Decode and Conquer · Answers to Product Management Interviews by Lin, Lewis -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Critiquing Design

Practice Questions Answers

How do you like LinkedIn’s endorse feature? Tell me about a product you like and use frequently. Why do you like it? Tell me about a product that was designed poorly.

Chapter 2 Designing a Desktop Application

What is the CIRCLES Method™? Tip on using the CIRCLES Method™ Practice Question Answer

How would you improve Microsoft PowerPoint?

Chapter 3 Designing a Webpage or Website

Tip: Interview Visually Practice Questions Answers

How will you improve LinkedIn’s home page? How would you improve LinkedIn’s signup process? How would you improve image search? How would you improve restaurant search? How would you improve Google Maps? You are the product manager for Google+. What killer feature would you build? How would you improve Google’s Chrome browser?

Chapter 4 Designing a Mobile App

Tip: Memorize Design Best Practices Practice Questions Answers

Google shut down a location sharing service called Google Latitude on August 2013. How would you redesign and re-launch a location-sharing app? Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet. How would you improve the LinkedIn mobile app?

Chapter 5 Designing a Consumer Product

Tip: Don’t Blindly Follow Frameworks Practice Question Answer

Re-design a garage door opener.

Chapter 6 Designing a Service or Other Product

Tip: Ask the Five Whys to Understand Unarticulated Problems Practice Questions Answers

Assume you are the new product manager in our Amazon Prime business and are in charge of feature development. What data would you look at to develop new features? What new features would they be? The billboard industry is under monetized. How can Google create a new product or offering to address this?

Chapter 7 Getting Technical

How to Approach a Technical Interview Question Practice Questions Answers

Brainstorm as many algorithms as possible for recommending Twitter followers. Explain recursion. Explain object-oriented programming to your grandmother. How would you reduce Gmail’s storage size? How would you design a blogging application? You’re part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites? Write an algorithm that detects meeting conflicts. Design an elevator control system. There’s a server bottleneck. How would you solve it?

Chapter 8 Getting Analytical: Estimation

Top Down Estimation Method Bottom Up Estimation Method Practice Questions Answers

Estimate McDonald’s revenue. How many queries per second does Gmail get? How many iPhones are sold in the US each year? Estimate how much it costs to run Flickr for a 20GB user. How many elevators do you need for a 50-story building?

Chapter 9 Getting Analytical: Pricing

How to Approach a Pricing Problem Practice Questions Answers

How would you price the Kindle Fire HD? Assume you are the new product manager in our Amazon Prime business and are deciding pricing. The vice president would like to lower the price from $79.99 per year to $69.99 per year. Making your own assumptions, develop the financial projections for this decision.

Chapter 10 Getting Analytical: Metrics

How to Approach Metrics Questions What are the AARM Metrics™? What are the Three Loops™? Tip: Making Decisions from A/B Test Results Practice Question Answers

What metrics will you look at to evaluate success of a product? Suggest a killer feature to improve LinkedIn? And what metrics would you track to determine success? What feature would you build to improve Google+? And what metrics would you track to determine success?

Chapter 11 Strategizing: Trade-offs

Practice Questions Answers

Amazon launched display advertisements on its web page, and it was a highly controversial decision within the company. Pick either the pro or con side of the argument and explain your position for or against including ads on the site. Now tell me why display advertising is a bad decision.

Chapter 12 Strategizing: New Market entry

How to Approach Strategy Questions on New Market Entry New Market Entry Checklist Practice Questions Answers

Start a new category, division, or international market for Amazon. Which one did you choose and why? You have a choice between selling a new oven or an oven mitt. Which one do you choose and why? An aspiring Amazon product manager proposes to Jeff Bezos that Amazon should sell groceries from neighborhood markets. What are the pros and cons of this idea?

Chapter 13 Strategizing: CEO-level Issues

How to Approach CEO-level Strategy Questions Practice Questions Answers

You’re Larry Page. The head of corporate development tells you that Quora is in play, and both Microsoft and Facebook are bidding for it. Should Google participate in the discussions? Why? You are the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber? If you were Google’s CEO, would you be concerned about Microsoft? How does Google make money, and what are the biggest threats? How does LinkedIn make money, and what are the biggest threats? Google launched a new program: Google Trusted Stores. Why is Google Trusted Stores strategically important for the company? Should Amazon launch a smartphone? Choose a company that you believe provides a world-class customer experience. What do they do well?

Chapter 14 Creating Vision

How to Approach Vision Questions Practice Question Answer

Choose one of these verticals. Where do you think it’ll be in ten years? What do you think LinkedIn can do on the iPhone that is truly groundbreaking?

Chapter 15 Passing the Stress Test

How to Approach the Stress Test Practice Question Answer

Look at this diagram. Where would you place yourself, and why?

Chapter 16 Winning the Behavioral Interview

Common Behavioral Interview Questions at the PM Interview Why Behavioral Interviews Are Becoming More Popular What Interviewers Are Looking For How to Approach a Behavioral Interview Question What is the DIGS method™? Practice Question Answer

Tell me a time when you influenced engineering to build a particular feature.

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