- Tell me about yourself.
- Tell me about the most boring job you have ever had.
- What changes would you make if you came on board?
- What would you say to your boss if he is crazy about an idea, but you think it stinks?
- Assuming that you are selected, what will be your strategy for next 60 days?
- why are not you earning more money at this stage of your career?
- Why should we hire you?
- Looking back, what would you do differently in your life?
- What are your weaknesses?
- Tell me something about our company.
- Why should I hire you from the outside when I could promote someone from within?
- What is the difference between confidence and over-confidence?
- Tell me honestly about the strong points and weak points of your boss (company, management team, etc.)
- Why are you leaving your job?
- How do you like LinkedIn's endorse feature?
- What would you do the next 2 years if you were CEO of the company?
- What's your approach to hiring?
- How could you have improved your career progress?
- Describe your ideal company, location and job.
- Is consensus always a good thing?
- Who has the ultimate accountability for shipping a product?
- What are your strengths?
- Would you lie for the company?
- On a scale of one to ten, rate me as an interviewer.
- Who has inspired you in your life and why?
- How do you feel about reporting to a younger person?
- If you won $10 million lottery, would you still work?
- What makes you angry?
- Which do you like first, the good news or the bad news?
- What are your goals?
- What kinds of people do you like to work with?
- Aren't you overqualified for this position?
- How long would you expect to work for us if hired?
- What was the toughest decision you ever had to make?
- What motivates you to do good job?
- Could you have done better in your last job?
- How much salary do you expect?
- Can you work under pressure?
- Give me an example of your creativity.
- What are your career options right now?
- Where do you see yourself in five years?
- Do you manage people from different functions differently? If so, how?
- What have you learned about saying no?
- How do you get a team to commit to a schedule?
- How do you prioritize a list of product features?
- What do you like to do in your spare time?
- What's the difference between management and leadership?
- How has your tolerance for mistakes changed over the years?
- Have you considered starting your own business?
- Select a product you use everyday and discuss its weaknesses.
- What would somebody do to lose your confidence?
- Why do you want to work here?
- What types of people have you found it difficult to work with?
- How do you feel about working nights and weekends?
- How do you define success and how do you measure up to your own definition?
- What is the difference between hard work and smart work?
- Tell me about a setback you've faced. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about a time you had to use emotional intelligence to lead.
- If I called up your teammates, how do you think they would describe you?
- Tell me about a challenging interaction with a team member.
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a tough decision.
- Tell me about a time when you influenced a team.
- Tell me about a time you had to deal with a teammate who was underperforming
- Tell me about a time you gave a presentation to people who disagree with you
- Tell me about a challenge you've faced. How did you overcome it?
- Tell me about a time when you had to build or motivate a team.
- Tell me about a time you had to make a controversial decision
- Tell me about a situation when your work was criticized.
- Tell me about a mistake you made. What happened, and what did you learn from it?
- Tell me about a difficult failure you experienced.
- Tell me about a time when you disagreed with someone.
- What was the toughest challenge you have ever faced?
- How many pairs of eyeglasses are sold every year in the US?
- How much money do people spend on haircut every year in the US?
- How many people are currently online in France?
- How many basketballs are purchased every year?
- How many police officers are in the US?
- How long would it take to empty a hot tub using only a drinking straw?
- Estimate McDonald's revenue.
- How many windows are in new york?
- How many iPhones are sold in the US each year?
- How much money does facebook make in ads every year?
- How many schools are in the US?
- Estimate how much it costs to run Flickr for a 20 GB user.
- How many elevators do you need for a 50-story building?
- How many queries per second does Gmail get?
- How much tennis balls fit in a 2 bedrooms apartment?
- How much does a schoolbus weigh?
- How much does the US spend on dog food each year?
- If you were responsible for Microsoft phones, what would you do?
- How would you price the Kindle Fire HD?
- How does LinkedIn make money, and what are the biggest threats?
- What feature would you build to improve Google+? And what metrics would you track to determine success?
- If you were CEO of Yahoo!, what would your strategy be?
- Describe the strategy behind Google entering the cell phone market
- Start a new category, division, or international market for Amazon. Which one did you choose and why?
- Suggest a killer feature to improve LinkedIn? And what metrics would you track to determine success?
- 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. What metrics will you look at to evaluate success of a product?
- Amazon has ads on its website for products you can buy on other websites. Why do you think is the strategy here? Is it a good idea?
- If you were Amazon, would you launch the service in India? Why or why not? How would you do this?
- Google launched a new program: Google Trusted Stores. Why is Google Trusted Stores strategically important for the company?
- 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?
- 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?
- How does Google make money, and what are the biggest threats?
- 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.
- You are the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber?
- Should Amazon launch a smartphone?
- Which Google product or service don't make sense to you? why?
- If you were Google's CEO, would you be concerned about Microsoft?
- Imagine you were considering launching a new social network service. What would your strategy be?
- Facebook bought Instagram for about $2B, even though Instagram was making no money. Why do you think Facebook did this?
- What do you think LinkedIn can do on the iPhone that is truly groundbreaking?
- You have a choice between selling a new oven or an oven mitt. Which one do you choose and why?
- Imagine you were considering launching two services which have similar revenues and costs. How would you decide which one to pursue?
- Choose a company that you believe provides a world-class customer experience. What do they do well?
- How would you design a house for giraffes?
- How would you improve Google's Chrome browser?
- How would you improve restaurant search?
- Design an elevator control system.
- How would you improve Microsoft PowerPoint?
- How would you design a bookcase for children?
- Tell me about a product you like and use frequently. Why do you like it? Can you list your favorite features?
- Tell me about something that was designed poorly. Why do you think it was built this way? How would you improve it?
- Now imagine you have to build a new feature for this app, what feature would this be?
- How would you prioritize the work?
- What metrics would you measure for success?
- Should technology govern the end user experience, or should end user experience govern the technology.
- Google shut down a location sharing service called Google Latitude on August 2013. How would you redesign and re-launch a location-sharing app?
- How would you improve image search?
- Tell me about a product that was designed poorly.
- How will you improve LinkedIn's home page?
- The billboard industry is under monetized. How can Google create a new product or offering to address this?
- How would you design an oven for a person in a wheelchair
- Re-design a garage door opener.
- Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet.
- How would you improve the LinkedIn mobile app?
- How would you improve LinkedIn's signup process?
- How would you improve Google Maps?
- Google Maps is launching a new version for schools, how would you design this?
- 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?
- You are the product manager for Google+. What killer feature would you build?
- Design an alarm clock for the blind
- How would you design a blogging application?
- Design a first to market wearable product for consumers.
- What's the most technically challenging thing you've worked on? How did you overcome that challenge?
- When I type a URL into Chrome and hit enter, explain how the website is retrieved.
- What's the difference between a front-end and back-end developer tool? Can you list pros/cons of each?
- Explain object-oriented programming to your grandmother.
- Write an algorithm that detects meeting conflicts.
- How would you reduce Gmail's storage size?
- You're part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites?
- Brainstorm as many algorithms as possible for recommending Twitter followers.
- Explain recursion.
- There's a server bottleneck. How would you solve it?
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