The Product Manager Interview: 167 Actual Questions and Answers

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Brand New 4th Edition

From the creator of the CIRCLES, AARM & ESTEEM Methods™, The Product Manager Interview, 4th Ed. gives readers 167 practice questions to improve product management (PM) skills and master the interview. Authored by the world’s expert in PM interviews, Lewis C. Lin, the book is ideal for PM roles including:

• Google
• Facebook
• Amazon
• Uber
• Dropbox
• Microsoft

Fully Solved Solutions

The book contains fully solved solutions so readers can learn, improve and do their best at the PM interview. Here are questions and sample answers you’ll find in the book:

Product Design

• How would you design an ATM for elderly people?
• Instagram currently supports 3 to 15 second videos. We’re considering supporting videos of unlimited length. How would you modify the UX to accommodate this?

Pricing

• How would you go about pricing UberX or any other new Uber product?
• Let’s say Google created a teleporting device: which market segments would you go after? How would you price it?

Metrics

• What Uber KPIs would you use to evaluate market performance?
• Facebook users have declined 20 percent week over week. Diagnose the problem. How would you fix the issue?

Estimation

• Estimate Facebook’s ad revenue.
• How much storage space do you need for Google Maps?

Detailed Preparation Plans

The book contains detailed 30-day study plans for Google and Facebook as well as a 36-day study plan for Amazon. It also contains instructions on how to modify for other popular companies too.

Ideal Companion to Decode and Conquer

Many of you have read the PM interview frameworks revealed in Decode and Conquer, including the CIRCLES™, AARM™ and DIGS™ methods. 

The Product Manager Interview is the perfect complement to Decode and Conquer. With 167 practice questions, you’ll see what the best PM interview responses look and feel like.

What’s New

In-line with its gold-standard status, the fourth edition incorporates the latest thinking on how to succeed in PM interviews. The new fourth edition incorporates hundreds of changes, updated information, and brand-new questions.

Preferred by the World’s Top Universities

Lewis’s half- and full-day interview workshops are highly sought after. Here’s what students and staff say about the speaker:

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

I can say your class is the best that I have ever attended. I will use knowledge I learned today for future interviews.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

I’d like to let you know that your workshop today is super awesome! It’s the best workshop I have been to since I came to Columbia Business School.

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

Thank you so much for taking time out and teaching us about these much-needed principles and frameworks. I plan to print out a few slides and paste them on my walls!