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Behavioural
Past experience: what you did and what happened.
220 questions
Technical
Craft knowledge and how you would do the work.
572 questions
Case
A scenario to reason through and decide.
29 questions
System design
Design a system and defend the trade-offs.
13 questions
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- TechnicalMid levelHotel Front Desk Agent
The hotel is overbooked and a guest with a confirmed reservation arrives and there is no room. What do you do?
Tests: Reservations and hotel systems
- TechnicalMid levelHotel Front Desk Agent
How do you offer a room upgrade without it feeling like a sales pitch?
Tests: Local knowledge and upselling
- TechnicalSeniorHotel Front Desk Agent
It is the middle of the night and the fire alarm goes off. What is your role at the front desk?
Tests: Security and guest privacy
- TechnicalSeniorHotel Front Desk Agent
At the end of your shift, your cash drawer and payments do not balance. Walk me through how you would track it down.
Tests: Payment handling and accuracy
- TechnicalSeniorHotel Front Desk Agent
A guest with a large group wants to change several reservations at the last minute. How do you handle it in the system and with them?
Tests: Reservations and hotel systems
- TechnicalEntry levelProduct Manager
If you were asked to improve a product you had never used before, how would you figure out what its users actually need?
Tests: Customer discovery
- TechnicalMid levelProduct Manager
Walk me through how you defined success for a feature you recently shipped, and which numbers you watched after launch.
Tests: Product metrics & analytics
- TechnicalMid levelProduct Manager
How do you work with engineers and designers to turn a rough problem into something the team can build? Give me a recent example.
Tests: Requirements & delivery
- TechnicalMid levelProduct Manager
A senior sales leader insists a big customer needs a feature that is not on your roadmap. How do you handle that conversation?
Tests: Prioritisation & roadmapping
- TechnicalSeniorProduct Manager
How have you shaped a product strategy a year or more out, and how did you get leadership and the team to commit to it?
Tests: Product strategy & vision
- TechnicalSeniorProduct Manager
How do you balance short-term revenue requests against longer-term platform investment when you build a roadmap?
Tests: Prioritisation & roadmapping
- TechnicalAny levelProduct Manager
Your main engagement metric drops ten percent overnight. Talk me through how you would investigate it.
Tests: Product metrics & analytics
- TechnicalAny levelProduct Manager
How do you think about where AI features genuinely help users in a product, versus where they just add noise?
Tests: Product strategy & vision
- TechnicalEntry levelTechnical Product Manager
In simple terms, how would you explain what happens behind the scenes when someone taps a button in an app and their data loads?
Tests: Technical fluency
- TechnicalEntry levelTechnical Product Manager
If an engineer told you a feature would take three times longer than expected, what questions would you ask them?
Tests: Requirements & technical specs
- TechnicalMid levelTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about a technical spec or requirements document you wrote. How did you decide what level of detail engineers needed?
Tests: Requirements & technical specs
- TechnicalMid levelTechnical Product Manager
How do you decide how much of a quarter to spend on technical debt versus new features? Give me a real example.
Tests: Prioritising technical debt
- TechnicalMid levelTechnical Product Manager
Walk me through how you would measure the health of an internal platform that other teams depend on.
Tests: Data & metrics
- TechnicalSeniorTechnical Product Manager
How do you decide whether to build a capability in house, buy a vendor tool, or adopt an open source option?
Tests: System & platform thinking
- TechnicalAny levelTechnical Product Manager
When a breaking change to a platform is unavoidable, how do you roll it out to the teams who depend on it?
Tests: Developer experience