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What would you change about the product?
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Why do you want to work for us?
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What are your strengths and weaknesses?
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How much budget do you think is required to maintain Facebook Photos?
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What was a challenging situation you faced?
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How would you find the number of times 1 appears on a digital clock in a 24 hour period?
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What's your favorite product and how would you improve it?
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Why should we hire you over other candidates?
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How will you output a tree in column sequence from left to right?
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How much revenue does Youtube make in a year?
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How did you make certain product decisions in previous projects?
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What would you change or improve in an existing Google product?
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What is the probability of getting four of a kind in five tries?
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How would you manage a difficult boss?
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What product should Google build next?
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What do you want to tell me about yourself?
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How would you find out if a web site or online posting for a business is spam?
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What is your experience with SQL?
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How would you write a product specification?
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How would you estimate the bandwidth required for a college campus?
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How would you design elevators for a building?
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What is a Virtual Private Network?
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How would you prioritize X and Y projects?
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How many elevators should an office building have?
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What are the complications in C when you try to typecast an Integer to an enum?
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What makes you a good fit for this position?
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How would you introduce a new feature to the site?
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When was the last time you sacrificed a long term value to complete a short term task?
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What are the things Netflix should measure/analyze on a daily basis?
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How would you design a product that increases the consumption of fruit in the US?
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What would you improve about the starbucks app?
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How would you suggest features for a grocery app?
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Tell us about your education.
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Tell me about a product you launched.
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What are your salary expectations?
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How would you improve the Audible app?
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What do you know about networking?
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How would you estimate the required data storage when Gmail was initially launched?
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What is your favorite product of Google?
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Design something and prioritize it.
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Tell me about a time when you failed as a product manager.
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What is a project you are proud of?
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What are your top achievements?
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If you were CEO of Amazon, what would be your first step?
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How would you design a new feature for Twitter that improves the new user experience?
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If you were the product manager of (unnamed product), how would you improve its functionality 10x?
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Please select any one of your projects and we will discuss in detail about that project.
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How do you determine the significance of an A/B test?
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What have you learned about yourself recently?
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How would you implement the process flow to accomplish the goals of this position?
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Design a voice search engine.
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What made you want to get into product management?
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What is your favorite application and how would you improve it?
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How would you develop a competing product?
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What do you know about 'X' product?
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What would be your first project in our site?
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Tell us about your experience in product management.
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How would you design an app for a theme park?
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If you had unlimited budget to meet your goals, what would you do and why?
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How would you prioritize the features?
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How did you handle a situation where the engineers were unable to build out a requirement as intended?
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How will you find the number of gas stations in the UK?
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How will you get along with their current employees?
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How would you build a better gmail?
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If you are hosting a celebrity website and suddenly notice a drop in traffic to your site/clicks on ads, how do you root cause the issue?
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What did you learn from your failure?
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What do you know about Amazon Web Services?
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How would you design the architecture for an URL shortening service?
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What data would you need to make a decision?
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How would you calculate the price of Amazon Prime membership?
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Can you do multiple things at once?
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How will you find the number of bus drivers in San Francisco?
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How would you estimate the market size of X?
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How would you determine the appropriate price and method to promote this ___________ product?
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What are the qualifications for this job?
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What products do you admire most?
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How do you feel working with data scientists?
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How would you improve the performance of a theoretical Web app?
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What are the areas where Google is under invested?
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How would you handle a team member who turns in work late?
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How will you improve our company?
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How were you involved in the success of a product launch?
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If you were the PM for Windows phone, how would you make it successful?
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Tell me about a process you learned or developed at your previous job which you feel is valuable enough to take with you to your future position.
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If you have to design a telephone, how would you go about it?
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How much does it cost to run Google photos?
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Tell me about a time when you used data or KPIs to make a product decision?
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If you were tasked with creating a new product relevant to Google's existing product line that targeted at people using public transit, what would you do?
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What was the hardest design challenge you've faced?
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How will you interpret this chart?
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What do you think makes you a good fit for Google?
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How do you learn new things?
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What do you know about our company?
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Can you tell us more about your previous experience?
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How would you create a presentation around some aspect of Fitbit?
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Why did you leave your last job?
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How would you improve our product?
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How would you grow traffic by 10 times?
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How do you prioritize your work?
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What is an existing product and how would you improve it?
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How would you grow an online t-shirt business?
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How would you find the location of a user that connects to internet services through a browser?
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Why do you want to be a product manager at OneLogin?
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If you could make any product, what would it be?
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How would you release google maps in Mongolia?
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How do you use JIRA?
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How would you propose a new product to be introduced and/or developed?
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How do you get your ideas into the roadmap?
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How many ping pong balls can you fit into a warehouse?
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What industry is going through disruption?
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What attracted you to this position?
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Tell me about a project you recently completed, and the challenges in completing it.
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Select an app that you like, and tell me how can it be improved.
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How will you solve a problem?
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How does the ranking algorithm work?
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What is the reason for Starbucks to expand in such a way?
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Can you spend 2-8 hours over the course of 3 days on an analysis?
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How would you design a dictionary lookup for Scrabble?
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Can you tell me about your last project?
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If Airbnb is supply-constrained, how would you unlock additional supply?
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What do you know about this position?
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Why would you be lucky to get a job at Amazon?
