PM Interview Flashcards
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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?
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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
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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.)
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4
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How do you manage time
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5
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Reason for leaving current position
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- 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.
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Estimate the number of restaurants in San Francisco (Estimation questions)
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What does a product manager do/What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?
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Do you have any personal experience working in the restaurant or hospitality industry?
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9
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What are some of the unique challenges facing restaurant operators in terms of data utilization and technology adoption?
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10
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How do you utilize data and user research to inform your product decisions?
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11
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Do you have any ideas for innovative product features or solutions that address specific pain points in the hospitality sector?
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12
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Briefly walk me through your experience with the product lifecycle, from ideation to launch to post-launch monitoring.
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13
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Can you describe your experience with Agile methodologies and scrum?
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14
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How do you approach prioritizing a backlog and ensuring you’re building the right features first?
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15
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Describe your leadership style and how you would encourage innovation within your team.
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16
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How would you define success for a product aimed at restaurant operators?
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17
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How do you build trust and rapport with cross-functional teams, particularly engineers and customer support?
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18
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How would you prioritize and balance the needs of different stakeholders, such as restaurant operators, data providers, and internal teams?
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19
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What metrics would you use to measure the impact of a new product feature or initiative?
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20
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Can you share an example of a time you had to make a difficult product decision with limited information?
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21
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How would you approach scaling the Avero product to accommodate future growth?
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22
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Can you share an example of a time you successfully navigated a conflict between team members or stakeholders?
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23
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How do you stay informed about industry trends and best practices in product management?
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24
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Why do you want this job, and how does it fit your overall career trajectory?
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How do you determine what customers want and need?
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Tell me about a time you had trouble building consensus and how you overcame it.
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How would you prioritize these four things / What’s your approach to prioritizing tasks?
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What’s your biggest failure as a product manager, and why did it happen?
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What’s a challenge you had to overcome?
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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
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How do you communicate your product strategy?
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What will you do in the first 90 days if we hire you?
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What KPIs do you use to measure success in your role?
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How do you collaborate with different stakeholders? Can you share an example of a time you led a team or project?
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What do you know about the hospitality & F&B data space?
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What are your impressions of our company and product?
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How would you approach achieving the goals of this product or team?
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What challenges do you see, and how would you address them?
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How do you stay user-focused?
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What main changes would you make to Avero?
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Tell us about a time a feature or product had poor adoption - how did you know? What did you do?
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Which product have you led in the past and how did you impact it?*
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What type of culture do you thrive in?
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What makes you a strong product manager?*
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How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years?
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Why do you want to work at Avero?
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Tell us about a time you used data to influence an important stakeholder
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Tell us about a time you faced failure and how you bounced back.
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Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?
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How would you prioritize resources when you have two important things to do but can’t do them both?
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What is a product you currently use every day? Why and how would you improve it?
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How do you decide what and what not to build?
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Describe a scenario which required you to say no to an idea or project.
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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?
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How would you improve the functionality of the product?
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How would you increase adoption of X feature?
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What is the key to a good user interface?
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What is your experience in B2B?
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How do you know if a product is well-designed?
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How would you redesign our product?
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What is one improvement you would implement for our product in the next 6 months?
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How would you describe our product to someone?
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Suggest a new feature for Amazon. What metrics would you use to measure its success?
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What has made X product successful?
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How do you know when to cut corners to get a product out the door?
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Who are our competitors?
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Tell me about a company that has great customer service, what they do, and why do they do it well?
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Our engineering teams are pretty used to employing X methodologies. What is your opinion of them? Have you used them in the past?
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What is the importance of engineers and technical teams as stakeholders? How do you integrate them into the overall product vision?
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Can you provide an example where a technical solution that you or your team designed became a commercial product?
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How do you ensure that market-oriented teams fully understand technical challenges?
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Are you familiar with x/y/z system that we use here? Can you clarify how you have used them in the past?
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Is there a particular life experience that shows your willingness to learn new techniques?
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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?
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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?
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How would you face a technical challenge you have never encountered before? Describe your methodology step by step.
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How does this position fit in your overall Product Management career path?
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What are your favored tools to manage x process (workflow, people management, wire-framing)? Why?
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Do you tend to be more business-oriented or technical-oriented?
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What attracts you the most to this project: our product or our company?
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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)?
