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Contents
Adobe .............................................................................................................................................................3
Amazon ........................................................................................................................................................10
Atlassian .......................................................................................................................................................20
BrowserStack ...............................................................................................................................................25
Cisco.............................................................................................................................................................27
Disney+ Hotstar ...........................................................................................................................................28
EA Sports .....................................................................................................................................................30
Eightfold AI .................................................................................................................................................31
Estee Advisors ..............................................................................................................................................32
InfoEdge .......................................................................................................................................................33
Media.net ......................................................................................................................................................37
Microsoft ......................................................................................................................................................42
Optum...........................................................................................................................................................53
Oracle ...........................................................................................................................................................60
PharmEasy ...................................................................................................................................................63
PhonePe ........................................................................................................................................................64
Sprinklr.........................................................................................................................................................65
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Adobe
2024:
Experience: 01
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question: Which is Your favourite product, and why is it your favourite? (I answered Myntra) It is
advised to answer the favourite product question in a format. However, the interviewer needed to allow
me to follow a proper format and greatly grilled me on whatever I said. So the suggestion would be to
analyse the favourite product in depth and whatever you say, good or bad, back it up with proper points.
Question: Design a watch for blind people. There is a proper structure to follow while answering
product design questions. Also, followed the MECE approach, like a watch can be a wristwatch, neck
watch, or digital watch.
Recommendations:
Be involved with the interviewer; don't make it a question-and-answer interview where the interviewer
asks you a question and you are just answering it. Make it a conservational interview. Go with an open
mind this will help you to think from all perspectives, which is a key to clear the PM interview.
They asked me a lot about my work-ex, and how I could use my experience in Adobe. So be thoroughly
prepared with work-ex, project you did, learnings, etc.
Experience: 02
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question: What is your favourite product and why
Question: Critique your favourite app
Question: How would you improve Google Maps
Experience: 03
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question: Which is your favorite product, possible improvements in the same product and why those
improvements.
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2023:
Experience: 04
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Round 1Question:
1. They asked me to introduce myself and my work experience. When I told them ProdMan is my
go-to preference here, they started ridiculing product managers and told me that a Product
Manager hardly does any work. Most of the work is done by engineers and other
stakeholders.(In a way, they were asking me to explain what a product manager does).
2. A question on how to increase the number of Amazon Prime Video users in a short time.
3. Asked me if I had all the resources in the world, what problem would I solve using a product.
Response:
1. I defended that it is not an easy job and told them how it is the PM's job to decide which
customer needs should be prioritized and how a PM must be involved with multiple
stakeholders and ensure everyone's interest is taken care of, how it is the responsibility of the
PM to drive the overall success of the product.
2. It was agreed that since we must achieve this quickly, new feature developments won’t be the
go-to way. We discussed that the best way would be to change the pricing strategy. Overall, this
judged my overall understanding of the market and how to arrive at a reasonable price point.
The interviewees were driving the interview and were telling me that a particular approach was
wrong and that I should think of something else. Ultimately, we narrowed it down to giving
Prime Video as a standalone service. Currently, it is bundled with Prime Music, Prime Delivery
Etc. This standalone service would be less costly.
3. I told them about my passion for travelling (User Persona) all problems I faced (Pain Points),
and how I would like to build a platform for travellers using AI where my Itinerary would be
automated according to my liking while building a community of like-minded travellers
Round 2Question:
1. They told me they had reviewed my CV and found my research paper on ML (Neural networks)
interesting. They started a discussion on the same. Then they asked me about a particular type of
algorithm that I had yet to hear of. I told them that my work revolved around neural networks
only. (They were asking questions to know my depth of knowledge here)
2. Asked me to use AI/ML to improve any of Adobe Products
3. Asked to design a Toaster for a blind man (I was only to mention the features it would have and
my rationale behind it)
Response:
1. Since I have been pursuing Photography as a hobby, I have used many Adobe products due to
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the same. I had already known that such a question might be asked and had prepared an answer.
I picked up Adobe Lightroom (Their Photo Editing app). I told them how difficult it was to
search photos in the app library and how AI could solve it by binning them into specific
categories via image recognition
2. I pressed upon features that were mainly towards the safety side of the customer. Like voice
prompts, sensors for auto-off, Haptic feedback, etc.
Experience: 05
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Round 1:
Question: The first round was a technical interview round where questions were asked about the most
frequent app used by the interviewee (to which he replied Google Pay) and then the interviewer asked
him to analyze the app in terms of features that he likes, dislikes, most important features, any new
features that can be added and KPIs related to it.
Round 2:
Question: The second round was also a technical interview round where the interviewee was asked
questions about any three apps that the interviewee has on his phone (the interviewee mentioned
Google Pay, Spotify, and Google Maps). Then he asked him to pick any app (the interviewee chose
Spotify) and analyze it in terms of features, improvements, etc. After that, the interviewer asked him
about the expansion strategy of Spotify into the podcast domain and whether it was the right move.
Finally, the interviewer asked the interviewee about his
opinion on Spotify’s algorithm for suggesting music to listeners based on genre.
Experience: 06
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Round 1
Question:
1. Brief Introduction about yourself?
2. Tell us about a challenge you have faced and overcame it?
3. Why do you wish to pursue product management?
4. Explain about some of the projects that you have worked on?
5. Tell us about few Adobe products?
6. Design a user support system for adobe photoshop?
7. How do you measure the success of a chatbot? KPIs of bot(chatbot, voicebot)?
8. Talk about any two of your favourite products? Pick one and improve it.
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9. If google maps comes up with a wearable device (like a watch). What user segment should it
target and what will be the needs it satisfies?
Responses:
1. Gave the interviewer answers that I prepared in advance.
2. Had a candid discussion on social-media escalations and concerns raised against IT companies,
their products/services. It’s effect on firm’s reputation and psychological stress.
3. Gave my prepared answer of Why Product Management and what motivates me
4. Spoke about my past work experience and how it aligns with product management
5. I’ve mentioned that I haven’t used much of Adobe Products except for Acrobat
Reader, but am familiar and have basic idea about other products too.
6. An unconventional design question, hence I started off with circles framework but had to go
distinctively.
7. Mentioned about the metrices including those of customer satisfaction, response time and
engagement
8. Gave my prepared answer with proper reasoning. Followed the Circles framework
while answering it. Did not make it evident that I’ve prepared and come.
9. Segregated the user segment based on demographics, discussed about the pain points and then
came up with a solution.
2021
Experience: 07
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question: Develop a product which is to compete with Microsoft Word, and while developing the
product, keep in mind the product should be designed in a manner so that it can sustain itself for the
next 30 years.
I followed the CIRCLE framework and was given answers down the way. It was finalised that the
product is to be designed for students. I suggested the problems and the solutions for it but the feedback
provided was that some of the solutions already existed and some were not feasible.
Experience: 08
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question: Tell me about yourself, your favourite product, any potential improvements, different Adobe
products and improvements, and the metrics you measure while implementing a new feature in your
favourite Adobe product.
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Response: Generic Intro while including previous experience of Product Management, Cricheroes (A
Cricket App) and community building in the App, Adobe Scan and OCR/ Scanning real-life products,
DAU/MAU and Revenue.
Question: Intro, Why Product Management, Favourite App, What is an ERP and what are the key
metrics to be a leader in this space, Blockchain and its uses.
Response: Intro which covered a bit of personal interest in product management, Cricheroes, Told them
about ERP and the different metrics such as security, robustness, readiness of getting the data etc.
Blockchain working, Proof of Work, Bitcoin, immutable and incorruptible nature of Blockchain and
gave few examples from my work-ex
Experience: 09
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question:
1. The interview started with me being asked about three apps which I regularly use. The interviewer
then picked one of the three apps and then discussed with me about a new feature I would like the app to
have, relevance and implementation challenges in Indian context, monetization avenues. The discussion
was in depth and continued for about 20 min.
2. The interviewer asked me to compare Netflix and Hotstar in India, growth strategy for both of them in
long run, discussion on content v/s pricing strategy, the relevance of tier 2/3 cities and how to capture
subscribers there
Experience: 10
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question: Some questions from the CV 2. Opinion on how Netflix is doing in India 3. How will you
increase penetration of Netflix in India by 4X in 3 years? (We touched upon pricing as well because
pricing was mentioned by me in the previous answer)
Experience: 11
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question
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1.
The interview started with me being asked about three apps which I regularly use. The
interviewer then picked one of the three apps and discussed with me a new feature I would like
the app to have, relevance and implementation challenges in the Indian context, and monetization
avenues. The discussion was in-depth and continued for about 20 min.
2. The interviewer asked me to compare Netflix and Hotstar in India, the growth strategy for both
of them in the long run, discussion on content v/s pricing strategy, the relevance of tier 2/3 cities
and how to capture subscribers there
Experience: 12
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question:
1.
Some questions from the CV
2.
Opinion on how Netflix is doing in India
3.
How will you increase penetration of Netflix in India by 4X in 3 years? (We touched upon
pricing as well because pricing was mentioned by me in the previous answer)
Experience: 13
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question:
1. Work ex-based Questions.
2. Opinion on Microsoft acquiring Slack.
3. Why PM?
4. Why Adobe?
5. Introduce a new feature in any Adobe product using ML
2020:
Experience: 14
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question:
Interview Round 1:
1. Design a washing machine for the blind.
2. How can you monetize WhatsApp?
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Interview Round 2:
1. Why Adobe?
2. Are you interested in the B2B space?
3. Should we give our enterprise solution to small and medium businesses?
Experience: 15
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question: Design a washing machine for blind.