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What is a product manager's job?
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What is your biggest failure in the past two years?
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How do you launch a product?
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How would you make a program accessible for someone who is blind?
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How have you worked with different personalities in the past?
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What will you implement?
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What are the qualities of a good Product Manager?
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What would you do to create a successful start-up?
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What is the primary source of revenue for Google?
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Case Study: How would you analyze the new line of business?
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Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager.
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Tell me about a time when you were proud of your work.
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How much would it cost to implement a product improvement for the entire US?
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How many times must each team play each other if they only have to play each other once and there are 15 teams?
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How would you market Windows 8 pre-packaged product?
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How would you build a computer for someone who is parapleigic?
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How do you design Instagram?
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What is your role?
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How would you revolutionize the car wash industry?
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Explain the concept of "protocol" to a 4-year-old child using "ice cream store" as an analogy.
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What mobile device do you use and what apps do you have?
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Case study: How would you design a simplified version of google's search page?
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What do you think about social media landscape in 10 years?
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How would you explain recursion to a 7-year-old?
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How do you gain marketshare in a segment where you are a challenger with 2-3 strong leaders and you don't necessarily have a differentiated product?
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What tools and processes are you familiar with for collecting and analyzing data?
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How would you reduce bandwidth consumption in search?
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Based on this data, what marketing channel should we pursue?
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Tell me about a time when you saw an opportunity for improvement.
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What was the most innovative idea you've ever had?
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What could cause a decrease in sales of magazine XYZ on Amazon's website?
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How do you prioritize as a product manager?
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What are the pros and cons of multithreading?
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How would you increase the adoption of Google Fiber?
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How would you measure customer satisfaction?
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What are you working on?
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How would you convince executive management to change their mind?
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Why are you looking for a new job?
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How would you set the pricing strategy for Amazon web services?
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What position do you prefer?
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How would you design a web-based application for collaborative work?
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What would you build next for our postcards feature?
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How will self-driving cars change our lives?
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How many products exactly like ours have you designed and launched?
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How would you grow Reddit to reach 1B users?
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Tell me about the time you failed.
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How would you encourage your team to deliver a particular feature by a particular date?
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How do you prioritize user stories?
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What would you do if your product's revenue is down?
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What negotiation skills do you have?
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Tell me about a time when you had to work with someone difficult and how did you handle it?
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How will you describe the operation of Layer 2 (Data Link Layer) of the 7-layer ISO stack?
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How would you implement a solar panels project to put solar panels on several NY buildings?
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Can you tell me about a time when you made a mistake and how did you handle it?
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Tell me about a time when you made a decision that was not popular and how did you handle it?
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How will you remove every other node from a linked list?
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How would my experience at a software company help me in this role?
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How will you work with international teams?
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Tell me about a time when you took a risk.
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How would you determine the outline of a skyline?
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How would you handle a situation where the deadline is missed?
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How would you improve Google Calendar?
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How would you design an X product for Y?
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What are your goals?
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What do you like and dislike about working in a high growth startup?
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How would you estimate the annual gasoline expenses for Pizza Hut in San Francisco?
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How would you add any Microsoft product to a restaurant?
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How will you increase user engagement?
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What would a gas station look like in 25 years?
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Tell me about a challenge you faced at your previous job.
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How would you evaluate this feature?
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How do you make trade-off decisions in go to market planning?
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How would you address a project that's demanding with large scope and aggressive timeline?
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What are the 10 things you had at your previous job that you kept in your back pocket for driving real, large-scale change?
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What would be your strategy for a specific disease?
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How will you describe your product in 30 seconds?
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How would you maximize your chances of winning the jackpot in a slot machine setup?
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Describe a product that does not go well and how you would change it.
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What do you think about this role?
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Think of a new product or business for Amazon, and describe how you would decide to create the product and launch it.
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How do you prioritize features as a PM?
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Do you think that you are a good fit for this position?
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How will you design a dashboard for your boss?
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Tell me about a project where you had the greatest impact and how did you use data to drive your decision making process.
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How will you calculate the time it takes for Street View car to collect footage in a city?
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What are some unusual uses for a traffic cone?
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Do you have a work visa?
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How do you work with other engineers?
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Can you make a decision quickly and stand by it?
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How would you build a finance app?
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What is an example of a failed product launch and what went wrong, how you could've fixed it.
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What excites you about Product Management?
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How would you design a travel app?
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How do you resolve conflicts?
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How would you verify the hours of operation for all business listings on Google maps?
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What are some of the projects you've worked on?
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Where do you see yourself in 5 years from now?
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What are the most important values in a company you would like to work for?
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How do you prioritize your backlog?
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What is the meaning of loss ratio?
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What do you think about this website? How would you improve it?
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How will you handle a URL in browser?
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How would you estimate the number of piano tuners in a city?
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Can you give an example of where you took a product from cradle to grave?
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How would you drive long term value from customers?
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What product (Google or other) has blown you away when you first saw it?
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This question tests the candidate's ability to work with numbers and to think creatively.
Overview
This question tests the candidate's ability to work with numbers and to think creatively.
Interview Expectations
Creative solution
Knowledge of basic math
Knowledge of time
Sample Answer
I would use a formula that multiplies the hours by the minutes, then divides by 60.