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Product manager
PM interviews test judgment under ambiguity: what you built and why, what you refused to build, and how you moved a team you didn't manage.
- 01Conviction & trade-offsTell me about a product decision you made that was unpopular with engineering, design, or leadership.
- 02Failure & measurementDescribe a feature you shipped that failed. How did you know, and what did you do next?
- 03Prioritization & backboneTell me about a time you said no to a large customer or a powerful stakeholder.
- 04User insight & discoveryDescribe how you discovered a user problem that nobody had asked you to solve. What happened to it?
- 05Execution under pressureTell me about a launch that was at risk a month out. What did you cut, keep, and communicate?
- 06Influence without authorityDescribe a time you moved an engineering team to do something they initially resisted, without authority over them.
- 07Judgment with conflicting signalsTell me about a time data and user feedback pointed in opposite directions. What did you do?
- 08Strategic prioritizationDescribe the hardest prioritization call you've made across two things that both genuinely mattered.
- 09Inheriting & re-planningTell me about a time you inherited a product or roadmap you disagreed with. What did you change and what did you keep?
- 10Experimentation & frugalityDescribe a time you used a small experiment to avoid building the wrong big thing.