Experience: 16
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question:
1. How would you make Ola/Uber app better?
2. Explain one feature that you would build for Twitter
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Amazon
Interview: 1
Year: 2018
Role: Vendor Manager Interview
Rounds: 60-90 mins
1. Amazon 14 principles, HRQ based on same, sound knowledge of latest happenings in ecommerce, latest Amazon news, sound knowledge of the industry. 2 Cases based on ecommerce were discussed
2. Guesstimate - Average TV orders per month on Amazon
Interview: 2
Year: 2018
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Interview started with introduction. Followed by question on work experience and some HR questions
on challenges, failures, learning, why Amazon, etc.
Why Product Management, website you use most and develop a new feature for it and metrics for it.
Guesstimates on number of trees in IIMA.
Anything to keep in mind?
HRQs, Guesstimates, 14 leadership principles
Interview: 3
Year: 2018
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 2
First round was about a few hrqs and pm. I was asked why amazon, where I answered in terms which
was coherent with their core values like customer obsession, cutting edge technology and innovation
and talented workforce to learn from. Next question was one thing that I hated about amazon app. I
answered that on the lines of UI for fashion products. Then the final question was how would you
design amazon app for 60+ population. The answers included the UI design, what products to sell, then
how would it be delivered and how would design the payment process. Then what would happen after
the order has been placed. What would happen at the moment when the delivery is being made. I
answered them on the basis that an old man needs someone to talk to. So, in oils let him know a bit
about the delivery boy in advance that he has made 10000 deliveries and his hobbies are reading and
singing. So when the delivery is made the older might want to know a bit about the delivery boy more.
Then he could also ask if he should unpack the delivery as it would difficult for an old man at times to
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unwrap the delivered package.
Second round was about more based on resume and they were trying hard to grill me. They would pick
any word from my statement and say you are wrong. Just smile and answer them.
Anything to keep in mind?
Remember the core principles by heart. Tell them that I am customer obsessive and I think backwards
from a customer paint point perspective.
Interview: 4
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 2
The online assessment is a simulation-based test, mostly on the Amazon leadership principles. Interview
Round 1:
1. Experience based questions (projects descriptions, evaluation of contribution, future scope
of work, technical skills and expertise used and learnt)
PM Related questions:
1. What do you think are major pain points of an online shopper?
2. Does amazon solve these?
3. What is a customer journey on an Amazon app/website like?
4. Say you want to start selling paints on Amazon, Design a customer journey for the same.
(discussions around everything from changes on website/app to enable a novice paint buyer
make a convenient purchase, data and research required, inventory management, brand
associations, delivery speed, finances and budgeting, etc)
Interview Round 2 (mostly HR based):
1. What motivates you to work for amazon?
2. Why PM?
3. Discussions around awareness of amazon businesses and new projects
Interview: 5
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Tell me about a feature you developed at your workplace?
2. From Candidate’s resume, why couldn't this feature be done like something else?
3. After seeing quizzing in Candidate’s resume, asked to develop an app for quizzing.
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Interview: 6
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Case: Amazon wants to enter into selling wall paints.
1. How will you go about it?
2. What will be the customer journey?
3. Which will be the best way to launch it: on amazon.com website or on webpage or all
together a different website?
Interview: 7
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Why Product Management?
3. Work-ex related questions (on cloud computing). What tech stack did I work on and what was
the business use of my work.
4. Design a skill for Alexa geared for artists, come up with target customers, monetization
potential and integration with the Amazon ecosystem.
Interview: 8
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Tell me about yourself and your work experience
2. Work-ex related questions (on AI and cloud)
3. What products/features of Amazon do you like the most? (answered Amazon
recommendations and Alexa)
4. What seems missing in the recommendations and how can you improve them?
5. Describe a novel use case where Alexa can be used and design a product around that. How
will you measure its success?
6. How can Alexa be used for home-cooks?
7. What should Prime do differently in comparison to Flipkart plus to grow?
8. Should Amazon bring down the price of Prime subscription? How can Amazon bring down
the cost of Prime?
Interview: 9
12
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Why product management?
2. You could have become a product manager without an MBA as well, then why MBA?
3. Why PhonePe?
4. In what team you worked in Amazon. Explain in detail.
5. What is your favourite app and why?
6. Ans: Explained Google Maps is favourite and provided why is it favourite.
7. Any feature you would want to improve in your favourite app?
8. What feature would you like to improve/add in phonePe?
9. Have you worked in any startup or thought about working in one?
10. What kind of work do you like more, initiating some new project or growing and scaling up
some existing feature/project?
Interview: 10
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. CV Based: Elaborate your work-ex. What was you value addition?
2. Product Launch case: How would you implement a device exchange feature? (Here they were
talking about Amazon product/website/app where someone is not only buying but exchanging
devices (phone, tablet, watch, etc.) using the Amazon platform.
3. Situation Analysis: Asked numerous questions on behavioural choices. The basis of such
question was Amazon Leadership Principles
Interview: 11
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Explain your work experience. From the CV, picked one statement on person-hour
reduction using automation, and asked to the process behind that
2. Your CV is more suitable for Product, why Program management?
3. Questions on Amazon’s favourite Product and what can be the role of program &
product manager there
4. Generic HR questions on hobbies, failure incident and what you learn
Interview: 12
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
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Interview Rounds: 1
● Build a product that promotes sports using Data Analytics
Metrics I used to take decisions in few of my projects
● HR Question - Situtation where I managed a conflict
Interview: 13
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
● Asked about work ex and what products I worked on? important features and a critic of the
product was asked.
● Success metrics and challenges in implementing the project was asked.
● Biggest challenge faced in work ex, how you overcame, what was your contribution.
● Follow up questions on work ex product and efficiency improvements I did
● Since I worked in consumer electronics, I was asked what are the 3 key features of
electronic product that the Product manager would be most excited about?
● Suppose you want to introduce an innovative consumer electronic product in India, what would
be the expected problems?
Interview: 14
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
· 2 job related Qs
· What is Swiggy pop? What could be the reason behind it's conception? How would you
price it?
· How would you prepare a recommendation engine?
· Discussion around one my projects in work ex. The project was based on distributed
services. The interviewer asked what were the features? How would you rate your work
today as a product manager (I was a developer during my work ex)
Interview: 15
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Design a coffee machine for office spaces for post-Covid world (discussion points: how to
place the order, how tocollect the coffee, how would the machine be refilled, how to
dispose off the cups)
2. App design for placing the coffee orders
3. Metrics for app evaluation
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4. Product success evaluation (from office management POV)
5. In-depth questions from work ex
Interview: 16
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Case Study: Build a recommendation system for Swiggy
2. HRQ: 1 challenging situation when you persuaded others, 1 failure, 1 innovation at work,
1 instance of research done, 1 situation of conflict at work and how did you solve it, 1
situation when you went beyond what was required of you, walk me through your CV.
Interview: 17
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1 Resume
Questions only.
● What did you do in Video Ads division?
● What were some of the instances when you faced difficulties in getting a project done?
Interview: 18
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
● Favt Amazon Product, said amazon prime, give 2 improvements in Amazon Prime
●
Amazon Prime is launching in Sri Lanka. You need to price the product.
● Redesign the UI of Fire TV Stick to convert loyal DTH customers to Fire TV Stick
Interview: 19
Year: NA
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
● Tell me about yourself
●
Why PM? Asked about Internship and final year project
● Product design: What features would you add for a post covid world coffee vending
machine?
● Take me through the design process.
● How would you measure the success of the new features?
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Interview: 20
Year: 2016
Role: Category Manager
Interview Rounds: 3 (50 mins each)
GD: A case based discussion with three participants that lasted for one hour. A case was provided with
individual questions for each participant. The GD was strictly to test the skills related to the role you
have applied.
First two interviews were telephonic and happened before the final process. I was asked questions both
related to HR and related to category manager's role. Apart from these guesstimates were asked like
estimating number of pizzas sold in India in a week. What will be your priorities if you are made the
CEO of Dominos. How will you manage the Mobile phone category for Amazon?
The final interview on the day of process was mostly to test the HR skills. I was grilled on the questions
like Why Amazon? What is the most difficult conversation I had in last one year.
Planning the operations of ticket window for a new railway station.
Interview: 21
Year: 2021
Role: Program Manager
Interview Rounds: 1(CV submission, Online Test (Amazon work simulation, Psychometric), One
round of interview)
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Questions on work-ex (Detailed with my contribution to it)
3. Questions on internships and hobbies
4. Why Program management?
5. Any weakness, how did you overcome
Interview: 22
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Asked about work ex and what products I worked on? important features and a critic of the
product was asked.
2. Success metrics and challenges in implementing the project was asked.
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3. Biggest challenge faced in work ex, how you overcame, what was your contribution.
4. Follow up questions on work ex product and efficiency improvements i did
5. Instances where you improved productivity /improved team morale.
6. Any questions that i have
Interview: 23
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Design a coffee machine for office spaces for post-Covid world (discussion points: how to place the
order, how to collect the coffee, how would the machine be refilled, how to dispose off the cups)
2. App design for placing the coffee orders
3. Metrics for app evaluation
4. Product success evaluation (from office management POV)
5. In-depth questions from work ex
Interview: 24
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 2
1. 2 job related Qs
2. What is Swiggy pop? What could be the reason behind it's conception? How would you price it?
3. How does recommendations in Netflix works?
Interview: 25
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
1. Favt Amazon Product, said amazon prime, give 2 improvements in Amazon Prime
2. Amazon Prime is launching in Sri Lanka. You need to price the product.
3. Redesign the UI of Fire TV Stick to convert loyal DTH customers to Fire TV Stick
Interview: 26
Year: 2021
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Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Resume Questions only.
1) What did you do in Video Ads division?
2) What were some of the instances when you faced difficulties in getting a project done?
Interview: 27
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Case Study: Build a recommendation system for Swiggy; HRQ: 1 challenging situation when you
persuaded others, 1 failure, 1 innovation at work, 1 instance of research done, 1 situation of conflict at
work and how did you solve it, 1 situation when you went beyond what was required of you, walk me
through your CV.
Interview: 28
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Design a product for a daily wage worker.
