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Open source list of questions for product manager interviews
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Open source list of questions for product manager interviews
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/ferminrp/pm-interview-questions
- Owner: ferminrp
- Created: 2022-09-05T17:52:29.000Z (about 3 years ago)
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- Last Synced: 2025-02-16T00:41:29.269Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: interview-questions, interviews, pm, product, product-management
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# PM Interview Questions
Colaborators: [ferminrp](twitter.com/ferminrp)
### Collaboration
- How would you create an environment that encourages collaboration with your peers?
- How do you get engineering to listen to you, given that Product Management has no official authority?
- How have you worked with engineers in your current/previous roles?
- What strategies have you used to manage conflicts within your team, especially between different functions (e.g., engineering, design, etc.)?
- Can you share an example of a difficult negotiation you had with a stakeholder and how you handled it?
### Execution
- What tools, artifacts or ceremonies do you use for carrying out, organizing and communicating your projects?
- How do you handle having multiple priorities at the same time?
- Which parts of the (broadly-defined) Product Management role do you truly excel in? Which parts are your weaknesses?
- Can you describe a time when a project or product feature didn't go as planned? How did you handle it and what was the outcome?
- How do you ensure that your team meets deadlines and achieves its goals?
### Strategy
- Pick a product you worked on in the past year—talk me through your strategy for it.
- Can you describe a time when you had to pivot your product strategy? What led to this decision and what was the outcome?
- How do you align your product strategy with the overall business strategy?
### Customer Insights
- Tell me about a time you did user research on a product/feature and that research had a big impact on the product.
- Can you share an example when you used data to understand user behavior and how it influenced your product decisions?
### Impact
- What’s the most important or impactful product you shipped?
- How do you prioritize initiatives?
- How do you balance the demands of strategic activities versus the tactical?
- How do you measure if a product or feature was a success?
- How do you define and measure success for a product?
- What was a decision you made that had a negative impact on a product, and how did you learn from it?
### Product Sense
- How would you improve feature x in our product?
- What aspects of our product do you think should be improved?
- What's a cool innovation that you've seen lately? Why?
- What's the app on your phone with the best ux and why?
- What's one complex feature of an app you like that you think is really well designed.
- Can you talk about a feature that you believe was poorly designed in a product you love? How would you improve it?
- How do you stay current with the latest UX/UI trends and technologies?
### Business sense
- What do you think of the industry that I'm in?
- We're thinking about expanding into XYZ, should we?
- Can you describe a time when you had to make a tough business decision for a product? What factors did you consider?
- How do you factor in the competitive landscape when making product decisions?
### Change
- What do you do when starting a new role?
- Tell me about a time you came up with a better way to do something at a previous job and implemented those changes on the team/organization.
- Can you provide an example of a time when you had to adapt your product due to changes in the market or user needs? What was your approach and what was the outcome?
### On the role of a Product Manager
- How did you become a product manager?
- What valuable lessons have you learned in the last 12 months that you wish you knew when you started?
### Innovation
- What do you think are the biggest trends or opportunities in the industry right now? How would you capitalize on them as a product manager?
- Can you share an example of when you introduced an innovative solution to a problem or challenge within a product?
### Team Management
- How do you motivate your team members to perform at their best?
- Can you provide an example of when you had to give constructive feedback to a team member? How did you approach it?
### Technical Knowledge
- How would you rate your technical expertise, and how does it help you in your role as a product manager?
- How do you collaborate with technical team members to ensure a shared understanding of the product requirements and constraints?