Interview Questions - Product Manager

Interview Questions - Product Manager

Candidate: _______________                      

Date: ___________________

Instructions:

Once you have saved the interview package to your desktop, you can modify the rating system and question design to reflect your needs and job requirements.

The interview package is designed to allow the interviewer to rank the candidate´s individual answers and give the candidate an overall rating. Interviewers should focus on the required job skills and responsibilities of the position, rather than ranking the candidate based on personal reactions. The scoring system is based on the following:

1 - Poor      2 - Unsatisfactory      3 - Satisfactory      4 - Good       5 - Excellent 

Helpful hints to determining Excellent or Poor answers:

• The candidate should be able to relate their answer back to specific work-related examples.
• The answers should reflect the characteristics and skills you require for the position.
• The candidate should display confidence when responding to questions.
• The interviewer should look for quality answers, not quantity. Long answers do not necessarily equal quality responses.
• Bad comments about previous employers and their business practices do not reflect good answers.

Questions:

Tell me about your previous and current positions and your responsibilities.

Why are you considering leaving?         

1          2          3          4          5

What has been your experience in giving explanations or instructions to another person? Phone or face to face?

What were the results? 

1          2          3          4          5

Please describe the largest scale project you have managed.

What were the scope, objective, budget, timeline and results.

What sources did you use?

1          2          3          4          5

Describe a time when you encountered obstacles with a project.

How did you manage?

1          2          3          4          5

Give me an example of a time where you had to deal with difficult person that you needed their contribution in order to complete a project.

 How you managed the situation?

What were the obstacles?        

1          2          3          4          5

Describe a critical business decision you have had to make at work and the process you went through to come to a decision.           

1          2          3          4          5

Tell me about a time when you faced stress at work that tested your coping skills.

1          2          3          4          5

Give me an example of where there were objections to your recommendations.

How did you handle the objections?

Were you able to turn the objections around?

1          2          3          4          5

Tell me a time when you had to meet a strict deadline or time demand.  

1          2          3          4          5

Tell me about a time when your strategic thinking resulted in profits, or prevented a problem.     

1          2          3          4            5

Overall Rating:  1          2          3          4          5

Comments:

Interviewer:_________________________