Interview: 29
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Build a product that promotes sports using Data Analytics Metrics I
used to take decisions in few of my projects
Interview: 30
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 2 (60 mins each)
Everything is HRQ, not even one technical question
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Interview: 31
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager
Interview Rounds: 1
Targeting + Pricing for a new product - a Screen with collaborative conferencing capabilities (multiple
people with the device can view and share and are able to write on it with a pen) HRQs on team work
General HRQs
App critique of favorite app
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Atlassian
2024
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Question: My interview revolved around the product design submission given in round one and basic
HRQs.
2023:
Experience 2
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02 + 01 submission round
Case Submission
Pick any ride-hailing app and state one feature that sets them apart and one pain point. Design an MVP for
the same.
Put much effort into the submission, as many people are rejected in this round. I submitted a 2- page doc
with a detailed analysis of Uber with many relevant wireframes and frameworks. I identified a redundant
feature in Uber and pointed out that two user flows were available to finish the same task. Moreover, I
designed an MVP to remove ambiguity. Also, I chose the ride recommendation algorithm as the feature
that sets them apart. Uber’s dispatch system uses a batch-matching mechanism that optimizes a shorter
waiting period for the whole network rather than individual requests. Uber depends on this system to
build an effective aggregator service.
Interview
Que1: Could you please walk me through your case submission?
Response: Explained it in detail for a solid 3 minutes
Que2: Okay, but your MVP is not solving the problem. How would data such as the number of cars
available in my locality be helpful to the user?
Response: The current feature must be more accurate as it presents an abstract reality. Why not give the
exact data as it would indicate the probability of getting a cab soon to the users, as many cabs get
cancelled?
Que3: (More grilling) How do you think the uber algorithm works?
Response: Explained the batch mechanism and walked them through the process
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Que4: How would you convince your engineering team to build your feature recommendation?
Response: Gave a generic answer.
Que5: Imagine I’m the engineering manager, I don’t believe in your feature, and I think the existing one
is working as expected. How would you convince me? (was grilled again)
Response: I tried to convince her by saying we could use A/B testing.
Que6: Asked about my workex and the tech stack used
Response: Answered this accordingly
Suggestions: They played the devil’s advocate for all my feature suggestions. Honestly, it was an exciting
interview as the interviewer kept cornering me with real-life difficulties in implementing the solutions. I
learned a lot during the interview as it was nothing like the traditional case interviews but tested almost all
my learnings, such as frameworks, PM concepts, user research, and empathy. This was the most important
round.
Next Round
1. Interesting tech trends?
2. Tell me an instance from your life where you worked hard for something, but things didn’t work
out for you.
3. How did you cope with it?
4. How would you improve team morale?
5. Tell me an instance in your life where you looked up to someone, but they disappointed you.
6. Asked a few more HR questions.
Suggestions: Atlassian, as a firm, is very proud of its values, and they believe in hiring people who
exhibit some of these qualities. This interview was filled with common HR questions with a twist. The
HR questions were not generic; they asked for specific instances of my life where I had exhibited certain
qualities. One thing that worked for me was that I was candid about certain things and did not fear to
mention that I’m unable to recollect any instance of my life where I exhibited a certain quality. I didn’t
want to make up stories as they seemed like no-nonsense people.
Experience 3
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02 + 01 submission round
Case Submission
Pick a ride-hailing app. Name one thing you think is a standout smart product choice (e.g., a detail in the
UI, an interaction pattern, a clever way of getting users on board). Name a thing that you’d improve.
Please provide your reasoning. Provide a brief overview of the type of information/data you would seek
out to validate your hypothesis. Propose a minimum viable solution and Illustrate how it would solve the
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pain point for the identified improvement area. How would you measure the success of your solution?
Suggestions: I chose Uber, which is a very popular company. The feature I chose and the improvement
was pretty common and straightforward too. But it’s more about how you logically analyse the issue from
various perspectives and if you can suggest a viable solution for it. I chose multiple solutions, one
minimum viable solution and another more technical solution
Interview
Que1: Introduction: Tell me about yourself
Response: You can drive the conversation based on what you want to highlight. I wanted to highlight my
work experience, so I delved into that. The interviewer seemed interested, so he asked a bunch of followup questions
Que2: Projects: Tell me about some of the projects you have worked on
Response: It came naturally from the previous question where I was talking about my work. I described
one of my work projects in great detail. (It’s very important to be very sure of at least one of your projects
that you’re proud of because you can plug that in any and every interview.)
Que3: Technological acumen: Tell me about some emerging technologies that you fancy and how it
works
Response: I picked blockchain as I had a lot of knowledge about it and had hands-on experience working
on it. You must know about its application in the real world and not just theoretical concepts. The
selection might backfire if you don’t know the use cases.
Que4: Case submission analysis: Summarise the case submission that you’ve done Response: I knew that
this was my time to shine. He had mentioned briefly summarising it, but I went into much depth. I had
worked hard on the submission, and I was confident that bringing out the nuances of the report would get
me brownie points. It worked well, and he seemed impressed too. More discussion followed, and then we
moved on to the next section.
Que5: Case solution: As a PM for WhatsApp, design a feature to promote engagement among the elderly
population
Response: A very simple case, a common application, and a common demographic. I had thought about
WhatsApp and cases based on it, so I dived into it comfortably. This is where the mock interviews will
help a lot. Sometimes an exact or a similar case you’ve practised can come up in the interviews. I applied
the standard CIRCLES framework, kept talking to him through the solution and kept it natural rather than
a mechanical application of the framework. He cross-questioned some of my decisions, and I clarified my
thought process to him. I’m sure it wasn’t the right answer, but what mattered was that I could structure
my thoughts at the moment
Que6: Questions: Do you have any questions for us?
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Response: I asked him about his work culture and how he found it different from his previous companies.
I think the trick is to ask something that he might like to answer, that seems like you’re interested in the
company and something that shows that you’re evaluating the company too. I acted interested in his
answer, even though I hardly was, asked a few follow-up questions, and that was it.
Next Round
Que1: Introduction
Response: Just brief. I tried to have an HR appropriate introduction, where I talked more about myself
rather than my work experience and accomplishments. Cross questions followed, kept it very light.
Que2: Attitude towards coworkers: Tell me about a time when you helped out a coworker
Response: Well, this was an unexpected question. I talked about a time when I helped a new joiner get up
to speed at my previous job. She retorted by saying that’s a regular responsibility and asked if there was
an instance when I went out of my way to help someone. I could think of an instance and force fit the
“going out of my way” to help aspect.
Que3: Manager relations
Response: I don’t think this was a planned section, but it came up somehow from the previous question. I
talked about the different management styles of the managers I worked with, careful not to criticise them
in any way. Tried to bring it back to the point that I like it when the environment is transparent and open,
which is one of the company’s essential values. Surprisingly, concepts from Individual Dynamics came
into use here.
2022
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Case Submission
Pick a software product that you're familiar with:
Name one thing that you think is a standout smart product choice (e.g. a detail in the UI, an interaction
pattern, a clever way of getting users onboard), and one thing you’d improve. For each, explain why you
picked it in 1-2 sentences.
Interview
Que: Why did you choose Myntra? How will the AI assistant help? Which metrics would you use? Who
are your target customers? Design a spice-box for blind people.
I am a frequent user of Myntra. The motivation for the solution is the recent new charge that customers
have to pay for returning a lot of clothes. Addresses the pain-point of customers who want to try and buy
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clothes. Spice-box's solution is similar to amazon go. Have a cabinet with a voice assistant over. When
you click on the panel it reads out the name of the spice. You could have smart containers to get the exact
quantity of spices too. Have pressure sensors to make sure the system notices which container is being
taken out and provide assistance to place the container in the compartmentalised spice rack .
2021
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Interview
1. Average revenue of theatre.
2. No flights taking off from an airport and the reasons for demand variation.
3. A few HRQs include 'Intro', 'Why PM', 'Achievements', and 'About the company'.
2020
Role: Product Manager
Number of interview rounds: 03 + 01 submission round
Interview:
1. You're the PM of the Uber Events team. How would you solve the problem of sudden demand for cabs
when an event ends? The event can be some conference, a movie screening etc. Think from both supply
and demand side perspectives.
2. You have to design an app for beginners to learn dancing. How would you go about it?
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BrowserStack
2024 – Laterals
Experience 1:
Role: Associate Product Manager
Case Submission: We were asked to submit a detailed presentation on improving the feature set in one of
the products offered by BrowserStack, starting from identifying focus areas to detailing metrics for
monitoring progress in achieving the set objectives.
No. of rounds: 3 - First was completely based on the case submission. Second had a generic case, third
was taken by a Director at the firm and revolved around gauging candidate fit with the role and
organisation, including one PM-specific case question.
Round 1:
Interview 1
Case study based: (Mostly smaller questions on the ppt prepared, but some that I remember were focused
the most on were the following)
- How was the prioritization matrix conceptualized? Elaborate on the decisions made.
- Details on metrics used? Why were the specific metrics chosen?
Interview 2
Case based: (Very open-ended and generic)
- How would you further monetize Youtube? (Focus mostly towards identifying user segments,
strategizing their individual monetization and providing solutions)
Interview 3
- Few HRQs (Tell me about yourself. Why PM? Why BrowserStack?)
- Pick up one of the hobbies you have listed in your resume and design a product around it which can be
monetized.
Interview duration: 180 mins.
Note: The duration mentioned is for the 3 interviews combined, all were of approx. equal duration.
Suggestions:
Largely first principle thinking, follow standard PM practices.
Experience 2:
Role: APM
Case Submission:
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They have asked same case every year. BrowserStack currently provides a feature to file a bug directly
onto JIRA after
capturing it while testing. Redesign the feature to increase its adoption for Live
Product.
