Uber product manager interview questions
151 questions asked in Uber product manager interviews: 55 product design, 28 strategy, 45 metrics, 10 estimation, 11 behavioral, 2 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 (55)
- How would you improve the Uber app?Lyft · Product design · Easy
- How would you design at ETA system for Lyft drivers?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Design Lyft for kids.Google · Product design · Hard
- Design a loyalty program for a search engine that's competing with Google & Bing.Google · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve the restaurant search?Uber · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a bicycle renting app for tourists?Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a referral system for a grocery app.Google · Product design · Medium
- Give an example of a badly designed product.Adobe · Product design · Easy
- How would you design a car sharing platform like Uber for disabled people?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve Uber?PayPal · Product design · Easy
- Design a library for the future.Spotify · Product design · Hard
- Design Dynamic Pricing for Lyft.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design Uber for kids.Uber · Product design · Hard
- How would you improve Uber for a football event?Google · Product design · Medium
- How can Lyft break into the private ambulance market?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Let’s say that you are the PM for Uber Eats and assume that helping users eat healthier will improve engagement. What new feature will you build to test this assumption?Uber · Product design · Medium
- You have been assigned as the manager to design an incentive structure to the drivers of a cab aggregator. How would design it?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How do you design the Lyft app for the blind?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a fire alarm system for the deaf.Google · Product design · Hard
- Design a carpooling app for women developed by Uber.Uber · Product design · Hard
- Design a product that will disrupt the food delivery industry (e.g. Uber Eats).Uber · Product design · Easy
- Design a bicycle renting app.Uber · Product design · Easy
- Imagine that you are a product manager at Uber. And you want children to use Uber as an independent user. How would you tackle this problem? Feel free to either build a new app or modify existing app.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- At the end of any event (Sports event, Concerts, New Year Event etc.), there is a rush of people leaving the venue all at once and there is a mismatch in demand & supply for Uber. Surge pricing is not so effective in managing it and it also gets us bad press. You are a PM at Uber and have been asked to solve this problem. What product interventions can you introduce here?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you solve the inventory issues with Uber Grocery?Instacart · Product design · Hard
- Design Lyft for deaf drivers.Google · Product design · Hard
- If Uber wants to expand into healthcare transportation, how would you approach building the product?Uber · Product design · Hard
- What are the key Metrics to measure the performance of a company in food delivery business and how can we improve the ones related to churn rate?Google · Product design · Hard
- As a Product Manager for a food delivery app, you have received feedback that the platform seems to lack sufficient healthy food options. What would be your strategy or the next steps you would take to address this concern?Uber · Product design · Medium
- You are tasked with improving podcast engagement on Spotify. What would you do?Uber · Product design · Medium
- How can you optimize drivers' waiting time at Uber?Uber · Product design · Medium
- We are in the year 2050, and the concept of the driverless car has been perfected. What future problems might Uber face, and how can they be addressed?Google · Product design · Medium
- Cancellation rate on Uber is currently at 25%. What would you do to bring this down to 5%?Uber · Product design · Hard
- What is your favorite mobile game and how do you go about improving it?Zynga · Product design · Easy
- How would you improve the driver pickup experience on Uber?Uber · Product design · Easy
- How would you design an Uber riding pass?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- How would design an Uber for laundry?Google · Product design · Medium
- Design a shared carpool experience for Lyft.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a dashboard for Lyft Drivers. What metrics would you use to measure success of this dashboard?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Redesign the city parking experience.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you design Lyft for commuters?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Design the next version of the scheduled rides product to allow drivers to accept scheduled ride requests in advance.Lyft · Product design · Medium
- Imagine you are a PM for UBER for a default pickup location feature. How would you improve this feature?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- How would you improve Uber for a concert/festival?Lyft · Product design · Medium
- In a home delivery type of business, design specific technology/software features that would improve the overall accuracy of the delivery time estimates.Uber · Product design · Medium
- Design Uber for pets.Uber · Product design · Medium
- Design a contactless ride experience for Uber.Lyft · Product design · Hard
- Design a self drive car rental Mobile app.Google · Product design · Medium
- What would you build to replace service dogs?Lyft · Product design · Hard
- How would you design an app for truck dispatchers?Google · Product design · Medium
- Imagine you are the Product Manager at Uber Freight. The CEO asks you to build an in-app chat feature. What would you do?Uber · Product design · Medium
- Uber is built primarily for a core use case of pickups and drop-offs in urban and suburban environments (E.g. home/work/vacations). It doesn’t always work well at events such as concerts, sporting events, and festivals. How will you make Uber to/from large events (10K+ attendees) a magical experience for riders and drivers.Uber · Product design · Hard
