20 Typical Questions for Interviewing a Product Manager
Do you remember your first professional interview as a product manager? It was probably exciting and nervous. Actually, it’s not so difficult to become an interview moderator. All you need is some confidence, experience, and professional knowledge base.
Young product managers should be prepared and know how to answer the most difficult questions during the interview. How do these questions look like?
Here’re the most typical questions from the large list posted om Hygger blog.
- What is your definition of product management? How would you explain it to children?
- Why is product management so popular today (as a profession)
- What is your favorite product ever? Why?
- Why did you want to be a product manager?
- What are your tips for improving our product?
- What PM tool or services do you need to build a product roadmap?
- How would you describe your desired career path in product management?
- Which metrics do you use to track product efficiency?
- How do you define features priority?
- Do you use any prioritization technique?
- How can you explain the basic difference between Scrum and Kanban?
- What do you think about daily Agile meetings and stand-ups? Are they effective?
- What is the main difference between product managers and project managers?
- Have you ever worked with remote developers?
- What is your favorite book about product management?
- How will you define if a product launch is successful?
- What is your greatest professional achievement?
- Could you describe one of your professional failures? If you have it.
- What are you most passionate about?
- Why do you want to work for this company as a product manager?
What do you think about the mentioned questions? Can you answer all of them?
Anyway, remember that this is a live person on the other side of the table. So do not panic and try to express yourself as you can do it.