Interview Focus: Product Sense & HRQs
1. Fav product, RCA and Guestimate related to it.
2. What was internship about and how did you go about improving the product?
3. Explain the case submission.
Interview Duration: 120 mins
Experience 3:
Role: PM
Questions asked:
1. Design question – No. of return orders on Myntra are rising, design product to address this.
2. HR questions
3. Metrics based questions (Use AARRR framework)
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Cisco
2024 – Laterals
Role: Engineering Product Manager
Case Submission: Design a product for wearable fitness and ideate a GTM Strategy for the same.
Interview Focus: Guestimates, Discussion on Case Submission, HRQ based questions
Questions asked:
Question 1 - Design an app where you would employ an AI based feature.
Question 2- Estimate Market size of a Japanese based wine in India.
Question 3 - Why Product Management? Why Cisco ?
Question 4 - Questions around Submission made.
Interview Duration: 135 mins
Suggestions:
Follow a structured approach, however provide genuine and creative ideas that do not seem too rehearsed.
Gauge interview's intention behind asking that question. Always keep the interviewer in loop as you make
assumptions. Check if he or she wants to focus on any particular aspect of the problem statement. Support
your answers by including any personal anecdotes (helps with showing understanding of consumer
empathy ). Know about a few company products and test yourself with mock interviews including design,
RCA based interviews about company's products.
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Disney+ Hotstar
2024
Interview: 01
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Question: Which is Your favourite product, and why is it your favourite?
I answered : Myntra is my favourite product in the standard format where I took 2 minutes to
answer. All answers were cross-questioned like "Why do you think the “Digital Clothers Trial”
feature would reduce no. of returns".
We had an assessment round before the interview where we had to submit a document on the
features we would like to add to any application. So, a lot of questions were asked from there.
Make sure to prepare it well before the interview. Many students were rejected because they did
not remember the complete solution they wrote in the assessment.
Recommendations:
Be involved with the interviewer; don't make it a question-and-answer interview where the
interviewer asks you a question and you are just answering it. Make it a conservational
interview. Go with an open mind this will help you to think from all perspectives, which is a key
to clear the PM interview.
Interview: 02
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Question: Which is your favourite product: Cross questions/ clarification questions, at each step.
Then, this led to product improvements, which further led to how these improvements would be
designed.
Question: Part of favourite product. I was asked how I would design the suggested improvements in my
favourite product.
Question: CV-based questions and HR questions.
Interview: 03
Role: Product Manager Intern
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Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Question: Tell me about yourself.
Question: What is your favourite product and why? Question: How
would you improve the product if needed?
Question: How will you create a business case for the improvement of your product?
2023
Interview : 04 Role : PM
Intern
Number of interview Rounds : 1
Interview
1. basic questions about my background and why product management.
2. Discussion on case submission that we had done as part of selection process. The case was on
how to improve monetisation and user experience for Hotstar for free subscribers.
A major chunk of my interview was around going back and forth on discussing the features I
had suggested. If I would give a suggestion, they would counter and give an opposing view
which would also be correct. It was more like a discussion with a focus on how thought out and
structured my arguments were. The key to cracking this interview would be to stay true to your
initial standings while also incorporating the constructive feedback given during the interview
and also have a well thought out and structured arguments.
3. There was also a high focus on past product management background as people with the same
were called in early for the interview.
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EA Sports
Interview: 1
Year: 2024
Role: Product Manager Interview
Rounds: 1
1. Guess the number of YouTube users going to college in india.
2. CV-related, what approach did I take to solve a particular problem my client was
facing?
3. CV-based questions, and projects on past experience, were asked.
Interview: 2
Year: 2024
Role: Product Manager Intern
Rounds: 1
1. Critique the existing monetizing feature in NFS: No limits
2. You are a PM at Airbnb, you have seen the total number of nights booked in the past 6 months
have been decreased by 30%. I want to know why.
3. Most questions are related to the submissions.
Recommendations:
Understand the revenue monetization and nitty-gritty of the gaming industry.
Interview: 3
Year: 2021
Role: Product Manager Interview
Rounds: 1
This was a gaming product management interview. There were
three different questions.
1. Guesstimate: Estimate the revenue of DoTA2 (the game I mentioned as my favourite) per year (30
min deep dive)
2. Product building: If you had all resources in the world, and build a game, what would you build
(30 min deep dive)
3. Assignment discussion - what do you think you did well and where do you think you lacked in
the assignment? (10 min discussion)
These questions are apart from the basic introduction, why EA etc.
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Eightfold AI
2024:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
Question: What is your favourite product? User journey, improvement suggestions in every step of the
user journey, prioritisation of features, metrics for suggested features and product as a whole.
Question: Improve a product I have worked on. Expected the answer from user segmentation to metrics.
Question: Questions revolved around my previous work experience regarding the development process
and how I can translate my experience to a prodman role.
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Estee Advisors
2024
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Question: Product design: I had to design a Music and Singing related product for the Indian Audience in
general. The app had to be designed keeping the global audience in mind but at an initial release, the app
would be launched in India. I used segmentation of various user segments, functionalities and pain points
for each user segment, prioritization and eventually built an app for a specific user persona. The app was
targeted both towards Content creators and Content consumers in general with the application sitting as a
middleware between both segments. The interviewer also wanted to know how to monetize this
framework and the market strategy required to launch this product for the Indian Audience. The interview
lasted for an hour.
Question: Guesstimate: I was asked to find out the total number of users that an application could
generate by broadcasting local cricket matches and tournaments ( this had to incorporate college-level
tournaments as well) across India. The guesstimate also included the various streams of revenue the
application can generate, and the monetisation statistics as well. This was an open-ended problem where
the application, its streams of revenue, monetisation, the the total number of users that can be targeted had
to be determined. The solution to this problem went on for around 40 minutes with multiple approaches to
coming up with a statistic for the total number of users to be targeted. I used a top-down approach at first,
but during the interview, I took up a bottom-up approach, which made the problem simpler.
Question: Low latency applications building for finance functionalities. Software development lifecycle.
Agile and Scrum methodology. Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Complex Scenarios. Oracle-related
questions mostly revolve around my work experience in Cloud software development. Exposure to CRM
technologies. Some of my CV points mentioned cost saving and Downtime avoidance saving millions, so
a lot of discussion was around what was the method I used to resolve critical issues in systems.
Explaining Microservices vs Monolith software development architecture. Trading Background and
exposure in Indian stock markets.
Question: Many HRQs were also asked in the second round regarding why product management, Estee
Advisors, and MBA in general after working as a Senior Software Engineer in a tech firm.
Recommendations: Important to have clarity of thought in answering open-ended questions, especially in
the Product designing phase of the interview. The interviewer really liked my clarity of thought and the
purpose behind the product functionalities I was recommending. Guesstimates are open-ended but reflect
decomposing a complex problem statement into a simplistic model using decision trees, it is always
important to think through all the use cases before creating the decision tree. Also, be good with the
financial aspect of products that you are building.
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InfoEdge
2021
Interview : 01
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 1
Interview
Metrics for Success of like button on Facebook
Interview: 02
Number of interview rounds : 1
Guesstimate – Numberofordered delivered byUberEatsinUSdaily. Feature enhancement of your
favorite app.
Questions on work-ex
Interview: 03
Number of interview rounds : 1
1. Design a bike renting application.
2. Metrics used by a search engine.
2020
Interview : 04
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds : 3 (2 technical + 1 HR)
Interview
Round 1:
1. Detailed questions on CV and background.
2. Metric question - As the PM of Quora, tell 10 metrics you will use to measure the quality of an
individual Quora user.
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3. Metric question - CM of Delhi has the objective to 'Increase green cover in Delhi'. As the
statistician for Delhi govt., what metrics you will use to measure quality of a tree planted.
4. Metric question - As an auditor of educational institutes, name 10 metrics that you will use to
evaluate a business school.
5. Metric question - As a pen manufacturer, name 10 metrics to evaluate 'ease of writing' of a new
pen.
Round 2:
1. Metric question - As the admin of Uber at a city level, name 6 metrics to put on a dashboard for
measuring 'customer satisfaction'
2. Product RCA - The sales of a particular type of Adidas shoes is going down on an e- commerce
site. As the PM of the site, how will you find the root cause?
3. Product Design - (After finding root cause in the previous question) Design a feature to improve
the e-commerce site.
Remarks
Questions on work ex as developer and PM internship at OLX also asked.
Interview : 05
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 1
Guesstimate: Number of orders delivered by Uber daily in US Steps
Followed:
1. Assumed urban cities
2. Area of a major city
3. 5 restaurants/sq-km
4. Found the Total number of restaurants
5. Assumed average deliver of 500/day, thus found total order
What other approach will you take?
1. Assumed US population as 35cr
2. 80% stays in urban
3. Average family size 3, and found number of families
4. Avg 5 order per family in a week. Thus arrived the answer
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Interview : 06
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 1
1. Tell us the metrics for Success of like button on Facebook
Talked about the type of likes on FB, such as Wow, Love, normal likes etc. Correlated Likes to
the post categories, and developed metrics for that. Divided the users into categories on the basis
of like option, and analysed the metrics for those categories Finally, told the metrics for Ads on
facebook, considering they are the major revenue opportunity for FB
Interview : 07
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 1
Design a bike renting application. Metrics used by a search engine.
Interview : 08
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 1
1. For Shiksha.com what data will you collect and use to generate information of hostels in
different colleges and compare them.
2. As the Product manager of Facebook’s like button, what data will you collect and what
inferences can you draw about its success.
Interview : 09
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 1
1.
Why are you applying for product manager role as a fresher?
2.
What features would you add to Google Maps?
3.
Tell us a product which you would like to Launch?
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2018
Interview : 10
Role : Product Manager
GD : NO
Number of interview rounds: 2
Details :
First interview was about about a few behavioral questions, understanding of the market and how it is
working, metrics and how each can used for revenue calculation, and product comparison. The second
round was CV based and defining 5-10 attributes of objects of day to day objects.