- How would you redesign the Uber drivers experience post Covid?Uber · Product design · Hard
- Design a new feature for Uber Eats.Uber · Product design · Easy
- Design a parking garage app.Uber · Product design · Easy
Strategy questions (28)
- Should Uber Eats be a different app from Uber Rides?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Lyft wants to enter the Indian market. What should be the strategy?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Define a strategy of loyalty program for Google Pay.Google · Strategy · Hard
- How can you increase the basket value for Uber Eats orders?Uber · Strategy · Medium
- You own 6 pizza shops in the city and want to improve revenue. Do you develop a mobile app or use Uber Eats?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you acquire more users for Uber?Lyft · Strategy · Easy
- Lyft wants to add Shared Saving rides. What factors will you consider to determine riders' willingness to pay? What experiments will you run to test your assumptions?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Launch Uber in a new city.Swiggy · Strategy · Medium
- Suppose Uber is about to launch Uber Grocery. Walk me through it from 0-1.Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
- What factors need to be considered if you want to launch your product in a new market?Lyft · Strategy · Medium
- You are a PM at Uber. Devise strategies to improve revenue.Swiggy · Strategy · Hard
- How would you design surge pricing for Uber or Lyft?Google · Strategy · Hard
- Suppose you are the PM at Uber Eats and a recent survey results in a data that majority of users want a functionality through which they can order "X" from Restaurant A and "Y" from Restaurant B in a single order. As a PM will you implement such a functionality? If yes how will you go about it?Uber · Strategy · Hard
- Should Lyft build ride scheduling functionality?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- Suppose Uber decides to launch UberEats in a few new cities. How do you choose which cities to launch?Uber · Strategy · Hard
- You notice that 80% of TikTok users only consume content and never create. Is this a problem?Uber · Strategy · Hard
- Should Uber reintroduce Uber Pool in India?Uber · Strategy · Hard
- What are all the factors to be considered when launching Uber in a new city?Uber · Strategy · Hard
- Only 1 in 5 drivers gets tipped. How would you help drivers get more tips on Uber?Uber · Strategy · Hard
- Build and launch Uber for Events. Focus on rides to/from large events (10,000+ attendees) and create a magical experience for riders and drivers.Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- What pricing enhancements can we make to reduce driver rejections?Lyft · Strategy · Medium
- How will you improve the monetization strategy for Uber drivers?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- If you are CEO of Uber, what should you do next?Lyft · Strategy · Hard
- How would you reduce operational costs for Uber Eats?Uber · Strategy · Medium
- What would be the strategy to increase Uber's revenue in the taxi in the ride hailing business?Lyft · Strategy · Medium
- Launch a strategy for Uber for one city.Uber · Strategy · Hard
- You are a PM at Uber and you have to evaluate whether to add "Cash" as a method of payment. How would you decide?Razorpay · Strategy · Hard
- How do you capture customer satisfaction when there is a lack of survey responses?Uber · Strategy · Medium
Metrics questions (45)
- Late deliveries lead to customer churn. What data we should look at to prove this hypothesis for a food delivery app?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
- Which metrics would you track for Uber Pool during the first 6 months after product launch?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- Uber has seen a dip in the ride confirmation rate. As a PM at Uber, you are responsible to investigate and fix the issue. How will you go about it?Uber · Metrics · Hard
- How would you describe and assess how the Uber Marketplace (the matching platform) is doing, for UberX?Uber · Metrics · Hard
- How would reduce cancellations for Uber?Shopify · Metrics · Medium
- What is the most important metric for Uber Eats? Why?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- There is a data point that indicates that there are more Uber drop-offs at the airport than pick-ups from the airport. Why is this the case and what would you do within the product to change that?PayPal · Metrics · Hard
- How would you measure the success of Uber Ride?Lyft · Metrics · Easy
- If a large number of drivers are dropping out of a particular city, why would it be?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Drivers are dropping out of a city on Lyft. How do you figure out what's going on?PayPal · Metrics · Medium
- If you were the PM for Lyft, what dashboard would you build to track the health of the app?Google · Metrics · Hard
- What are your solutions to reduce the car cancellation rate on the Uber waiting page?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- If Uber Eats orders are down how will you track the root cause?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- How would you measure the success of Uber Grocery?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- Around 40% of reviews in Amazon are fake. As a PM in Amazon, how will you tackle the problem? Break your answer into 3 parts — 1. How will you identify a review is fake? 2. What action will you take? 3. If the number of fake reviews are decreased, what will be the impact?Google · Metrics · Hard
- Users are having decision fatigue on the Uber Eats food delivery app. What kind of success metrics would you use to check the impact?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- How would you measure the success of Uber Freight?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- How would you increase the average Uber driver rating in your area from its current 4.5?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- As a Product manager at a food delivery app, you observe a downward trend in number of orders fulfilled. How would you identify the root cause??Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- What is the North Star metric for a campaign to incentivize dormant users with a $10 credit?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- Imagine you are a PM of Uber's search map. How would you calculate its success?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- What is the success metric for Airbnb's booking experience?Lyft · Metrics · Easy
