PM Questions

Question 1

What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

Answer 1

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Question 2

How do you stay user-focused?

Answer 2

Gathering user feedback

Question 3

How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years?

Answer 3

Growing in the fintech domain

Question 4

Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?

Answer 4

Leading cross functional projects and own projects that give a hands on impact

Question 5

What is the key to a good user interface?

Answer 5

Simplicity

Question 6

How do you know if a product is well-designed?

Answer 6

Criteria as user satisfaction

Question 7

What aspects of Product Management do you find the most exciting?

Answer 7

Be in the middle of many functions and actually

Question 8

What aspects of Product Management do you find the least interesting?

Answer 8

There are always routine or admin tasks however these are important as well

Question 9

What do you know about agile?

Answer 9

Project management framework. Iterative development

Question 10

How do you decide when to retire a product or feature?

Answer 10

Declining usage

Question 11

Describe how you would use A/B testing to improve a product.

Answer 11

Select metrics

Question 12

What is your experience with user persona creation and its impact on product development?

Answer 12

You create a user persona based on user data and market research. It can have a significant impact on on design and prioritization

Question 13

What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

Answer 13

Facilitator and leader in bridging gaps (engineering

Question 14

How do you stay user-focused?

Answer 14

A/B TESTING. User Data

Question 15

Tell us about a time you faced failure and how you bounced back.

Answer 15

Bid Manager knowledge

Question 16

Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?

Answer 16

Solving real problems

Question 17

What is the key to a good user interface?

Answer 17

Simplicity and user centric design. Crucial to understand user needs via AB testing.

Question 18

How do you interact with customers/users?

Answer 18

User-centric design is crucial of course. AB testing

Question 19

What aspects of Product Management do you find the least interesting?

Answer 19

All aspects are important

Question 20

How do you stay organized and manage your time effectively?

Answer 20

Slots for deep work

Question 21

How would you improve your favorite product?

Answer 21

Spotify

Question 22

How would you improve your favorite product?

Answer 22

Spotify

Question 23

How would you improve your favorite product?

Answer 23

Amazon

Question 24

How would you improve your favorite product?

Answer 24

Netflix

Question 25

What main changes would you make to [our product]?

Answer 25

Customized recommendations. Maybe calories and how it breaks down. Maybe subscription model for ordering at work for example. Carbon Offset Program. Efood market products

Question 26

What has made X product successful?

Answer 26

Facebook

Question 27

What do you dislike about our product?

Answer 27

I would say the product availability of the efood market

Question 28

What is a product

Answer 28

the definition?

Question 29

What do you think are the most important qualities of a successful product manager?

Answer 29

Empathy

Question 30

Tell me about a time you used data to make a decision.

Answer 30

Every decision was on data in partnerships. Some had needed more sophisticated models

Question 31

What kind of people do you have a hard time working with?

Answer 31

I work well most of the time. If there would be one example it would be people not to collaborate or share information. It happened to me once

Question 32

How do you balance business needs with user experience?

Answer 32

Normally I think it shouldn't be a balance

Question 33

Describe a time you led a team or project without formal authority. How did you ensure collaboration and achieve the goals?

Answer 33

Especially my previous role was that day to day. Almost all the people contributing were people that not only didn’t have direct authority

Question 34

Tell me about a product that you think is well designed. What makes it well designed?

Answer 34

Duolingo: Gamification points

Question 35

What metrics would you look at to evaluate the success of a product?

Answer 35

If we take for example in customer payments: Acceptance %

Question 36

Have you ever done flows?

Answer 36

Yes in slickplan

Question 37

How would you convince upper management to approve a project with uncertain ROI?

Answer 37

Benefits

Question 38

Who are our competitors?

Answer 38

Wolt: User friendly

Question 39

Describe a product you would redesign today. How would you approach the redesign?

Answer 39

(In general) Identify Problems with the Current Product

Question 40

What’s your approach to prioritizing tasks?

Answer 40

MoSCoW Must have

Question 41

User story

Answer 41

As an X I want to do Y so I can Z. As a user I want to send direct pictures to my friends so I can share my fav photos with them. Small but deliver full value