Behavioral question
How will you provide the estimate to customers/users when you do not have much details about the requirements?
- Amazon
- Behavioral
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What this question tests
Estimation and stakeholder communication under ambiguity, a common real world PM situation with incomplete requirements.
How to approach it
- Describe a specific situation where you had to give an estimate with limited requirement clarity.
- Explain how you broke the work into known and unknown pieces to bound the estimate.
- Describe how you communicated the uncertainty, such as a range instead of a single number.
- State how you validated or refined the estimate as more information became available.
- Share the outcome and whether the estimate held up.
What a strong answer includes
- Gives a real example of breaking work into known versus unknown pieces rather than guessing a single number.
- Shows honest communication of uncertainty, such as a range with confidence levels, instead of overpromising.
- Describes a follow up process to refine the estimate as requirements clarified.
Common mistakes
- Gives a single confident number with no acknowledgment of the underlying uncertainty.
- Provides no example, staying entirely theoretical about estimation technique.
Likely follow-up questions
- How do you handle it when the estimate turns out to be wrong?
- How do you communicate a wide estimate range to an anxious stakeholder?
- What technique do you use to size unfamiliar work?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 13: Lead the room: staff moves, forward-deployed PM, and the portfolio
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop