Amazon product manager interview questions
274 questions asked in Amazon product manager interviews: 68 product design, 60 strategy, 31 metrics, 15 estimation, 96 behavioral, 4 AI & technical. Each has an answer guide, and you can practice any of them in a mock interview.
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Product design questions (68)
- Redesign Twitter for eCommerce.Shopify · Product design · Hard
- Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.Google · Product design · Hard
- For a retail store, users are frequently complaining about long queues during check out. What strategy would you use to improve the experience in the short term and long term?Shopify · Product design · Medium
- Give an example of a badly designed product.Adobe · Product design · Easy
- Design a library for the future.Spotify · Product design · Hard
- Explain some new Alexa Skillsets you would roll out and why.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Amazon?Amazon · Product design · Easy
- You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for paying credit card bills.Shopify · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Amazon.com or Amazon.in?Amazon · Product design · Easy
- You are a new PM at Google Pay. Design a feature for budgeting.Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a product to improve the lunch experience in XYZ company.Google · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a test to measure the success of using a gift card promotion to get Prime members to download the Prime mobile app?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you design Alexa for the blind people?Swiggy · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve a coffee machine used in offices?Spotify · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a "Pay Later" feature for Amazon app?Shopify · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve order conversions by optimising the product descriptions page for a fashion Ecommerce platform?Shopify · Product design · Medium
- How do you design a home automation system?Google · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a feature to reduce Amazon's order return rate.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Amazon Prime?Amazon · Product design · Easy
- Design a simple video conferencing application like Zoom.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How will you go about designing search for an e-commerce app?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Suggest a feature for Amazon that would improve user experience?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Pick a cause you are passionate about - example climate change, education, hunger, health, etc. - and design an app for it.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Amazon has decided to enter the African market. Design its Home Page.Amazon · Product design · Hard
- As a PM for Alexa, you want to increase engagement for kitchen use. What would you do?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Design a product for people to learn how to play musical instruments.Google · Product design · Medium
- Consider Amazon Prime's search engine. How would you enhance user experience while searching for videos?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Using AI/ML, how can Amazon detect and prevent fraud done by retailers listed on Amazon e-commerce websiteAmazon · Product design · Hard
- Redesign Amazon home page for the great Indian festival season sale. What are the key metrics you will track?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you increase sales at Amazon?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Describe one feature that you would like to improve in the Amazon app.Amazon · Product design · Easy
- How would you validate your product design?Amazon · Product design · Easy
- What 2 new features will you add in Whatsapp for users like you and me?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- What improvements would you make to enhance the payout experience for Amazon sellers?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Design a post-Coronavirus supermarket.Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Design a smart fridge. Take me through the steps to come up with the product.Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a toll system for highways.Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Design a TV from Amazon.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Amazon Photos?Amazon · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a feature to allow Amazon shoppers to upload video for product reviews?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- You inherited a team/product riddled with issues. What are you going to do as a PM?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Design a best time management and tracking application for IT employees to track, monitor, gather progress.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How will you design a OLA/Uber kind of car booking platform where a user is able to book a vehicle and able to avail the service with near real time updates?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Consider you are assigned to find the best Sort option for product list pages. How would you solve this problem?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Add food ordering capability to Amazon Echo. How would you go about designing the product?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you make sure Amazon gives relevant results if a user types in the product details in local language?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- What would be your product strategy if Jeff Bezos would ask you to develop a contactless grocery store?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Facebook is a multinational company with many offices around the world. Its employees are constantly traveling. Build a solution for FB employees travel.Google · Product design · Hard
- Design a video chat app for families to stay in touch.Amazon · Product design · Easy
- What is that one product feature that would change the landscape of Devops/GitOps?Google · Product design · Hard
- You are the Product Manager at Flipkart. How would you design a UMS (User Management System) that would be used by different teams at Flipkart? You do not need to focus on the scalability of the system.Amazon · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve the conversion rate of a VPN product?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Suggest a new feature for a PUBG mobile game.Google · Product design · Easy
- If you could build any product, what would you build?Google · Product design · Easy
- You are PM at Amazon in charge of launching Amazon's Bikeshare program. How would you go about it?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Let's say we wanted to implement a feature in Gmail similar to Amazon Mayday. How would that work?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- How would you design an app for truck dispatchers?Google · Product design · Medium
- Explain some new Alexa Skillsets you would roll out and why.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Evaluate an app design using these five design principles: Innovative, Understandable, Aesthetic, Honest, Useful.Amazon · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- You are product manager of Amazon.co.in home page. How will you improve the product?Amazon · Product design · Easy
- Design an AWS service to help customers digitize their paper receipts.Amazon · Product design · Hard
