Product Alliance – Flagship Google PM Interview Course

Product Alliance – Flagship Google PM Interview Course

Product Questions

How to pick products at a Google Design interview

The #1 mistake to avoid in the Google Design interview

The 50+ exact Product questions you’re likely to be asked (September 2024)

Product Design

How to flawlessly answer Product Design questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Should TikTok build a video scrubber to allow users to skip to certain time stamps?

Sample 10/10 answer: Imagine you’re the PM in charge of Google Podcasts. What would you build?

Sample 10/10 answer: Design Twitter for the blind.

Sample 10/10 answer: Design the web user experience for Lyft.

Sample 10/10 answer: Design a better way to find a roommate in a new city.

Product Improvement

How to flawlessly answer Product Improvement questions

Sample 10/10 answer: You work at Netflix and find that many videos are freezing in the middle to buffer. How would you improve this experience?

Sample 10/10 answer: What social features would you add to Spotify?

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about your favorite non-tech product.

Sample 10/10 answer: Improve high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes.

Sample 10/10 answer: Give me an example of a badly-designed product.

Sample 10/10 answer 2: Pick your favorite product. How would you improve it?

Sample 10/10 answer 1: Pick your favorite product. How would you improve it?

Product Growth

How to flawlessly answer Product Growth questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Twitter wants to find more ways to monetize without adding more ads. What do you suggest?

Sample 10/10 answer: OfferUp, a peer-to-peer local marketplace startup, wants to attract more sellers. What should it do?

Sample 10/10 answer: How would you use $30 million to design a referral program for Lyft to drive 1 million new signups?

Sample 10/10 answer: Create a zero-budget growth strategy for a free app that helps users find great flight deals.

Product Pricing

How to flawlessly answer Product Pricing questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Target is a longtime Azure customer and wants a 10% discount for next year. As a PM at Azure, would you grant it?

Sample 10/10 answer: Should Spotify increase its monthly price by $2?

Sample 10/10 answer: Should Instagram let users pay for an ad-free experience? If so, how much would you charge for it?

Craft & Execution Questions

Cracking Google’s new Craft & Execution interview (8 pages)

The 50+ exact Craft & Execution questions you’re likely to be asked (September 2024)

Prioritization and Tradeoffs

How to flawlessly answer Prioritization & Tradeoffs questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Imagine if Microsoft Teams saw a 50% drop in new downloads. How would you figure out what happened?

Sample 10/10 answer: A Snapchat app redesign increases time spent but reduces Snaps sent & stories shared. Should you ship it?

Product Launch

How to flawlessly answer Product Launch questions

Sample 10/10 answer: How would you decide which country to next launch Amazon Prime 1- or 2-day shipping in?

Crisis Response

How to flawlessly answer Crisis Response questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Suppose you’re Marriott’s CEO and found that a hack just exposed the data of 5 million guests. What would you do?

Sample 10/10 answer: You promised Best Buy that you’d launch the latest version of Google’s Pixel Buds in September, but the engineering team says it won’t be ready until December. What do you do?

Teamwork and Communication

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time your team failed.

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time when you earned the trust of a person or group.

Sample 10/10 answer: Imagine if the designer on your team wasn’t meeting expectations. How would you proceed?

Sample 10/10 answer: Do you work well independently?

Technical Explainers

How to flawlessly answer Technical Explainer questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a tech trend you find interesting or an emerging technology you’re following.

Sample 10/10 answer: How do generative adversarial networks (GANs) work? How can you use them to make deepfakes?

Sample 10/10 answer: In Washington and Oregon, the average driver rating on Uber is higher than Lyft. But when combined, Lyft’s is higher. How is this possible?

Sample 10/10 answer: How does Apple Pay work?

Estimation Questions

The secret playbook for mastering Google’s Estimation interview (and its follow-up questions)

The #1 big mistake to avoid in Google’s Estimation interviews

The 20+ exact Estimation questions you’re likely to be asked (September 2024)

Estimation

Sample 10/10 answer: How much does the average video call cost Zoom?

Sample 10/10 answer: Estimate the total weight of all the mail & packages that the USPS delivers in the US on an average day.

Sample 10/10 answer: Estimate Apple Music’s annual revenue from subscriptions in the US.

Sample 10/10 answer: Estimate the customer acquisition cost and lifetime value of Spotify users.

Strategy Questions

The 30+ exact Strategy questions you’re likely to be asked (September 2024)

Corporate Strategy

How to flawlessly answer Corporate Strategy questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Why did Microsoft acquire LinkedIn?

Sample 10/10 answer: Should Uber Eats be a separate app from Uber?

Sample 10/10 answer: Should PayPal enter the Web3 market by building a crypto/blockchain product?

Sample 10/10 answer: Should Netflix build a native co-watching experience?

Sample 10/10 answer: Should TikTok acquire Snapchat?

Sample 10/10 answer: Marriott’s CEO has given you a year and 50 employees to reimagine the hotel business. What do you do?

Sample 10/10 answer: If you had to eliminate one Apple product, what would it be and why?

Competitive Analysis

How to flawlessly answer Competitive Analysis questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Why are malls failing? How would you reinvent them?

Sample 10/10 answer: Imagine Microsoft is making an Asana competitor. What value proposition would you choose?

Sample 10/10 answer: How can Dropbox differentiate itself from Box, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.?

Brainstorming

How to flawlessly answer Brainstorming questions

Sample 10/10 answer: You’ve developed a teleportation device. What are some of the use cases and markets for the product?

Sample 10/10 answer: Pitch a non-tech/low-tech idea for all of Ford’s cars.

Sample 10/10 answer: How would you keep Facebook Marketplace safe and prevent scams?

Googleyness & Leadership Questions

What “Googleyness & Leadership” interviews are really testing

The 25+ exact Googleyness & Leadership questions you’re likely to be asked (September 2024)

Tell Me About Yourself

How to answer “tell me about yourself.”

Sample 10/10 answer 1: Tell me about yourself.

Why the above story is powerful

Sample 10/10 answer 2: Tell me about yourself.

Sample 10/10 answer 3: Tell me about yourself.

Leadership and Drive

How to flawlessly answer “Tell me about a time” questions

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time you had to overcome an obstacle.

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time you had to make a really tough decision.

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time you didn’t have the resources to do something but got it done anyway.

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time you created an innovative product.

Sample 10/10 answer: Tell me about a time when you built something outside of work.

Sample 10/10 answer: Describe an instance where you had to make an important decision.

Culture Fit

How to flawlessly answer Culture Fit questions

Sample 10/10 answer: What’s your PM superpower?

Sample 10/10 answer: What is the most important thing a PM does?

Sample 10/10 answer: Why are you interested in this company?

Sample 10/10 answer: How do you stay up-to-date with the tech industry? How do you get inspired with new ideas?