Anything to keep in mind?
Attributes of not so common goods
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Media.net
2024 - SIPs
Interview: 01
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Which is Your favourite product, I answered Myntra in the standard format where I took 2 mins to
answer. No cross-questioning
Guesstimate: Guess the revenue generated from a toll plaza between Chandigarh and
Delhi. Make sure to include all the scenarios, and speak while
solving the case this will show your thought process also do mention the assumption you take to
solve the case
RCA: Order size on Flipkart is decreasing, what is the reason behind it? Follow a
proper structure to answer, don't miss the steps. Also, make sure to mention the
assumptions you take.
No question about work-ex.
Interview: 02
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01
1. There is an increase in ride cancellations on Uber. Can you find the reason?
2. How does Google Chrome open the website when you type the URL?
3. CV-based questions, and projects on past experience, were asked.
Interview: 03
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
1. RCA and Favorite product: YouTube revenue is going down due to the
implementation of shorts which doesn't add to revenue and users cannibalizing on shorts
instead of videos which actually generates revenue.
2. Uber drivers were given the capability to check where to pick up from and drop off the
customers due to which they cancelled the ride whenever they didn't feel comfortable with the
drop location leading to bad customer experience and ratings.
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Interview: 04
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Product Design: Design Spotify from scratch.
1. Estimate the number of food orders from Swiggy in Ahmedabad, Estimate the number of open
windows in Ahmedabad at this hour.
2. You are a PM at Amazon, and your DAU has increased, Average order value has decreased, can
you please look into it?
3. You are a PM at Netflix, and you see Total playtime has decreased inspite of your MAU being
increased. Can you please look into it and suggest how we can increase the Total playtime?
Recommendations:
Keep more emphasis on how tech works and look at multiple metrics in a single problem
statement.
2024 – Laterals
Interview: 05
Role: PM
Quesitons:
1. Design a Dashboard for CEO of Grammarly.
2. Guesstimates
Interview: 06
Role: APM
Interview Focus: 1st round: Guesstimate and tech, 2nd and 3rd round: Product design, Metrics, RCA
Questions asked:
Q1. Estimate the number of EV charging station in India
Q2. Tech questions on Ad space. Cookies?
Q3. Improvement of Uber and notedown 10 metrics (both product and business)
Q4. RCA on Meesho (20perc decrease in order)
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2021
Interview : 07
Number of interview rounds : 01
They grilled on case study provided a day before interview on feature enhancement of an app like big
basket. They also asked some guesstimate also.
2020
Interview : 08
Role : Product Manager
GD : Yes
Interview format : Case based GD + Interview
Interview
1. How would you design a recommendation algorithm for Swiggy?
2. Questions regarding metrics and guesstimates.
Interview : 09
Role : Product Manager
GD : No
Number of interview rounds: Assignment + 2 personal interviews
Interview
1.
How does Google rank pages on its search result page?
2. What metrics would you use if you were tasked with developing such an algorithm?
3. How would you monetize the YouTube Skip Ad button?
Interview : 10
Role : Product Manager
GD: No
Number of interview rounds: Assignment + 2 personal interviews
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Interview
1. How does Google rank pages on its search result page?
2. What metrics would you use if you were tasked with developing such an algorithm?
3. Metric How would you monetize the YouTube Skip Ad button?
Interview : 11
Role : Associate Product Manager
GD : No
Number of interview rounds: Assignment + 2 personal interviews
Interview
1. Why PM Tech?
2. Why Media.net?
3. Suppose you work as a PM in the events team of Uber. Why is there a need for such a team in
the first place? Mention all the problems that the customers may face and how would you
resolve them?
4. Case discussion
5. Guesstimate: Estimate the number of flight tickets booked daily from MakeMyTrip.
Remarks
The interview duration was around one and a half hours. Questions included typical case discussion, HR
questions, product management questions and guesstimates.
Interview : 12
Role : Product Manager
GD : No
Number of interview rounds: 1
Round 1 : A case submission on new market and feature strategy for Big Basket. The interview revolved
around that
Interview
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1. Google Pay: No. of app visitors same but number of txn down. Find why?
2. Guesstimate no. of movie tickets booked daily on Bookmyshow.
Approach: Demand side, Population of India -> Urban -> no. of theatres -> no. of seats
-> occupancy -> % booked online -> % on Bookmyshow
3. Tech questions: What is API? What are cookies?
Interview : 13
Role : Product Manager
GD :No
Number of interview rounds: 1
Feature Enhancement: What new feature will you add in Big Basket ?
User persona: Adventure loving fitness enthusiast, who orders juice every week
He/She can add money and set limit that they want to spend Rs. 80-100 per week, without flavours
getting
Remarks : Could have asked more clarifying questions like why new feature is needed, and the current
pain-points. Jumped directly to the solution
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Microsoft
2024 – SIPs
Role Offered: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Question: E-commerce sites like Amazon often have incomplete info on product pages, like missing
value for attributes such as colour, model number, etc. Treat it as a product improvement case and walk
me through the steps of your analysis.
Recommendations:
1. Mention one field in which you think Generative AI can be beneficial and why. Explain in detail
how and in what specific product(s) it can be implemented.
2. What do you think will be the long-term effects of generative AI in our personal and professional
lives?
3. Name one invention you wish to see or work for in the distant future.
4. Questions on work projects.
2024 – Laterals
Experience 1:
Role offered: Product Manager 2
Case Submission/ Group Fly Details:
Common group call to release the problem statement. Then asked to join individual teams link to work
on submission to the problem statement. Time given 30 minutes to finish the submission and mail. We
then waited on the individual teams call we were on for a MS representative to come and ask us any
questions regarding the submission (or give a solution walkthrough)
Case Question:
In the evolving landscape of education, students face many challenges related to productivity and
effective learning. With latest advances in Artificial Intelligence such as Generative Al and Large
Language Models like ChatGPT, we are seeing a great increase in the number of products that are
evolving with the use of this technology. Can you propose or suggest a product idea to increase students'
productivity, collaboration or academic performance using this technology?
Questions asked:
Product Improvement:
1. Past workex included creation of a mentorship platform for my organization. ""Improve the product""
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2. Improve the design of Microsoft OneNote
Product Design:
1. Create a modern airport
2. What are the things you would do as the product manager for Azure cloud if you have to onboard an
open source software and distribute to customers?
HRQs:
1.
Why PM? Why Microsoft?
2.
How would you assemble an engineering team of your choice? What would you look for in them?
3.
How would you convince your team of the product vision you have (especially if they disagree
with you)?
4.
How would you prioritize multiple features?
5.
“How do you learn?” (basically asking what things I do to pick up information)
Interview Duration: 180 mins
2021
Experience: 01
Role: Program Manager
Number of interview rounds: 02 + 01 submission round
Case Round - Suggest features and improvements for Bing to improve the eCommerce search experience
Interview Round 1 : Which is your favorite product? What is its value proposition?
Interview Round 2 : Suggest a pricing strategy for cloud services (oriented towards IAAS or PAAS)
Experience: 02
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02 + 01 Group Round
Group Activity:
10 mins topic briefing + Q&A , 25 mins for solution development, 10 mins presentation to panel
Consumer Shopping Habits are rapidly evolving and digital shopping and e-commerce is driving
change. How can Microsoft make Bing search relevant for shopping and delight customers. This could
be a new feature or enhancement to existing features of Bing
Two rounds of interviews (around 35-40 mins each)
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First interview
1. Design dashboard for App developers to give feedback about customer ratings and reviews (You are
owner of Play Store/ App Store)
2. Design Rest APIs for the same
3. What are the KPIs u would consider for its back end server ?
4. What predictive analysis information can you give for developers ?
Second Interview
1. Why Microsoft ?
2. Work related questions
3. Any latest technology which u like ( I said voice assistant)
4. How does Alexa work
5. How can Alexa recognize ur voice without any training
Experience: 03
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02 + 01 Group Round
Group activity: Post-Covid, where work from home would be dominant, what should Microsoft invest
in to improve productivity?
Response:
- Start with the user, here employees. What are their potential problems in WFH? Things that
could affect their productivity
- Long meeting hours? Irregular work hours? Lack of human interaction?
- Prioritise the problems and state your reasoning. I had chosen the last one: The assumption is
that the last one has the highest long-term impact
- What's different from the office? Informal interactions beyond formal meetings, such as lunch
breaks, coffee breaks, etc.?
- List down potential solutions around MSFT products and prioritise. For example, informal
forums in Teams.
- List of features? ( Any out of the box thinking ideas or crazy ones are fine as long as it fit the
overall concept) They expect you to come with as many as possible.
- Open forum with the meet feature where anyone can join in, topic suggestions from the platform
to make it less awkward, music room? games that work with forum inside teams? so on
- Finally, metrics to track for the new feature and prioritised
-
Tips:
Mention your whole reasoning in a document or paper; it would be easier to present.
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Extra for structured writing ( no one cares about grammar or anything, focus is on showing that
you have done it in a logical manner)
Always state your assumptions explicitly
PI Round:
Ques 1. Design a dash board for Amazon sellers. (Product Design question)
- List down sellers requirements as a seller I want to know about,
a. My current delivered order status
b. How my current placements are performing?( visits, conversions etc) Which are getting more
attention
c. The trend in my sales over time across geography
d. What to for improving sales
-
What amazon offers/can offer?
1. Inventory management
2. Delivery/fulfilment
3. More exposure
4. Data insights
- Prioritise and combine both of the above to suggest what is to be included Tips:
1. Keep a paper handy to note down what the interviewer is saying. The interviewer was working with
me on the problem, so there was a lot of to and fro. Use paper to keep track of conversation
2. Show some rough sketches/wireframes. Everyone appreciates if you can put your idea into design
3. Expect much cross-questioning. Don't throw away random idea which doesn't have any reasoning to
back
4. State your assumption, and if you don't know the facts or something better to ask
Ques 2. What should Amazon focus on moving forward?