- How would you design a voice-driven calling app similar to Alexa or Google Home’s call functionality? What are your considerations regarding user privacy, data security, and user experience?Amazon · Product design · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you had to come up with an innovative solution.Amazon · Product design · Easy
- Design a product to recommend items to customers for purchasing via Amazon Prime Now, with the objective of optimizing the number of stock keeping units (SKUs) and warehouse space.Amazon · Product design · Hard
- When designing maps for last-mile delivery, what factors would you prioritize to ensure efficient and accurate routing?Amazon · Product design · Hard
- Design an AI agent that can take actions on behalf of users. How would you define its permissioning and control model?OpenAI · Product design · Hard
- With a mandate to improve the merchant experience on Amazon, what would you build next?Amazon · Product design · Medium
Strategy questions (60)
- How would you launch (roll out) Amazon Go?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Imagine you're a PM at Amazon and you're working on a partnership with Facebook that has the goal of leveraging FB's friend network to drive Amazon sales. Walk through the lifecycle for building this integration/partnership.Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How will you reduce Paypal's operating costs by 50%?PayPal · Strategy · Hard
- Define a strategy of loyalty program for Google Pay.Google · Strategy · Hard
- How would you determine if a specific block in your neighborhood is suitable for a new grocery store?Shopify · Strategy · Medium
- Compare Amazon Prime, Netflix and Hotstar. Which is your favorite and why?Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- You're the PM at a pharmaceutical company. How would you go about launching a new sleeping pill?Shopify · Strategy · Hard
- How would you sell live plants on Amazon?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Amazon is planning to expand its operations to Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. They have observed that users don't trust the brand. What should they do to build trust with the user base?Snapdeal · Strategy · Medium
- How would you decide on the price of Amazon Prime?Google · Strategy · Hard
- If the customer refuses to accept the new product, how will you handle it?Shopify · Strategy · Easy
- Evaluate the upsides and downsides of building a super app — an app having all major B2C features including entertainment, e-commerce, food ordering, hotel booking, cab booking, chat, holiday planning, gaming, med ordering, service booking, etc.Google · Strategy · Hard
- Should Amazon offer “Amazon Prime Lite,” which offers just a few perks of Amazon Prime at a fraction of the cost? If the answer is yes, what would you include in Prime Lite, and how much should it cost?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How would you monetize Wikipedia?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- This is an interview question, with a few sub-questions I was able to get after asking them: How would you determine the roadmap for a product? (Assume any product and any feature). What are the key criteria's/aspects you will consider to create this road map? How much weight will your roadmap have for user-driven features?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- How do you prepare for a beta launch?Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- Imagine you're helping the marketing team to identify opportunities to launch EVE (the first electrical Vertical Take-Off and Landing vehicle) in the country. How would you choose the city to start the operation? What kind of studies would you do to choose the city?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How would you increase the basket size of different products for users?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- Amazon wants to enter the e-learning market. What should be the strategy?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- If you are a Chief Product Officer for YouTube, how would you explain the product to someone? What are the top three metrics you would keep track of?Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- You are PM at Amazon and you are asked to change the pricing for the Prime membership. How would you go about it?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- What product feature prioritization framework should be used for a product developed for both internal teams and external customers? How should features be prioritized?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How would you go about introducing Whole Foods into the Amazon catalog?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- You are a platform PM for AWS. There is a new third party platform that is becoming really popular in integrating with existing cloud platforms to improve the load balancing of app traffic. What metrics and goals would you consider in the build/buy decision?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How can you increase Amazon's revenue (focus on the e-commerce space)?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Should Amazon cut its affiliate rates?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- What don't you like about SaaS and why?Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- How would you Improve customer revenue for Amazon?Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- Should LinkedIn add a Video Feed feature?Google · Strategy · Hard
- Do you recall a process change you suggested that became a norm within your team or company later on?Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- How would you design an online map that would help navigation inside a building?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- How would you launch a product to teach programming languages for older people in India? What would be the potential market size for the product?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- You are the PM for express delivery for an online pharmacy. What will you do before launching it in a new city?Shopify · Strategy · Medium
- Should Amazon launch a smartphone?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Design a product to improve diners' experiences at restaurants after they finish the meal.Google · Strategy · Medium
- You are the founder of a credit card startup. What are the different growth metrics you would track in the early days?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- Define a strategy for Netflix to compete with Amazon Prime and Disney+ Hotstar to adopt to users in the Indian OTT market.Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Amazon Prime is considering launching a variant of its video streaming service to senior citizens (60+yrs). What parameters will you study to understand whether it will be successful to launch their product for this segment? How will you conclude whether it will be a success?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Tell me about an Amazon product marketing strategy.Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- What data analysis will you perform to launch a new physical product?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- A new product video review feature, which increases sales, can be rolled out now with 2 hour video processing turnaround or 6 months later with instant processing using Machine Learning. Would you roll it out now or later?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- You are new PM on Alexa team. You are asked to come up with a Product Strategy for next few years. What would you do?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How do you price a new tier for Amazon S3?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- You are the product manager for Amazon Quality and Logistics team and want to reduce customer returns. What would be your process and what would you build?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Write about a judgment call you've made recently that couldn't be analyzed.Amazon · Strategy · Easy
