Product / Decision-Making Onsite Case Prompts

Context: You are a product manager candidate addressing a mix of strategy, data, design, and execution prompts. For each, state assumptions, structure your approach, and justify trade-offs.

1) Strategic & Business Analysis

1. Strategic Acquisition Evaluation: Should Google acquire iRobot, the maker of Roomba?

2) Data-Driven Decision Making

2. Share a past example where you leveraged large-scale experiments and big-data analysis to inform a critical product decision.

3) Product Design & User Experience

3. User-Centric Hardware Design: Design a bookshelf specifically for young children.

4) End-to-End Product & Architecture Design

4. Create a dog-walking marketplace app.

5) Technical Leadership & Execution

5. Showcasing Technical Leadership: Describe the most technically complex project you have led and why you are proud of it.
6. Real-Time Data Product Improvement: For Google Maps' real-time traffic layer, what data should be collected, and how would you enhance accuracy and latency?

6) Analytics & Performance Management

7. Live-Streaming Health Metrics: Which core metrics would you track to evaluate the health and growth of Facebook Live?
8. Rapid Engagement Triage: Messenger's daily engagement drops sharply overnight—how would you debug the issue and prioritize next steps?

7) Learning & Growth

9. Learning from Failure: Describe the most memorable product failure you have experienced, what went wrong, and what you learned.