- Omnipresence for experience goods
- Social commerce
- Onboarding more SMEs
- Less discount etc
Ques 3. Which recent technology do you like the most?
Use cases of AI and VR in education ( Had done some projects in Btech, and it is always better
to guide the discussion in areas you are comfortable taking)
Ques 4. Use case of AI in education? (Follow up to the previous question) Ques 5. How
would you personalise learning for a student as a PM?
The interviewer wanted to know what sort of data would you use to personalise
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Student's background
Student's performance till now relative to other peers in the same class
Students' performance in general across schools is affected by the type of content being taught,
hours of education, etc.
HR questions
Ques 5. Why Microsoft?
- Well structured career path as a PM compared to other firms
- Get to work with Products having millions of user
Experience 4:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Group Activity:
Create a feature to enhance e-commerce searches on Bing, keeping the changing consumer habits in
mind.
Interview:
Ques 1.
As the PM of Uber surge team, create a formula for calculating surge price
Ans 1:
Uber Design Question: Listed down the stakeholders:
1) Uber
2) Driver Partners
3) Customers
Discussed the pain points of each of them and how surge pricing addresses them.
Decided that the goal is to maximize profits for Uber and driver partners and to outbid other customers
in the case of a supply shortage. Constraints discussed eg. government regulations, competition (asked
to ignore competition and regulations)
Got the case down to the following scenario:X customers waiting, Y cabs in the vicinity (found using geofencing)
Solution - Capacity utilisation should be 100%, i.e. all X cabs should be used. Use past history to
calculate the elasticity of individual customers. Sort by elasticity and take the Yth highest customer's
multiplier as the surge multiplier.
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Ques 2. Technology that, according to you, has had a major impact in the last decade Ques 3. What is
NLP (based on the answer to the previous question)
Experience 5:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Case in Group Round to come up with new ideas among Microsoft Suite to increase employee
productivity
Interview
Why PM? Why Microsoft? Questions focussed mostly on Work-ex focussed on the advertising
industry. Favourite Product. Some questions on ML algorithms related to NLP (the interview
discussion had gone in that direction)
Experience 6:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02 + 01 Group round
Case in Group Round to come up with new ideas among Microsoft Suite to increase employee
productivity
PI Round 1:
one senior PM; ~40 mins:
• Salutations
• Tell me about yourself
• What PM work did you do in previous work ex?
• Long type question
Assume you are the PM for the BookMyShow app. What are the backend activities running during a
normal user workflow?
- Elaborate on the process till the seats are selected in the app.
- Should the data pull for seat availability be a direct database pull or an API pull?
- How would you use a Data Scientist team, given at your disposal?
• Short type question
- How would you test a wireless mouse?
Answer:
Tests relevant for wired mouse: number of clicks possible on the mouse, durability, weight, click
feel/pressure, etc.
Tests relevant for wireless mouse: latency, surfaces that it can be used on, compatibility with
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Bluetooth (different versions), troubleshooting options.
PI Round 2:
(one Principal PM; ~20 mins):
• Salutations
• Tell me about yourself
• Talked more about the hobbies
• Short Case:
o Assume that you are the PM for the Auto scale feature in Microsoft Azure (the server would scale up
wrt. to the needs of the application without user intervention). How would you position this to the
DevOps engineers?
Answer:
Explained that the value proposition, generally, is that you save money.
- Specific to DevOps:
a. The pain points of the manual solution would be:
i. App crashes / server down
ii. Unpredictable scenarios like bursts
iii. Lack of automation
iv. Difficult to predict business requirements
b. The benefits would be a sense of control
c. Position the ad for auto scale when the developer comes to buy a new server
d. Give the value proposition of automation and saving of time
e. Banner ad on the website should work
Experience 7:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 + 01 submission round
Round 1:
How can Microsoft as a provider of productivity software help out in making work from home more
efficient. Any new product line or enhancement to existing products for Microsoft to win in this new
age of remote working.
Round 2:
1. Improve IRCTC booking experience.
2. Design Swiggy dashboard for restaurants
3. HRQs - Why Product Management. Why Microsoft
2020
Experience 1:
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Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 Group Round + 3 PI
Group fly Round (Individual Recommendations for a particular design question.):
1. Design an educational solution for toddlers (4-8 yr olds) . The candidates were not bounded by
any constraints as to what problems this solution would address, or what kind of tech stack can
be used for the same.
Interview rounds 1. Design a QR code reading algorithm (Intern-based).
2. Draw a process diagram for a simple messaging service. (some quantitative questions on the
range etc.)
3. What are the KPIs for various stakeholders of a cab aggregator?
4. How can you improve the signup process of LinkedIn?
5. HRQs about the motivation behind choosing the job, etc.
1. What is IoT?
2. You are the PM of Paytm. How will you integrate it in the education sector? What are the
metrics you will use to measure its success?
3. What is your fav app? How would you critique it?
4. How does custom recommendation work? How can you implement it without machine
learning?
5. Do you know about the LinkedIn feature of updating details? How would you make people
update details? (No marketing-based answers. Something out of the box was expected from the
Candidate.)
6. What is gamification? How can you gamify Skype for business?
7. How strong are your opinions? Will you stick to your opinion or will take your manager's
opinion? How will you approach such a situation
Experience 2:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 Group Round + 3 PI
Interview
1. Do you have a background in Cloud Computing?
2. What do you know about Azure (specific product)?
3. What is AWS Snowball?
4. What is AWS Snowball Edge?
5. Case: You need to increase the sign-up numbers of Twitter.
HR Interview
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1.
2.
3.
4.
Design a cloud product for startups.
What would be the key features of the above stated product?
How would you handle a disagreement among members in a team?
What would you do if you don't agree with someone regarding a task?
Experience 3:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 Group Round + 3 PI
Interview
1. Design MVP for a messenger app. Design database schema for this app on server
2. Algorithm and coding questions on graphs and trees
3. Design PAAS solution to sell auto scaling solutions
Experience 4:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 Group Round + 3 PI
Interview
1.
2.
3.
4.
Why Product Management?
Some questions around work experience
Questions on data mining and machine learning
Design an app similar to Gmail and the app should have automatic word completion features. A
lot of questions were asked around the app proposed.
2018
Experience 1:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 Group Round + 2 PI
Group Round:
It was a cross between a GD and a case interview.
There were 10 of us in a room. Let's say A1 to A5 and B1 to B5. There were two panelists, say A and
B. So the case question was announced - which was basically a product requirement for businesses to
move their applications/data to the cloud. We were allowed to shoot out any questions we had and get
them clarified publicly for the first 2-3 minutes. Once that was done, then we were asked to start
working on our solutions on the empty A4 sheets given to us.
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In some time, A started calling us one by one, individually from A1 to A5 to one corner of the room
and asked us to explain our solution to him. The panelist would hear your solution out, then identify
areas for you, in your solution that you need to expand on, or focus on in the next few minutes.
Meanwhile B was doing the same with B1 to B5 in the opposite corner of the room.
Once they were done with this, both A and B stepped out of the room, exchanged their notes about the
five candidates they each spoke with. Then both stepped back in and in some time, repeated the same
process followed, but this time A sought updates from B1 to B5 individually in his corner of the room,
and B sought updates from A1 to A5 in the opposite corner.
Interview rounds 1. Asked about Data Structures / DBMS since it was related to my past work ex
2. HRQs - resume based, minimal questions on HRQ
3. Case based questions on past work ex and based on the GD round problem statement and
solution given
Experience 2:
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 01 Group Round + 2 PI
Group Round:
It was a cross between a GD and a case interview.
There were 10 of us in a room. Let's say A1 to A5 and B1 to B5. There were two panelists, say A and
B. So the case question was announced - which was basically a product requirement for businesses to
move their applications/data to the cloud. We were allowed to shoot out any questions we had and get
them clarified publicly for the first 2-3 minutes. Once that was done, then we were asked to start
working on our solutions on the empty A4 sheets given to us.
In some time, A started calling us one by one, individually from A1 to A5 to one corner of the room
and asked us to explain our solution to him. The panelist would hear your solution out, then identify
areas for you, in your solution that you need to expand on, or focus on in the next few minutes.
Meanwhile B was doing the same with B1 to B5 in the opposite corner of the room.
Once they were done with this, both A and B stepped out of the room, exchanged their notes about the
five candidates they each spoke with. Then both stepped back in and in some time, repeated the same
process followed, but this time A sought updates from B1 to B5 individually in his corner of the room,
and B sought updates from A1 to A5 in the opposite corner.
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1. Asked about Data Structures / DBMS since it was related to my past work ex
2. HRQs - resume based, minimal questions on HRQ
3. Case based questions on past work ex and based on the GD round problem statement and
solution given
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Optum
2023
Interview 1
No of Rounds : 1
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. I briefly explained my schooling and college PORs. As I have experience working in the same
US pharmaceuticals. My response was more focused on my work experience. I finished with my
hobbies.
3. Do you know our parent company and our source of income?
4. I told I don't know the exact name of your parent company, but your primary source of income
is from selling insurance. [The interviewer just nodded]
5. Can you tell me in detail about your regular work in your previous organization?
6. My team is responsible for maintaining doctor's and hospital databases. I will connect almost
every day with my US stakeholder to know any immediate requirement.I connect with my
down-ward stream team to perform ad-hoc requests. We help the sales force team with their call
planning activity. We also work with a third-party team to improve the quality of data stored in
the warehouses.
7. Since you told me you worked in call planning activity, can you tell me any problems you faced
and how you tried to rectify them?
8. In Golden record, which we maintain hospitals, there is a chance that the same hospital has
multiple entries having each entrance as their primary address. We tried to rectify it with the
help of calculating the proximity distance between the hospitals.