- Would you consider Amazon and Intuit to be competitors?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- You are eating in your company cafeteria and someone taps you on your shoulder. It's your CEO asking you what the company should do next. What would you do?Google · Strategy · Hard
- What do you think is Amazon's challenge right now?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- What should be the Go to Market strategy for driverless cars?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How would you Improve customer referral for Amazon?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- How would you Improve customer retention for Amazon?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- How would you Improve customer activation for Amazon?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- How would you Improve customer acquisition for Amazon?Amazon · Strategy · Medium
- How would you launch electric bikes directly to consumers?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Amazon is thinking of building a social network feature into its product. Choose either pros or cons and state your case.Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- Should Amazon Fresh enter the 10-minute grocery delivery service market in India?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- How can you determine the effect a feature will have on product adoption before launching it?Spotify · Strategy · Medium
- Amazon is interested in entering the Home Improvement services market, What MVP would you launch?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
- You are a product manager at a start-up which makes a teleportation device. How will you go about it?Google · Strategy · Hard
- Should Amazon sell live animals?Amazon · Strategy · Hard
Metrics questions (31)
- Walmart's order return rate is increasing. As a product manager, what things would you look into to isolate the problem?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- One of the brands in the grocery category is not selling and has stocks left that are soon to expire. Specify all possible reasons for it and also suggest solutions for each of the reasons.Shopify · Metrics · Medium
- A metric for a video streaming service dropped by 80%. What do you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
- You are a PM for an e-commerce company. Due to some mistakes, the data team lost all key metrics. What are the metrics you will track as PM?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- Your new feature boosts Amazon Search by 10%, adds 2s to load time. What do you do?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- How would you change the Amazon Fresh experience and how would you measure them?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- Imagine you are a PM in Amazon. How would you reduce the rate of returns?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- Amazon is developing a machine learning algorithm to better target shoppers who have saved items in their shopping carts. The algorithm will send an email to users to remind them about their shopping carts. What factors would you consider when designing this algorithm? What variables would you tweak to yield higher shopping cart purchase rates?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- You are a PM for LinkedIn Trust Team. A number of senior influencers at LinkedIn have complained that they receive innumerable spam connection requests and they threaten to leave the platform or launch a tirade against LinkedIn. What do you do?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- Number of users on an Amazon website drops by 10%. What are the possible reasons, and how can we solve it?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- How would you find if a customer is brand agnostic or not when shopping?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- Pick a feature from a product of your choice & tell us how will you assess the success of that feature. Assume it is being launched now.Google · Metrics · Medium
- You are the PM for Amazon's cart page. How would you build a dashboard to measure success?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- How would you pack & ship exactly 1 lb of Apples?Google · Metrics · Easy
- Amazon's Monthly Active Users (MAU) have been steadily increasing for the past six months, indicating robust user engagement. Nevertheless, the average sales per user has consistently declined during this period. What might be the reasons behind this trend?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- What metrics would you use to measure the success of Amazon Echo DotAmazon · Metrics · Medium
- As a PM at Amazon, if returns and cancellations have recently peaked, how would you go about identifying the root cause?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- You are a new player in a competitive e-commerce market. A customer has raised a request for return of a product which has crossed its return expiration date. What would you do?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- You are a PM at Amazon and are responsible for the search feature. You have been asked to decide how many search results should be displayed on a single page when searching on Amazon. How would you go about it?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- How would you regain lost sellers at Amazon without crunching its budget?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- Amazon has noticed a 20% drop in daily active users in India. Find the Root cause?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- You are a Product Manager at Amazon, and the checkout conversion rate has declined. What steps would you take to address and improve this?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- How would you solve for an increase in the cart abandonment rate?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- You are a PM at a food delivery firm. Your data analyst comes up to you and tells you that there is a spike at breakfast, dinner and lunch time. However, at lunch, the conversion is 2% when compared to dinner and breakfast which is 10%. How would you go about solving this problem?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- Amazon has been seeing an increase in their volumes for the past one year. Their logistics team is facing challenges now. You are the PM to help them manage logistics. What would you recommend as a product?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- Amazon just started a pharmacy business. How would you ensure success of the business?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- Imagine that in your daily routine of checking conversion funnel, you realize a 20% drop in checkout funnel. What would you do?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
- How do you ensure you're solving the right problem?Amazon · Metrics · Easy
- Design a banking application for a blind customer or with low vision impairment.Google · Metrics · Hard
- How would you optimize Amazon’s product recommendation algorithm to increase conversions?Amazon · Metrics · Hard
