Behavioral Interview Questions for Product Managers
STAR stories on leadership, conflict, failure and ownership, including Amazon Leadership Principles, with what a strong answer covers.
- Why product management, and why now? (Easy)
- Your proudest product or project (Easy)
- Customer Obsession: going beyond for a customer (Easy)
- Learning something new fast (Easy)
- Prioritising competing requests (Easy)
- Hard feedback you received (Easy)
- A decision you made with data (Easy)
- Keeping a team motivated (Easy)
- Disagreeing with an engineering lead (Medium)
- A product that failed (Medium)
- Have Backbone; Disagree and Commit (Medium)
- Influence without authority (Medium)
- Working with high ambiguity (Medium)
- Deliver Results under a tight deadline (Medium)
- Saying no to a senior leader (Medium)
- When users surprised you (Medium)
- Invent and Simplify (Medium)
- A deadline you missed (Medium)
- Helping someone grow (Medium)
- Bias for Action with incomplete information (Medium)
- Killing a project people loved (Hard)
- Think Big: a bold vision (Hard)
- Doing the right thing under pressure (Hard)
- Leading through an outage or crisis (Hard)
- Earn Trust after a mistake (Hard)
- Changing a team's strategy (Hard)
- Hire and Develop the Best (Hard)
- Trading quality for speed (Hard)
- Dive Deep into a problem (Hard)
- Aligning teams across time zones (Hard)