- The rider experience with Airport rides is going down. What would you do?Google · Metrics · Medium
- Assume you are the product owner for Airbnb’s Mobile app and that there is a data point that indicates that there are more mobile web than mobile app users of Airbnb. Please describe why this could be the case, and describe what you would do within the product to change that. Lower fidelity mockups, where applicable, would be helpful.Lyft · Metrics · Hard
- There is a spike in Lyft ride cancellations this week. Why could this be the case?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Should Spotify build a short-form video feature to compete with TikTok?Uber · Metrics · Hard
- What metrics would you use to measure success in designing the estimated time of arrival?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- If you were the Senior PM at Uber, how would you define the metrics and north star of your team before leaving for a 2-month break?Uber · Metrics · Hard
- What are the success metrics for an app-based taxi aggregator (competitor of Uber) during the initial phase?Uber · Metrics · Hard
- How would you triage a 10% drop in rider cancellations?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- You are a product manager for online marketplace for pre-owned bicycles. CEO has identified three goals. 1. Build high trust between buyers and sellers 2. Create a viral marketplace and 3. Present the best portfolio of bicycles. What are the KPIs for each of the three goals?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- What would be the next big feature you would launch on Uber to improve Customer Retention and Average Spend?Lyft · Metrics · Hard
- How would you evaluate a dataset we're going to purchase that has competitor data on rides (in the U.S)?Uber · Metrics · Hard
- As a PM for Uber, how will you help riders from forgetting their phone in Uber?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- How would you measure the success of Uber Instant Pay?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- As a PM of Uber, how would you solve the problem of sudden increase in demand of cabs when an event is over?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Uber is facing a challenge with the increase in cancelled rides especially during peak hours. As product manager, how would you solve this situation?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Rider experience for Uber Airport rides is down in the last 6 months. What would you do?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- You are the product manager for Lyft Direct Debit Card for drivers. The product just launched. How do you build this product's first dashboard?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- What are product success metrics for the Uber Split Fare and how you measure it?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- You have to launch an Uber Rider pass in your city. What should be the price of the pass?Lyft · Metrics · Medium
- Design a banking application for a blind customer or with low vision impairment.Google · Metrics · Hard
- How do you increase the volume of breakfast orders for Uber Eats?Uber · Metrics · Medium
- Uber could use two strategies to notify drivers when a ride is requested: broadcast to all drivers in the vicinity or sequentially notify drivers. As an Uber PM, explain which one you would choose and why.Uber · Metrics · Hard
- How would you A/B test a new feature for Uber drivers without negatively impacting the platform?Uber · Metrics · Medium
Estimation questions (10)
- 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 for driverless cars in 2020?Google · Estimation · Easy
- How many drivers does Uber have in a medium sized US city?Lyft · Estimation · Easy
- How do you go about calculating the TAM, SAM and Target Market for the food tech industry?Uber · Estimation · Medium
- Estimate the fuel consumption of cars in USA.Uber · Estimation · Medium
- How would you determine how many trips are taken on the London Underground each year?Lyft · Estimation · Easy
- Estimate the amount of gasoline consumed in 24 hours a day.Uber · Estimation · Easy
- What is the Lifetime Value of an uber user?Uber · Estimation · Medium
- How would you price a Tier 1 and Tier 2 Uber subscription?Lyft · Estimation · Hard
- How many ride-share trips occur in the US daily?Google · Estimation · Easy
Behavioral questions (11)
- How do you know when to cut corners to get a product out the door?Shopify · Behavioral · Medium
- Your Engineering Manager wants to work on a new feature and you absolutely have no bandwidth. How will you handle it?PayPal · Behavioral · Medium
- Suppose a stakeholder wants you to add a new feature to your roadmap and you think that it should not be implemented. How would you convince them to drop it?Lyft · Behavioral · Medium
- You are a senior PM for a data product. How would you prioritize requirements between top customer requests, technical debt of previously delivered features, and partner team requirements for critical integration?Uber · Behavioral · Hard
- Tell me about a time you had to change a KPI.Uber · Behavioral · Easy
- You need to pitch a new feature to executives and stakeholders. How would you do it?Uber · Behavioral · Medium
- What are the key components of a PRD?Uber · Behavioral · Easy
- What would you say as your achievements in your current role?Airbnb · Behavioral · Easy
- What is the most creative thing that you have done as a Product Manager?Google · Behavioral · Easy
- Tell me about a time when you saw an opportunity through obstacles and seized it.Uber · Behavioral · Easy
- Give an example of a time when you led multiple large complex projects.Uber · Behavioral · Easy
AI & Technical questions (2)
- Build a system to predict if something can go wrong in a cab ride.Lyft · AI & Technical · Hard
- Create the algorithm for ridesharing concept for uber pool. Explain the goals, logic, factors considered and success metrics.Lyft · AI & Technical · Hard
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