- Amazon is testing a new voice-shopping feature. How would you design an A/B test to validate whether it increases purchase frequency?Amazon · Metrics · Medium
Estimation questions (15)
- How would you estimate how many people are watching Youtube in India right now?Amazon · Estimation · Easy
- You have a grocery delivery service that delivers food within 24 hours. How many trucks would you need to operate it?Google · Estimation · Medium
- What is the market size of toilet paper in the US?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How would you estimate the number of new users Amazon gets in a day?Google · Estimation · Easy
- You are a product delivery manager at Amazon. Estimate how many face masks Amazon needs to stock in UK stores during the COVID-19 lockdown period.Amazon · Estimation · Medium
- Tesla claims it will make Auto Garage Shops obsolete due to zero maintenance. Estimate how many jobs will be impacted in the US in 5 years and 10 years.Google · Estimation · Hard
- How much time is spent waiting per day for a real human in the Automated Systems in the US?Google · Estimation · Hard
- How many reviews are left on Amazon on a given Monday?Amazon · Estimation · Medium
- How many passenger car tires will be sold in financial year 2022-2023 in India?Amazon · Estimation · Medium
- Imagine you have developed a toothbrush that will last a lifetime for a user. How will you price it?Amazon · Estimation · Medium
- How many X-Rays are done in the World in a Year?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How many unique people write reviews on Amazon every month?Amazon · Estimation · Easy
- How would you estimate purchase order abuse in Amazon? How would you solve it?Amazon · Estimation · Hard
- How much does a driverless truck cost?Amazon · Estimation · Easy
- How many hexagons are there on a football?Amazon · Estimation · Easy
Behavioral questions (96)
- How do you define a good PM vs. a bad PM?Google · Behavioral · Easy
- What is the most challenging project you have been on?Adobe · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you make sure you keep improving as a PM?Google · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you motivate a Product team?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you prioritize requirements?PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you used data to influence/persuade people.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you had conflict with a team member or a manager.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- How will you approach your boss two days before launch and tell him that you are not ready?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- How would you make something significantly simpler for a customer?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with engineering and what the outcome was.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- How will you manage a team where team members are more experienced than you and hence don't respect you?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me a time when you influenced engineering to build a particular feature.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Why should Amazon not hire you?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How will you deal with a talented but abrasive manager?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Was there a time when you disagreed with the manager's decision? How did it play out, and what happened in the end?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time you were trying to understand a problem on your team and you had to go down several layers to figure it out. Who did you talk with and what information proved most valuable? How did you use that information to help solve the problem?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Describe the most significant, continuous improvement project that you’ve led. What was the catalyst for this change and how did you go about it?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell us about yourself and your career.Shopify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you changed your decision in a meeting based on inputs from your stakeholders. What was the situation? Why did you make the original decision? What convinced you to change your decision?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you made a product or process simpler for your customers that had a significant impact.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you prioritize among competing features?Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you've had to change the way you work.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Why did you choose product management as a career?Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you gave a simple solution to a complex problemAmazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you were not able to convince your manager.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you faced a problem that had multiple possible solutions.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How will you communicate to your team that you had made a mistake? What would be your steps to do so?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you had to manage upwards (that is, you had to manage and align stakeholders with higher titles than you to get things done).Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- How would you motivate the team to stack hands around your idea?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you motivate a team?Shopify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell us about a time you had an idea that your team was skeptical about. How did you convince your team that you were right?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Provide an example of when you had to analyze a large amount of data and what insights you were able to come up with.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me a time that you were half way meeting your goal but you had to pivot because you found the goal might not be right.Amazon · Behavioral · Hard
- Tell me about a time when you made a difficult decision with input from many different sources (customers, stakeholders, partner teams, etc.). What was the situation and how did you arrive at your decision? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one? Why or why not?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you proactively identified an issue that would impact your team. How did you solve it?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- The organization is going through a major transformation that will span multiple years and you have been asked to lead a product/project that has already missed multiple deadlines and has misalignments with its cross functional teams. How would you approach this and what product management tools/method will you use to deliver the product and its milestones?Amazon · Behavioral · Hard
