Behavioral questions assess your past experiences and soft skills. Companies like Amazon heavily emphasize behavioral questions with their Leadership Principles. Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result) to structure your answers.
Explain your motivation for wanting to work at Netflix, focusing on its unique culture and values.
Explain how you will adapt to Netflix’s unique culture, which emphasizes freedom and responsibility.
Tell me about a time when you had to keep your engineering team motivated despite low morale.
Tell me about a time when your project almost got derailed. What caused it? How did you right the ship?
Name two of your weaknesses and what you’re doing to overcome them.
What’s something creative you’ve done in the last month?
Tell me about a time when you relied on another team or person, but they didn’t think your project was very important. How did you get past this roadblock?
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with conflict within your team.
Why do you want to work at Airbnb?
Tell me about a time when you had to ship a product before it was ready, or when you knew there were major problems with it. What was your reaction?
What do you stand for? What’s one word that sums up your value system?
Tell me about a time you failed. What did you learn from the experience?
Tell me about a time when you had to cover for another role (e.g. do engineering work because there were no engineers available). What difficulties did you face?
What is your favorite product. Imagine you are the VP of the product. How would you structure your organization (engineering, product and other verticals)
Tell me about a time when you worked side-by-side with another PM. How did you divide the responsibilities up?
Tell me about a time when you disagreed with a colleague on a key issue. How did you resolve it?
Tell me about a time when you had to work with a difficult coworker. What did you do?
What does Robinhood’s mission mean to you? How do you see yourself fitting into it?
What’s your PM superpower?
What are your career goals? How can working at Robinhood help you achieve them?
How would you rate yourself (out of 10 points) along the following axes: UI/UX, engineering, vision, process, and analysis?
Where do you see yourself in 3 years? How about 5?
Tell me about a time when you were surprised at work.
Tell me about a leadership experience you’ve had outside of work.
Describe the role and responsibilities of a product manager at Meta.
What is the difference between a decent, good, and great product manager?
What is your proudest product achievement?
Tell me about a time you implemented a creative hack to solve a problem.
Describe a failure you’ve experienced and what you learned from it.
Tell me about an end-to-end project you led.
Share a time when you pitched in outside your role to help your team.
Describe a project where you had to meet a deadline with a very restricted timeline.
Tell me about a time you made a decision without having full data.
Describe a situation where you influenced others without formal authority.
Describe a time when you had to translate between cross-functional teams (e.g., engineering and design).
Tell me about a time you managed an underperforming teammate or partner.
Share an example of when you helped a colleague beyond your responsibilities.
Describe how you responded to negative feedback.
Tell me about a disagreement you had with an engineer and how you resolved it.
Describe a time you persuaded cross-functional partners to support your idea.
Describe a situation where you received negative feedback and how you processed it.
Tell me about a time you had to give negative feedback.
Describe a conflict with a team member and how you resolved it.
How have Meta products influenced your life?
Tell me about a time when you realized you lacked a key skill and worked to acquire it.
What about Meta’s mission appeals to you? Why do you want to come work here?
What traits make someone a great product manager? Rate yourself on these traits and explain why.
What’s a product management skill you struggle with? What have you done to improve on that?
Tell me about a time when user needs or social value came in conflict with business objectives. How did you navigate the tension?
Why do you want to work for Meta?
Tell me about your greatest strength and greatest weakness.
What skills do you need to develop further to succeed as a product manager at Meta?
Describe a time when you disagreed with your manager and how you handled it.
What key skills will you need to acquire to achieve your long-term career goals?
Describe a situation where you balanced the needs of multiple stakeholders.
What motivates you to build products for billions of users?
How would you describe Meta’s culture, and how do you see yourself contributing to it?
What do you think is the most challenging aspect of Meta’s mission, and how would you address it?
Tell me about a time you failed. What would you have done differently?
Tell me about a time when you led a project end-toend.
Tell me about a time when you had to serve as a translator between engineering and other crossfunctional groups. What was the hardest thing to translate?
Tell me about a time when you had a miscommunication with a customer, client, or other external stakeholder. What happened? How did you resolve it? What would you do differently next time?
How do you practice mindfulness in and out of work?
Tell me about a time when you had to use data to support an argument. How did you present that data? What pushback did you get?
Tell me about a time when you had to disagree and commit. In other words, a time when your proposal was unsuccessful and you had to commit to someone else’s idea.
If you had to pick just 3 Leadership Principles to teach to new Amazon PMs, which would you pick, and why?
Why do you want to be a PM or PMT? How is this the best way to meet your goals?
Tell me about a time when you applied Amazon’s Leadership Principles to your own daily life.
If you had to add a new Leadership Principle, what would it be? If you had to remove one, which would you pick?
What are Amazon’s 2 newest Leadership Principles? What would you do to help further those goals?
Tell me about a time when you came up with an innovative solution.
Tell me about a time when you had to deliver a project under a tight timeline. What sacrifices did you have to make? How did it impact the final deliverable? [Deliver Results]
Tell me about a time when you did an indepth analysis to understand and solve a problem. How did you know you were focusing on the right factors? What was the outcome? [Dive Deep]
What’s the hardest part of product management ? What’s the most important part?
What do you enjoy about your current job? What would you change?
Tell me about a time when you had a miscommunication with a customer, client, or other external stakeholder. What happened? How did you resolve it? What would you do differently next time?
How do you practice mindfulness in and out of work?
Imagine you're building a team from scratch. How would you ensure you're building a team that reflects the diversity of your users? How do you think this would help you build a better product?
What would you do if your BizDev partner overpromised what your product could do to a client or customer?
Tell me about a time when your team was underperforming or had low morale. What did you do to remedy the situation?
Imagine you’re part of a product review and the other side doesn’t want to compromise (e.g. you disagree with a certain design decision, but the other team won’t budge). How would you resolve the conflict? What factors would you consider when crafting your strategy?
What’s a product strategy you’ve worked on that didn’t go well? What did you learn from it?
Imagine you're managing a team and were just told that the deadline for a big project has just been moved up by a month. Walk me through how you'd communicate this with the team and ensure that the project is completed successfully and on time.
Tell me about a time when your project team started losing focus. What were some of the behaviors that contributed to the loss of focus? What did you do to address it? What would you do to avoid losing focus next time?
Imagine you worked at a company that had a problematic culture (e.g. teammates who didn’t get along). What steps would you take to change that? What can you as an individual do to make the work environment more inclusive?
If I asked your manager how you could better round out your skill set for the needs of your current role, what do you think they'd say? How would you address their suggestions?
Tell me about a behavior of yours that you successfully changed in the last year. How did you learn it was a problem in the first place?
Practice behavioral interview questions for PM interviews. Prepare STAR responses for leadership, conflict resolution, and teamwork questions. Practice these questions to prepare for PM interviews at Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and other top tech companies. Each question includes expert answers verified by FAANG product managers and community solutions.