Spotify product manager interview questions
59 questions asked in Spotify product manager interviews: 19 product design, 13 strategy, 15 metrics, 9 behavioral, 3 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 (19)
- How would you improve YouTube?Spotify · Product design · Easy
- How would you re-design the carwash?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- Design a library for the future.Spotify · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve Netflix?Spotify · Product design · Easy
- What is your favorite product? Why?PayPal · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve Spotify?Spotify · Product design · Easy
- How would you create a playlist for a user after they listen to a single song? (in an app like Spotify)Spotify · Product design · Medium
- Spotify has a 1-month trial membership. We noticed that users were not converting to paid membership after the free trial. From a product standpoint, what can you do to improve user engagement and subsequent customer retention?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- How would you design a phone for kids aged less than 5 years?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve a coffee machine used in offices?Spotify · Product design · Easy
- You are the Product Manager at Spotify, and the company has decided to enter the audiobook business. How would you build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for this venture?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- Design a product for Podcast recommendations.Spotify · Product design · Medium
- Pick an app for listening to music & podcasts. What is this app's goal? What does it do well? What can be improved to drive engagement?Spotify · Product design · Easy
- Design a recommendation engine for Spotify.Spotify · Product design · Hard
- How would you design an application that allows singers and musicians to get music gigs and meet up?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- You are the Product Manager at Spotify. To increase new users and to improve retention, one of the frontrunner ideas is building a live concert feature within the app. Talk about this feature in detail and describe how you would go about validating and building it.Spotify · Product design · Hard
- Design a personalized radio station for YouTube Music.Spotify · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Spotify to drive more adoption of the 40-60 year old demographic?Spotify · Product design · Medium
- You’re the Head of Product at Spotify. What would you build and why?Spotify · Product design · Hard
Strategy questions (13)
- We launched in South Africa in 2018, but let's say we didn't. How would you lead a launch into that region?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- Walk me through how you prioritize your product backlog.Spotify · Strategy · Easy
- What should be short and near term goals for Netflix.Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- How would you grow Spotify by 20%?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- You’re a PM at Spotify. The company is considering adding a feature that allows artists to go live on the app. Should they invest in it?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- Should Spotify invest in interactive podcasts?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- Why should Spotify invest in improving shared playlists for friend groups?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- How will you improve ad monetization for streaming services app?Spotify · Strategy · Medium
- What is the future of the streaming music industry in your opinion?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- Should Netflix provide a freemium model? Why?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
- How do you drive social engagement for Spotify?Spotify · Strategy · Medium
- How can you determine the effect a feature will have on product adoption before launching it?Spotify · Strategy · Medium
- How would you increase ad revenue for Spotify?Spotify · Strategy · Hard
Metrics questions (15)
- Utilization went down by 45% on app XYZ in Italy for the month of August. Give a reason why and draft a plan to fix it.Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- Spotify installs increased 25%. What are reasons this might have happened? Give at least four.PayPal · Metrics · Easy
- Set goals for Facebook notifications.Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- How would you measure the success of YouTube?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- There are about 1 million inactive Netflix users. What would you do about them?Spotify · Metrics · Hard
- What are 10 important metrics for Spotify under engagement category? Which one would you improve? Why?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- How do you measure the success of Airbnb online experiences?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- What are the key metrics to be captured for a streaming service product?Spotify · Metrics · Easy
- What would you do if, all of a sudden, our web traffic dropped by 100%?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- You're the product manager at Spotify. Build metrics.Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- You are a PM at Spotify Podcast. What would be your success metrics?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
- There is an issue in a sign-up flow, users are no longer signing up for our service, what would you do?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
- Spotify generates a monthly report that gives details about the user's viewing time, genre, music composer, among others. Why do you think such a report is generated?Spotify · Metrics · Easy
- YouTube shares are up. What do you do?Spotify · Metrics · Hard
- How would you measure engagement for Netflix?Spotify · Metrics · Medium
Behavioral questions (9)
- Tell me about a time when you used data to influence/persuade people.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you disagreed with engineering and what the outcome was.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell us about yourself and your career.Shopify · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you prioritize among competing features?Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time you built something from 0 to 1.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you work with Marketing?Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- How do you work with Designers?Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you used data to reach a conclusion.PayPal · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a product you've built that you're proud of.Spotify · Behavioral · Easy
AI & Technical questions (3)
- How does content personalization work for streaming services?Spotify · AI & Technical · Easy
- How does recommendation work in Instagram?Spotify · AI & Technical · Easy
- How does Spotify’s recommendation system work?Spotify · AI & Technical · Hard
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