- Tell me about a time when you received harsh feedback. How did you react?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you determine what customers want and need?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you solved for unexpressed need of customer.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you were not satisfied with something happening in organisation.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time you received a constructive feedback from your ManagerPayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you were given a project without all necessary tools.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you know if your users are satisfied with your product?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me a time when you had to mend your relationship with a colleague.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you didn't have enough data to make the right decision. What did you do? What path did you take? Did the decision turn out to be the correct one?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- What is an example of asking 5 whys to a customer?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you didn't get along with a coworker. How did you deal with it?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Give an example of a mission or goal you didn't think was achievable. What was it and how did you help your team try to achieve it? Were you successful in the end?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with a team member.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Describe for me a time where you had to do research to create a product or service.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- What is the toughest problem that you have solved as a Product Manager?PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Can you describe your most difficult customer and how you were able to handle their needs?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you have had to drive change.Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you overcame a difficult challenge.Google · Behavioral · Easy
- How many people report into you? What is your leadership style?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a product you managed from idea to launch.Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a product you've built that you're proud of.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you needed to make a product tradeoff.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about about a time you built a product roadmap.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you interact with the engineering team?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Who was your most difficult customer? How did you handle them?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you mitigate risks associated with Product decisions?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me a time when you designed a product feature that didn't go well. And how did you overcome that situation?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about your most significant accomplishment. Why was it significant?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you failed.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- What is the most creative thing that you have done as a Product Manager?Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time in which you had to balance the needs of the customer with the needs of the business. How did you navigate this situation, and what were the outcomes?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you had to take a calculated risk in a critical situation with a short deadline. How did it turn out, and what did you learn from the experience?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Why Amazon and why AWS?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Why do you want to work for Amazon?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you made a decision that was not data-driven. What is something that you could've changed to make that decision?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- What is the most innovative thing you've done?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me of a time when a technical decision you took fell apart.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you had to deep dive and dig data to solve a problem.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you had to make a trade-off between a deadline and standards. And would you do it again the same way? Why or why not?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- How will you provide the estimate to customers/users when you do not have much details about the requirements?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you worked on a critical project under tight deadline. What did you sacrifice to achieve it? How did you overcome challenges? What were the short term and long term impacts of this project?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you challenged the status quo. How did you manage to change? What challenges did you face while changing? What were the outcomes? What would have you done better?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you worked on a project and realized that there is more potential in it that you thought initially.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- You are the PM and need to develop a product feature that the engineering team says they need 4 weeks to develop. However, the stakeholders have only two weeks to implement this feature. What would you do to solve the timing issue?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you changed the direction of a team.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- What's the most interesting/impactful project you have done?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a trade-off you made.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a creative solution you came up with.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- What leadership principles do you relate to the most?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you work with your teams?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you got involved in a project that was not yours to start with.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you didn’t win during a negotiation with your stakeholders.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- How did you prepare for this interview?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Why Amazon? What does Amazon provide that your previous companies didn’t?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you got creative. Why did you go for that solution? What was the motivation? How did your stakeholders react?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Please build and present your approach on how you work with teams to gather feedback, prioritize, make decisions and break down the work with engineering.Amazon · Behavioral · Hard
- Tell me about a situation where you had to communicate a difficult situation to a customer due to a technical constraint.Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- What has been the biggest learning you carried as a product manager?Amazon · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you had to sacrifice short-term gains for the long-term success of your product. What were all the things you considered while making the decision? How did you make the decision?Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
- Tell me about a time when you had to let go off a feature that you have been working on.Amazon · Behavioral · Medium
AI & Technical questions (4)
- Design a simple load balancer for Google.com. What data structures would you use?Google · AI & Technical · Hard
- How would you design a system that allocates package delivery orders to drivers and maximizes fufillment during busy and non busy hoursAmazon · AI & Technical · Hard
- Design a file download API. A client will send the URL of the file they want to download.Amazon · AI & Technical · Medium
- How does product recommendation work on Amazon?Amazon · AI & Technical · Hard
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