Technical practice
How would you run a discovery workshop to turn a client's initial request into product requirements?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Explain how you would uncover user needs, test assumptions and distinguish the requested solution from the underlying problem. Describe how you would document decisions and open questions for client stakeholders.
How would you use story mapping to scope and prioritise a backlog across a client project?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Show how user journeys inform a useful first release, then weigh user value, dependencies and delivery constraints. Explain how you would make exclusions and priority changes visible.
How would you decide whether an AI or LLM approach fits a proposed use case?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Discuss the capability needed, likely limitations and whether a simpler approach would meet the user need. Explain how you would make uncertainty and trade-offs clear before committing to delivery.
What would you put in a PRD and acceptance criteria for an AI-enabled feature?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Cover the user problem, scope, expected behaviour, constraints and measurable outcomes. Explain how acceptance criteria would help engineers handle both expected results and cases where an AI response is unsuitable.
How would you define meaningful success metrics for a product launch?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Tie measures to the intended user and client outcome rather than activity or vanity metrics. Describe what you would track after launch and what finding would prompt a product decision.
How would you use analytics when a shipped feature misses its success target?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Describe how you would check the data, segment usage where useful and compare quantitative signals with user research. Explain how you would decide whether to iterate, investigate further or change direction.
How would you evaluate the quality of an LLM feature over time?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: As preparation for the posting's optional AI evaluation and LLMOps familiarity, discuss representative test cases, quality criteria and how you would investigate regressions. Keep the answer at product-management level unless drawing on relevant technical experience.
How would you assess scope creep, technical debt and timeline risk during delivery?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Explain how you would surface each risk early and compare the consequences of deferring work, reducing scope or changing a timeline. Show how you would communicate a decision and its effect on the intended outcome.
How would you participate in an API or architecture discussion as a product manager?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: This is preparation for a nice-to-have technical background, not a stated requirement to design an architecture. Explain how you would clarify dependencies and constraints with engineers, then translate their implications into product choices.
How would you use sprint reviews and client demos to improve a product?
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Describe how you would demonstrate progress against agreed requirements and gather specific feedback. Explain how you would separate a newly discovered need from a request that should not displace current priorities.
Behavioural practice
Tell me about a time you challenged an important product assumption.
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Give the situation, the evidence you used and the action you took despite disagreement. Close with the result and what it taught you about making accountable product decisions.
Describe a time engineering, design and a client disagreed on a delivery decision.
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Set out the situation and each group's concern, then explain how you facilitated a decision and communicated the trade-off. State the result without implying that every stakeholder agreed.
Tell me about a time you managed competing priorities across concurrent projects.
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Describe the situation, how you assessed urgency and impact, and what you changed or delegated to protect quality. Give the result for the affected projects.
Describe a time a client request threatened the agreed scope or timeline.
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Explain the situation and the action you took to clarify value, effort and delivery risk. State the resulting scope or timeline decision and how you communicated it.
Tell me about a retrospective that led you to change how a team worked.
What to coverSuggested answer focus: Identify the delivery issue and your role in helping the team examine it. Describe the change made and the observable result, including what you would do differently next time.