9. What is your most regularly used app, and why? Suggest one improvement in it.
10. I like the UI and build of Spotify. It is pretty innovative. I like to hear songs, So I use Spotify
regularly. I am a big fan of their personalized playlists.Area of Improvement: For most regional
language songs, the lyrics are written in English, which is also quite inaccurate. They have to
improve on it.
11. Any questions for us?
12. I asked about their tie-ups with IIIT Hyderabad. What are its future prospects of it?
Interview 2
No of Rounds 2
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Round 1
1. Started with a few basic questions for around 10 minutes.
2. Some questions on work experience for 10 minutes
3. Asked to improve my favorite product.
Candidate chose Amazon Music and gave my reasoning as it comes under bulk package of Prime
subscription.
4. Candidate asked some preliminary questions regarding objective of the improvement.
Chose target segments which include both music and podcasts.
5. Problems found based on the user flow for the music lovers.
Prioritized the problems and proposed three solutions.Analyzed with metrics.
6. Discussion on the reason for prioritization. Interview went chill No stressing
Round 2
1. A little bit grilling on academics subjects
2. Asked about candidate company products and picked one of it.
3. Asked about guestimate the number of users using the product
Candidate started with top down approach. Started with Geographical division. Then went with
Segment of companies’ interviewer looking for. Had a discussion in middle regarding the reason of
choosing geographical division. Answered from technical perspective. At this moment it went for some
five minutes more. Interviewer was satisfied so stopped in middle and asked about pricing strategy for
the product. Interview had to stop in middle due to passing over mentioned time constraints.
Interview 3
No of Rounds : 1
1. CV based questions on work experience
2. Prodman Case: Root Cause Analysis – Apple Watch has feature to track vitals. The usage of
this feature has dropped – find the reason
Used CIRCLES framework for the RCA
3. HR Question: Where do you see yourself 5 years down the line? Also, a hypothetical question
on Healthcare in India was asked.
Interview 4
No of Rounds : 1
1. CV Based: Elaborate work ex and discussion on CV points.
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2. Product Design Case: Interviewer gave a vague problem statement to design a rare diseases
application which addresses all stakeholders. It can be medicine delivery (for rare medicines
specifically catering to rare diseases), or other things.
applied the circles framework, putting emphasis on the needs of the customer and the customer
journey. In addition, I extracted features from good existing apps to utilize in the design. I think
this is a very good trick (not to directly copy but to actually connect where a pre-existing feature
might be the perfect fit in your context. There is an added bonus of proof of evidence with such
features)
3. HRQs like Why Prodman? Why Optum?
Interview 5
No of Round : 1 Panel of 3 members
1. HR Questions: Why Optum? Disagreements with previous manager. Leadership roles taken
previously and challenges faced
Used STAR method to answer the HR questions. Read the Optum values and recent
developments to prepare for Why Optum.
2. CV Based: Asked questions on CV points and wanted me to elaborate my project.
Explained them keeping in mind the business impact
3. What would be the step by step process you would take to build a new innovative product?
Used CIRCLES framework as a skeleton for my answer for the step by step process question.
However, added my own steps including market research before find pain points, creating
design and prototypes for customer feedback after brainstorming on features, added probably
metrics, development, testing and launch as subsequent steps. Modified and corrected my
answers on the go.
4. What would be opportunity costs in building a new product?
Time, resources including employees, capital and infrastructure, losing out on revenue
maximisation from existing projects, etc.
Interview 6
No of Round :1
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1. Brief Introduction, asked about previous work ex and projects I worked on.
Gave prepared answers for such questions
2. Asked about regular application that I use and asked to add a feature to develop the application?
After listening to different apps that I have used they asked me to take Uber and asked me to
add a feature to it. Already had a similar kind of discussion with my friends which I have used
to frame my answer.
3. Develop an application for online medicine delivery service?
Used the CIRCLES framework as a skeleton for the structure of my answer. Also solving
different cases beforehand helped me to get better formulate my answer to the situation.
4. Puzzle- A common balance is given with 8 identical looking bags in which one is less weight
than the others. Use minimum tries to find the correct bag?
It is an easy puzzle which can be solved with prior practice of puzzles.
Interview 7
No of Rounds : 1
1.
Tell me abt yourself. What skills should a PM have?
2.
Case: Estimate the number of flights landing in bombay airport in a day.
3.
Case2: (Shared beforehand)- A case describing various features of a food-products ordering app
(similar to big basket) is given.
4. What 3 features are contribute more to the revenue?
5.
What are the features that you like?
6.
What is your favorite App? -Spotify
7.
What 3 features would you add to make it more useful?
8.
How would you decide what features to add?
9.
How would you measure the success of the implemented features?
Interview 8
No of Rounds : 1
A case submission on new market and feature strategy for Big Basket. The interview revolved around
that.
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Feature Enhancement: What new feature will you add in Big Basket ?
User persona: Adventure loving fitness enthusiast, who orders juice every week
He/She can add money and set limit that they want to spend Rs. 80-100 per week, without flavours
getting.
Remarks
Could have asked more clarifying questions like why new feature is needed, and the current painpoints. Jumped directly to the solution
2021
Interview 9
Role: Product Manager Intern
No of Rounds: 3 rounds in the same call- Junior PMs, then Senior PMs (they take the decision) then
HR(mere formality). Call went on for about 1.5 hours.
Round 1: Junior PMs (Panel of 2).
Tell me about your work ex (was in tech consulting). Asked me about the work I had previously
done for a client in the healthcare segment. Design a product to improve communication within an
organization, during COVID (along the lines of Teams, Slack, etc.).
If you are given a choice between launching two features- the first being an improvement of an existing
feature and the other, a completely new one, how would you decide which feature you would launch,
given that you have a short timeframe of 2 weeks and can launch only one feature?
Round 2: Senior PMs (Panel of 4) : They asked more general, big picture questions and some HRQs
like "What drives you?". One hypothetical was asked where I was told that if you had the power of all
the data in the world, what problem in healthcare would you solve?
I went with misdiagnoses (gave reasons from personal experience), and there was a fair amount of
cross-questioning about who the system would be for, how exactly it would look in real life, but it
never really went into grilling territory.
Be wary of misdirection as they really test you on values as another SPM asked if I preferred to work
alone or in a team, citing that she preferred to do things on her own because it freed her to work the way
she wanted. I replied team player with certain reasons, and later, she revealed that she was just testing
me and that the culture at Optum was very team-centric. For some reason, the SPMs voted in front of
me whether to accept me or not.
Round 3: HR (Panel of 1)
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This was just a formality as the SPMs had already offered the role by now. HR grilled me a little on my
motivation, just to ensure I was serious about joining Optum. Appear sincere about accepting, and
you should be good. Lasted about 5 minutes.
Interview 10
No of Rounds : 1
Round 1 (two interviewers; ~15-20minutes):
1. Salutations
2. Tell us about yourself
3. What work did you do in Innovaccer?
4. So, you must know about the problems with the US Healthcare technology sector. Can you
describe a few of the challenges faced by the doctors?
5. Any questions for us?
Interview 11
Role : Product Manager
Rounds : 1
(two interviewers; ~ 15-20 minutes):
1. Salutations
2. Tell us about yourself
3. What work did you do in Innovaccer?
4. So, you must know about the problems with the US Healthcare technology sector. Can you
describe a few of the challenges faced by the doctors?
5. Any questions for us?
Interview 12
Role : Product Manager No of
Rounds : 3
Round 1
•
Junior PMs (Panel of 2)
1. Tell me about your work ex (was in tech consulting).
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2. Asked me about the work I had previously done for a client in the healthcare segment.
3. Design a product to improve communication within an organization, during COVID (along the
lines of Teams, Slack, etc.)
My idea was something of a combination of Slack and Zoom.
4. If you are given a choice between launching two features- the first being an improvement of an
existing feature and the other, a completely new one, how would you decide which feature you
would launch, given that you have a short timeframe of 2 weeks and can launch only one
feature?
Listed down certain metrics and discussed over the same. Highlighted which metric is more
important for me right now.
Focused more on the approach part than the answer.
Round 2
Senior PMs (Panel of 4).
1. They asked more general, big picture questions and some HRQs like "What drives you?"
2. One hypothetical was asked where I was told that if you had the power of all the data in the
world, what problem in healthcare would you solve?
I went with misdiagnoses (gave reasons from personal experience), and there was a fair amount
of cross-questioning about who the system would be for, how exactly it would look in real life,
but it never really went into grilling territory. Be wary of misdirection as they really test you on
values as another SPM asked if I preferred to work alone or in a team, citing that she preferred
to do things on her own because it freed her to work the way she wanted. I replied team player
with certain reasons, and later, she revealed that she was just testing me and that the culture at
Optum was very team-centric. For some reason, the SPMs voted in front of me whether to
accept me or not.
Round 3
HR (Panel of 1)
This was just a formality as the SPMs had already offered the role by now. HR grilled me a little on my
motivation, just to ensure I was serious about joining Optum. Appear sincere about accepting, and you
should be good. Lasted about 5 minutes.
Interview 13
Role : Product Manager
No of Rounds : 1
They asked me to design a diabetic app. Discussion went on for 45 mins from market research to user
research to everything.
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Oracle
2022
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Interview
Que1: Intro.
Response: Gave normal intro describing myself and showing some inclination to PM by saying that I
myself like to do app critiques and always try to compare similar apps and find areas of improvement.
