The Ultimate List of Product Manager Interview Questions

Editor’s note: this list has been updated for 2021

The types of questions you can expect to be asked in a Product Management interview are pretty vast and varied. But in general, you’ll probably be asked some of the following:

1. What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?
2. How do you stay user-focused?
3. What main changes would you make to [our product]?
4. How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years?
5. Tell us about a time you used data to influence an important stakeholder.
6. Tell us about a time you faced failure and how you bounced back.
7. How would you improve your favorite product?
8. What’s your approach to prioritizing tasks?
9. Why do you want to work at [our company]?
10. Why do you want to be/what do you love about being a Product Manager?

Questions will vary depending on the role, the company, and the industry, and the types of questions you’ll be asked will change as you move through the interview process.

That’s a lot of preparing to do! So here we’ve laid out every single type of question you could possibly be asking in a Product Management interview…

What do Companies Look For in a New Product Manager?

Before we dive into questions, it’s important to get inside your interviewer’s head. What are they looking for?

Aside from intellect, smarts, the power to adapt, think and act on their feet? They want a person who is motivated to do the job, can work with different teams and has the ability to prioritize features that they already know users are looking for. A Product Manager has to be resilient, strategic and insightful. Which means the hiring company will ask a multitude of questions to figure out if you are the one.

Here is the ultimate list of questions you can expect to be asked in a Product Management interview. Get ready to nail the interview!