Thursday, July 8, 2010

Product Manager Interview Questions

So - here are the key questions I've compiled that one should expect in a PM interview. Please feel free to add more if you have them!







- Why do you want to be a PM?
- Why do you want to work at this company?
- What do you know about this market?
- What do you think are our customer's biggest pains?
- Tell me your favorite products (online/offline) and explain why
- Give me 3 websites that you believe have great user experiences and why - how could you improve their experience.
- How do you plan to convince a developer to do things your way?
- Tell me about a time when you had to decide on several priorities.
- Describe your product experiences.
- What do you like/dislike about our site - give examples of how you'd improve the experience
- How would you grow our product - give detailed examples and discuss the market for these opportunities
- Case: If you had an existing client that was asking for you to deliver them a new feature and a new client who needed your developer's time in order to implement, how would you make the decision between them? Basically both required the exact same time from developers.
- How do you plan to spend your time as a Product Manager?
- What is your experience as a project manager?
- What do you know about relationary tables? (This is a SQL question - learn basic SQL!)

QUESTIONS FROM OTHER WEBSITES:
http://www.job-interview-site.com/product-manager-interview-questions-and-answers.html
http://www.instigatorblog.com/product-manager-startups/2009/10/14/
http://blog.seattleinterviewcoach.com/2009/02/140-google-interview-questions.html#product_manager
http://bit.ly/vtxvS

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