Question bank
Interview questions, with guidance on how to answer
834 questions across 64 roles. Open one to see what a strong answer includes and common slips, then drill it out loud with Ava. New to answer structure? Start with the learning hub.
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
834 questions.
- 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
- BehaviouralMid levelHotel Front Desk Agent
You have a line of four guests, the phone is ringing and someone is asking you about parking. How do you manage it?
Tests: Composure under pressure
- 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
- BehaviouralSeniorHotel Front Desk Agent
Tell me about a time you turned around a guest who was really unhappy.
Tests: Complaint handling and service recovery
- 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
- BehaviouralAny levelHotel Front Desk Agent
What makes a guest feel truly welcome at a hotel?
Tests: Communication
- 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
- CaseEntry levelProduct Manager
Imagine you have three feature requests and time to build only one. How would you decide which to do first?
Tests: Prioritisation & roadmapping
- BehaviouralEntry levelProduct Manager
Tell me about a time you had to explain a complicated idea to someone without your background. How did you make sure it landed?
Tests: Stakeholder communication
- 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
- BehaviouralMid levelProduct Manager
Tell me about a time an experiment or launch did not go the way you expected. What did you learn and what did you change?
Tests: Experimentation & launch
- BehaviouralMid levelProduct Manager
Describe a time customer research changed your mind about what to build.
Tests: Customer discovery
- 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
- BehaviouralSeniorProduct Manager
Tell me about a time you decided to stop or kill something your team had invested in. How did you make that call?
Tests: Ownership & judgement
- 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