all the tech innovations happening? | strategy | In-Person | listed tech innovations that google and competitors are developing and analyze swot to narrow down one tech and eventually came up with a product idea with it | ||||||||
59 | 1/24/2020 11:26:39 | bike sharing company is considering freemium model. should they do it or not? | strategy | In-Person | identified the goal- higher revenue/rider and conversion. defined the persona and came up with a testing idea (pick a certain time period where tourists can try it out instead of busy commute hours) | ||||||||
60 | 1/24/2020 11:27:32 | Roblox | Tell me about a time you built something 0 to 1 | behavorial | Phone | ||||||||
61 | 1/24/2020 11:36:02 | how would you determine if features go into OS level or application level? | strategy | In-Person | goals- for customers experience the best product experience. example: is application level ebooks are better than OS level ebooks? | ||||||||
62 | 1/27/2020 18:25:28 | Microsoft | Design a phone for a 1-3 year kid | Product | Phone | ||||||||
63 | 1/29/2020 17:59:22 | Amazon | How would you design a test to measure the success of using a gift card promotion to get Prime members to download the Prime mobile app? | Metrics | In-Person | ||||||||
64 | 1/29/2020 18:27:51 | How can we help our users travel better? | Product Sense | Video | Started with Goal - mission of Facebook, how this would tie in; Moved onto users - who are the types of users we have and what are their different travel needs - Business travel, holiday travel; t Tied back to the mission of Facebook and picked holiday travelers to focus on; Went through the customer journey to figure out needs at each step - 1) selecting travel destination 2) logistics before the trip (flights, hotel bookings etc.) 3) recommendations during the trip (things to do, places to visit etc.) 4) post trip needs like posting pictures reviews etc Prioritized which steps we should solve for based on 3 criteria - ability to impact (what is Facebook best positioned to add value in), implementation difficulty, existing solutions Picked step 1 - selecting travel destination and went into the problems users currently face while picking a travel destination. Talked about different types of trips users can take - solo vs group and problems with each. Suggested two solutions at the end before ran out of time | ||||||||
65 | 2/5/2020 13:02:08 | There has been a drop in number of groups created. Why? | Execution | Phone | Go through the user journey and understand the necessary technology and steps involved in each step of the process. Discoverability, usability, geographical issues, tech issues (isp, device, cloud, ios) | ||||||||
66 | 2/5/2020 19:41:38 | Build an education product for Facebook | Product Design | Video | Standard approach, was expected to do a wireframe etc. for the experience | ||||||||
67 | 2/9/2020 19:35:03 | What goals would you set if you were the PM for Facebook's fundraiser feature | Product Execution | Video | |||||||||
68 | 2/9/2020 19:35:30 | Improve in-store grocery shopping experience | Product Design | Video | |||||||||
69 | 2/11/2020 6:48:36 | 1. Google cloud wants to provide google translation as an API. What do you think about it? Pros and cons analysis 2. Estimate the market share of google translator as an API 3. How would you price it? | Strategy, Estimation, Pricing | Video | |||||||||
70 | 2/14/2020 11:37:23 | How technically deep are you? Describe a project where you had a large impact on technical direction. Draw a system diagram of a system you are familiar with (in as much detail). (Most questions because of technical background.) | Technical | In-Person | Described system, drew system on whiteboard, interviewer was on Hangouts in another office. | ||||||||
71 | 2/14/2020 11:39:16 | What is a non tech product you really like. Why do you like it? How would you improve it? If you were the CEO of XYZ product, what would you do? | Product | In-Person | Chose a #2 graphite pencil. Probably best to have some product in mind beforehand, like a washing machine. | ||||||||
72 | 2/14/2020 11:42:56 | What do engineers need/expect from a product manager? Give me an example where you had negotiating for 'resources' that are not in your control. You are in charge of pricing for an immersive AR/VR experience type offering. How would you price it? | Strategy | In-Person | Clarified resources, gave an example with human resources. AR/VR, first define what a service looks like, what competing services exist if any, who the audience is, and what they are likely to pay. | ||||||||
73 | 2/14/2020 11:45:25 | Why PM? Why Google? Why now? consistently asked by each interviewer (Sr PM position). Choose any product, you are the only PM on it. You have to create a metrics dashboard for it, what would be on this dashboard. CEO of Google walks into the room, you have to recommend a 10x idea to him, what would you recommend and why. | Metrics | In-Person | SWOT of Google, identified target market, suggested a couple of offerings | ||||||||