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What are the key conflicts between development and business teams? Can you show examples of how you reconciled them in the past?
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What is the importance of engineers and technical teams as stakeholders? How do you integrate them in the overall product vision?
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Can you provide an example where a technical solution you or your team designed became a commercial application?
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How do you bring “the user” in as a Technical Product Manager?
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How do you ensure that market-oriented teams fully understand technical challenges?
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How do you measure success with a product?
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How do you align technical goals with business targets?
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How many people are currently online in Europe?
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How many windows are in New York City?
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Why are manhole covers round?
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How many iPads are sold in the USA every year?
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How much money is spent in the USA per year on gas?
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How would you go about finding out the number of red cars in China?
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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?
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____ metrics are down. How would you go about determining the root cause?
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What aspects of Product Management do you find the most exciting?
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Tell me about a time when you had to build or motivate a team.
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What do you think a day-to-day would be like for a Product Manager?
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How do you think Product Managers interact with engineers?
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How would you explain Product Management to a 5-year-old?
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What aspects of Product Management do you find the least interesting?
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Tell me about your role on your team, who else you work with, and how you work with them.
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Can you tell us of a moment were you made sure that the concerns of sales-oriented and development-oriented teams were aligned?
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What are your favorite techniques to include the voice of the user in your team deliberations?
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Tell me about a favorite/least fav product, how would you improve it?
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How would you react if the competition began providing the same services at a lower cost?
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How do you approach roadmap creation, prioritization, iteration?
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What have you done in a situation of serious technical or commercial failure for a product or feature?
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How do you interact with customers/users?
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Tell me about a challenging issue or challenge you took on.
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Tell me how you've overcome product failures/challenges or poor feedback.
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Tell me about a time you had to influence someone.
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Tell me about a mistake you made and how you handled it.
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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?
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Tell me about a time you used data to make a decision.
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What’s the best way to work with executives?
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Is consensus always a good thing?
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What is the best way to work with customers and users?
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What kind of people do you have a hard time working with?
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What kinds of people do you like to work with?
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What would you do to get a team to stick to a schedule?
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What’s the difference between leadership and management?
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Why should we hire you?
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Where do you see yourself in five years?
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What do you do in your spare time?
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What's the most difficult decision you’ve ever had to make?
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What do you need from your manager to be successful?
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How do you say no to people?
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What is one of the worst ideas you’ve ever had?
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What is one of the best ideas you’ve ever had?
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Do you have experience in a remote working environment?
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How have you kept communication from breaking down in a remote setting?
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How would you face the challenge of managing a team that works across timezones?
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What challenges have you faced when working remotely? How have you overcome them?
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How would you build a high-performance async product team?
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Tell me about your work at your current company?
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Pick a non-digital product you like and describe it
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What framework or model do you use to prioritize?
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How do you communicate product vision to the stakeholders vertically and horizontally?
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How do you communicate with a difficult stakeholder and solve the issue?
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How do you manage misaligned stakeholders?
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Walk me through a product you worked on from the beginning to the launch
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If I were to ask your manager about you, what three words would your manager use to describe you?
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Why did you make the move to leave your company?
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How did you grow the product? (user base etc)
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Describe a situation where you had to make a strategic decision with limited information. How did you approach it, and what was the outcome?
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How do you stay informed about industry trends and emerging technologies that could impact your product or the broader market?
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How would you define the product vision for a new venture in an unfamiliar market?
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Tell me about a time you had to build consensus and motivate a cross-functional team to achieve a goal.
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How do you manage conflict within your team and ensure everyone feels heard and valued?
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Describe your experience delegating tasks and empowering others to take ownership.
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Provide an example of how you used data to make a product decision. What metrics did you use, and what was the impact?
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How do you measure the success of a product initiative, and how do you communicate that success to stakeholders?
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Discuss your experience with A/B testing and its role in product development.
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Walk me through a complex product challenge you faced and how you tackled it. What was the outcome, and what lessons did you learn?
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Describe a situation where you had to go above and beyond the call of duty to solve a problem.
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What are your biggest learning takeaways from your past product management experiences?
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If you were to open a restaurant, what would it be like? Food, experience, location, etc.
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What are your reasons for getting into product management?
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Whats a challenge youve had?
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What was your most memorable restaurant experience?
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What would you say your weakness is?
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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)
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How do you drive consensus on a solution w differing opinions?
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