Que2: Asked few questions about a work ex project
Response: Told
Que3: Asked about a app you would like to critique
Response: Told about Uber. Good features (Value-proposition, price visibility, less clutter, User
specific rating which can determine who is a good user and not available in Ola), Improvements
(Feature to search restaurants, parks like in Google Maps, Alternate cab finder at the same time, User
can walk some distance to avoid large waiting times)
Que4: Design Question: Design a bookshelf
Response: Structured the problem. Customer (Book savvy person, casual reader), Pain- points (Should
be at an appropriate height to the suer), Features (Label as to which genre it belongs to, Bookmark
feature, length of the shelf of a particular category of genre should be at least equal to the highest sized
book in that genre and some buffer should be kept as well), Prioritization (Prioritized the three features
based on Cost of Implementation, User Experience, Utility), Metrics to track (Total Books read,
Time/book, New orders placed on books, % of book shelf occupied)
Que4: Feedback
Response: Gave feedback (I didn’t ask). Have to ask more clarifying questions whether it is a physical
bookshelf or online one, should have done wireframing as to the size of the room, dimensions of the
bookshelf, metrics difficult to measure. Impressed with the overall structure though, asked which book I
used for prep.
Next Round (Head of PM with 13 years work ex in Oracle)
Que1: Asked whether I have used any software at work ex
Response: Worked in an analytics role. Told that I mainly used SAS for getting all the data and Excel
for doing all the analysis
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Que2: Asked questions about a work ex project. How did I resolve the problem of duplicate
applications?
Response: Told about how we found out reasons for the same. Got in touch with the acquisitions team
to get some info about the variables. Found around 2-3 reasons. Talked with the tech team and
communicated the issues to them. Achieved a 52% decrease in duplicate applications in 3 months.
Que3: Asked if I had any questions
Response: Asked about what work can I expect at Oracle and whether any pre-requisites are there
Suggestions: Structuring a question is more important than the solution in PM so ensure that you
follow a particular structure. The creativity aspect is well-tested in PM interviews so make sure that
your solutions are innovative.
2021
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager Intern Number of
interview rounds: 01
Interview
1. You have worked at Tata Steel for 5 years which is dream of IIMians even, so why
MBA after 5 years?
2. What roles were you in at your workplace?
3. As a procurement manager, what application system did you used?
4. What is the advantage and challenges of “EasyBuy” that you faced?
5. Do you have any suggestions to improve those challenges that you have faced?
6. What financial software or any kind of software applications did you use?
7. What are the main drawbacks of SAP?
8. Why Oracle finance?
9. What does Oracle finance offer to its clients?
10. What role would you prefer given the choices: customer interface or development side?
11. What will be your approach to when you are dealing with customers to know their pain
points?
12. How will you strategize to onboard new clients to our services?
13. If not Prodman, what else?
14. You told you are interested in finance, but why so?
15. Do you have any suggestions to Oracle finance?
Experience 2
Role: Product Manager Intern
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Number of interview rounds: 02
Interview
1. Tell us about yourself.
2. Tell something that’s not in your CV.
3. CV based questions on past Internship (The interviewee had worked in developing web portal for
attendance & leave system for a NGO)
4. What all changes you will make if you transfer the portal to Cloud?
5. Mention few features that you will consider adding to the portal.
Next Round
2. What you know about Product Life cycle Management?
3. Pros and Cons of Waterfall method, agile method.
4. What changes you will make to waterfall method for improvement?
5. Scenario based question: Which method you will use for the project mentioned in the scenario
and why?
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PharmEasy
2022
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 02
Interview
Que1: Introduction
Response: Gave a 1.5min elevator pitch highlighting my previous work-ex, positives that align with
PM role
Que2: Favourite app/web application
Response: Gave a list of my daily used apps and told some favourites and why so (Followed fav app
framework given by PM club)
Que3: Design question: Design a WhatsApp like application for elderly people Response: I used
CIRCLES framework. concentrated/spent more time on the customer segmentation and need
identification.
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PhonePe
Interview: 1 Year: NA
Role: Product Manager Interview
Rounds: 1
1. What is your favourite app? How would you critique it?
2. Identify the flaws in PhonePe app and recommend a new design.
Interview: 2 Year: NA
Role: Product Manager Interview
Rounds: 1
1. Why product management?
2. You could have become a product manager without an MBA as well, then why MBA?
3. Why PhonePe?
4. In what team you worked in Amazon. Explain in detail.
5. What is your favourite app and why?
6. Ans: Explained Google Maps is favourite and provided why is it favourite.
7. Any feature you would want to improve in your favourite app?
8. What feature would you like to improve/add in phonePe?
9. Have you worked in any startup or thought about working in one?
10. What kind of work do you like more, initiating some new project or growing and scaling
up some existing feature/project?
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Sprinklr
2022
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager
Number of interview rounds: 01
Interview
Que1: B2B vs B2C business: differences and similarities.
Response: Provided metrics on which we can differentiate like type of customers, lot size and took
examples of Udaan and Amazon.
Que2: Guesstimate: Number of Netflix users in IIMA campus
Response: Only approach was asked and took 2 different segments i.e. faculty and students. asked
clarification questions on number of accounts/ number of users and took assumptions.
Que3: End to end encryption: in personal vs business chats (WhatsApp)
Response: Read an article on WhatsApp encryption and was assisted by interviewer through technical
terms.
Que4: Voice enabled fridge and use of Braille: explained all the features in details
Response: Voice enabled fridge and use of Braille: explained all the features in details
Que5: Uber electric- GTM
Response: Uber electric can be catered to particular segment like targeting business class and hence
can be used between airports, hotels and corporate offices. Also covered 4P of marketing.
2021
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Why PM
2. Why Sprinklr
3. App critique & improvement
Next Round (Behavioural questions)
1. how will you deal with conflict.
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2. How will you convince a senior person about your ideas.
3. You have two important clients, both of them are asking for specific requests to your SAAS
products, how will you handle this scenario?
4. Case: You've sold 100 licenses for a software to optimise a BPO to Air BnB. You observe that
only 30 licenses are being used actively. Try to root cause the problem.
Next Round (HR)
1. 3 strengths & 3 weaknesses.
2. Any instance of a conflict due to an error you caused and how you resolved it.
3. What do you like about Sprinklr and how will you be able to contribute to Sprinklr?
Experience 2
Role: Product Manager
Number of interview rounds: 02
Interview
1. Design a solution for an elderly person to authenticate to a platform. They might have
problem remembering the passwords. They do not have a smart phone so no biometrics like
fingerprint, face scan or iris scan.
2. Design an ATM to be easy to use and safe for an elderly person or any other person. How can
ATM ensure safety of the user if the user is been coerce to withdraw money by a robber?
3. Estimate the number of charging station required if Ola introduces electric vehicle in Delhi.
Experience 3
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Why PM
2. Why Sprinklr
3. App critique & improvement
Next Round
1. How will you deal with conflict.
2. How will you convince a senior person about your ideas.
3. You have two important clients, both of them are asking for specific requests to your SAAS
products, how will you handle this scenario?
4. Case: You've sold 100 licenses for a software to optimise a BPO to Air BnB. You observe
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that only 30 licenses are being used actively. Try to find the root cause of the problem.
Next Round (HR Round)
1. 3 strengths & 3 weaknesses.
2. Any instance of a conflict due to an error you caused and how you resolved it.
3. What do you like about Sprinklr and how will you be able to contribute to Sprinklr?
Experience 4
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Tell me about your favourite app that you use on daily basis and why is this your favourite
app?
3. What are the pain points of the app and tell me some suggestions to improve the app?
(Metric – User engagement)
4. Comment on the technical feasibility of the solutions that you provided. Rank them
accordingly.
5. Why Sprinklr?
6. Do you have any questions for us?
Next Round
1. Give a brief introduction of yourself.
2. What do you know about Sprinklr? (Explained the data sharing model and business model)
3. Situation based question: How would you prioritize the projects in case of resource crunch. (It
is important to understand that Sprinklr isa B2B company where client relationship plays an
important role).
4. Chart out a product roadmap for a product with example (Explained with an example of client
dashboard).
5. Do you have any questions for me?
Next Round
1. Name any one core value of Sprinklr with which you relate to.
2. What is your main strength?
3. What are your expectations from Sprinklr?
4. Describe a stressful situation at work and how did you handle it?
5. Why Sprinklr?
6. Why are you better than other potential candidates?
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Experience 5
Role: Product Manager Intern Number of
interview rounds: 01 Interview
1. Design a solution for an elderly person to authenticate to a platform. They might have
problem remembering the passwords. They do not have a smart phone so no biometrics like
fingerprint, face scan or iris scan.
2. Design an ATM to be easy to use and safe for an elderly person or any other person. How can
ATM ensure safety of the user if the user is been coerce to withdraw money by a robber?
3. Estimate the number of charging station required if Ola introduces electric vehicle in Delhi.
2020
Experience 1
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Product design case - design a website for investing in the stock market.
Next Round
1. Guesstimates - How many Ubers are running in Ahmedabad in a day?
2. If you have to install LPG petrol pumps throughout Gujarat, how many will you install on a
single day?
Next Round
1. HRQs and questions based on CV were asked in this round
Experience 2
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Introduce yourself.
2. Why Sprinklr?
3. Why Product Management?
4. Explain about your work on your PM internship at OLX
5. Guesstimate - Number of flights on the air above Ahmedabad at any given time
6. Product Design - Redesign the bidding system of IIMA
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Experience 3
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Why are you interested in the PM role? What do you understand about it?
2. Re-design IIMA's bidding portal.
3. A designer has come up to you with an idea. How will you evaluate it?
4. Should companies use dark themes in applications?
5. Data visualization questions based on a graphs showed on the laptop.
Next Round
1. You are the PM. Product launch is scheduled for tomorrow but just one day before you are
told there is a bug. Would you or would you not launch the product?
2. You are a PM. Sales team has come to you and informed you about the
dissatisfaction with the software among customers. What will you do?
Next Round
1. Why PM?
2. Have you ever been in a stressful situation? How did you handle it? Can you quote an
experience?
3. Are you a team player? Share experiences.
Experience 4
Role: Product Manager Intern
Number of interview rounds: 03
Interview
1. Questions on data visualization, guesstimates & work experience.
2. Questions on difference of A/B testing between B2B and B2C products
3. General HRQs
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