74 | 2/14/2020 11:48:06 | Describe a product you like and why? If you had to improve the product, what would you do. Product you dislike and why? You have to develop the next generation TV service, resources are no constraint. What would you do. You have to design the next generation of search, what would you do? | Strategy | In-Person | Clarified scope of reach question, then answered. For search, asked if I can consider Google search (Yes). Suggested 3 ideas, recommended to start with one. | ||||||||
75 | 2/18/2020 21:45:47 | Design an App for an Amusement Park | Product | Phone | CIRCLE method | ||||||||
76 | 2/18/2020 21:50:19 | What product (or service) will be obsolete in 5-10 years? Then, how would you advise the producer/creator/company in this shifting landscape? | Strategy | Phone | |||||||||
77 | 2/19/2020 21:38:12 | Walmart E-commerce | How would you improve customer experience with the accompanying mobile app? | Product strategy | In-Person | ||||||||
78 | 2/20/2020 13:03:13 | Design a volunteering product for the Social Goods team. | Product Sense | Video | CIRCLES | ||||||||
79 | 2/20/2020 13:03:45 | What metrics and goals would you focus on for Instagram stories? | Execution | Video | |||||||||
80 | 2/22/2020 14:08:10 | Build a grocery shopping app | Product Sense | Video | |||||||||
81 | 2/26/2020 20:49:59 | Which vertical should be the focus for Facebook Watch? Why? | Strategy | Video | |||||||||
82 | 2/26/2020 20:51:41 | Design residential apartment for Google | Product Design | Phone | |||||||||
83 | 2/26/2020 21:14:09 | Uner | How would you increase avg Uber driver rating in your area from current 4.5? | Product Design | Phone | ||||||||
84 | 2/27/2020 15:48:53 | Teradata | Product Design, Execution, Tradeoff | Product Design, Execution, Tradeoff | Phone | ||||||||
85 | 2/28/2020 15:55:08 | Intuit | Tell me about the challenge you had with your co-worker and how you handled it. | Behavioral | Phone | mentioned blockers I had received in product release meetings from a particular individual | |||||||
86 | 2/28/2020 18:09:33 | Microsoft | Youโre the PM for whatโsapp and youโve $1B of investment, what would you do? | Product/Strategy | Phone | Types of users, segmented by market and pick a target user segment, discuss problems and use-cases for the target user | |||||||
87 | 2/28/2020 18:12:58 | Microsoft | Security for a chat/messaging application | Product | In-Person | Security- authentication ? Authorization? Authentication- eg- login mechanisms Authorization- eg - parental controls for children | |||||||
88 | 2/28/2020 18:17:07 | Microsoft | API design for third party integration for payments | Product Design (Technical) | In-Person | Business use-case, type of data to be handled by API, API and system design, system performance | |||||||
89 | 2/29/2020 4:52:56 | What is your favorite non google product? Why do you think it better than other competitor products? What do think about the strategy for it in the future? (My answer is Airbnb, compare with booking, how Airbnb model different or similar to Uber) | Strategy | Phone | I use swot analysis | ||||||||
90 | 2/29/2020 17:45:10 | Walmart | Youโre the PM of Uber, the ride rating is 20%less than industry standards how do you solve this? | Data orientation | In-Person | ||||||||
91 | 3/4/2020 10:01:08 | What is the difference between horizontal and vertical integration | Strategy | Phone | Horizontal adding more machines and vertical enhancing the existing machine | ||||||||
92 | 3/4/2020 23:28:39 | Design a product for Flight system to buy tickets | Product | Phone | |||||||||
93 | 3/5/2020 12:39:24 | Design an education product for Facebook | Product design | In-Person | |||||||||
94 | 3/6/2020 1:07:28 | Abhibus | what product that you have built you consider to be a success and why | Product | Video | 1. what is the product 2. is there any market comparative 3. what metric is important 5. how you achieved that | |||||||
95 | 3/6/2020 15:49:55 | Update Craigslist | Product | Video | |||||||||
96 | 3/6/2020 15:50:56 | You're a founder, and have decided to start something in the travel space. What do you do? | Strategy | In-Person | |||||||||
97 | 3/6/2020 15:52:53 | Make an argument for offering some free storage space to Google Photos users. | Metrics | In-Person | |||||||||
98 | 3/6/2020 15:54:11 | Searching for certain topics is often frustrating, e.g., parenting advice. Brainstorm some solutions for that. | Product Design | In-Person | |||||||||
99 | 3/6/2020 15:55:19 | Google gets the opportunity to place ads in in-flight entertainment (seat-back and personal device). Should it proceed, or not? | Strategy | In-Person | |||||||||
100 | 3/7/2020 14:43:28 | Imagine you own a wildly successful food truck, and you want to scale it up. How would you do it? | Strategy | Phone |