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834 questions.

BehaviouralAny levelProduct Manager
Tell me about a product decision you owned that turned out to be wrong. What happened next?
Tests: Ownership & judgement
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
BehaviouralEntry levelTechnical Product Manager
Imagine two engineering teams disagree about who should own a shared service. How would you help them reach a decision?
Tests: Cross-team communication
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
BehaviouralMid levelTechnical Product Manager
Describe a time you worked on a product used by developers, like a platform service or developer tool. How did you learn what they needed?
Tests: Developer experience
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
BehaviouralMid levelTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about a time you had to understand a system's architecture well enough to make a product call. How did you get up to speed?
Tests: Technical fluency
CaseSeniorTechnical Product Manager
You need to plan a migration from an old system to a new one without downtime for customers. How would you approach sequencing and risk?
Tests: System & platform thinking
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
BehaviouralSeniorTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about a time an engineering lead and a business leader wanted opposite things. How did you broker a decision?
Tests: Cross-team communication
BehaviouralAny levelTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about an outage or serious bug that affected your product. What was your role, and what changed afterwards?
Tests: Ownership
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
TechnicalEntry levelProduct Designer
Walk me through a project in your portfolio, starting with the problem you were solving rather than the screens.
Tests: User-centred problem framing
TechnicalEntry levelProduct Designer
What are a few things you check to make sure a screen works for people using a screen reader or only a keyboard?
Tests: Accessibility
BehaviouralEntry levelProduct Designer
Tell me about a time you got tough feedback on a design. How did you respond?
Tests: Collaboration & critique
TechnicalMid levelProduct Designer
How do you decide on hierarchy, spacing and type on a busy screen? Walk me through a recent example.
Tests: Interaction & visual design
TechnicalMid levelProduct Designer
How do you choose between a quick low fidelity sketch and a detailed interactive prototype?
Tests: Prototyping & tools