Technical PM Interview Questions
Technical questions assess your ability to work with engineering teams and understand technical constraints. While you don't need to code, you should understand system design, APIs, and technical trade-offs.
Pro Tips for Technical PM
- ✓Understand basic system design concepts
- ✓Know how to read and discuss APIs
- ✓Be ready to discuss technical trade-offs
- ✓Show empathy for engineering complexity
Practice Questions
Design an algorithm that computes a similarity score between two users' watch histories
Design a system to calculate the similarity between two users based on their viewing habits and explain how you would validate its effectiveness.
Design an algorithm to automatically generate subtitles for a movie.
Design an algorithm that automatically generates subtitles for movies based on dialogue and context.
Redesign Netflix's recommendation algorithm.
Propose improvements to Netflix’s recommendation algorithm to enhance content discovery and user satisfaction.
Explain Airbnb’s business model simply
Explain Airbnb’s business model to a five‑year‑old.
Explain what happens when you type a URL
What happens when you type in www.google.com and hit enter?
Compare SQL and NoSQL databases
What’s the difference between SQL and NoSQL? When would you use one over the other?
Algorithm to predict users’ future invested assets
Design an algorithm that predicts how much money a given user will have invested in Robinhood (i.e. the total value of all their financial holdings on the app) one year from now.
Implementing max-heaps and min-heaps
How would you implement a max-heap? How would that differ from a min-heap?
Explaining and implementing pub-sub architecture
How does a “pub‑sub” architecture work? How would you implement it?
Explaining options trading to a child
How would you explain options trading to a 5-year-old?
Explaining Robinhood’s revenue model
How does Robinhood make money?
Explaining crypto investment to a beginner
Explain to my grandma why she should invest in crypto and how she should get started.
Diagnosing an 80% monetization drop in a streaming platform
You are the PM of a video streaming platform. You log in one day and notice that monetization metrics have dropped by 80% overnight. What would you do?
Collaborative Filtering for a 5-Year-Old
Explain collaborative filtering to a five-year-old.
SQL vs NoSQL
Teach me about SQL versus NoSQL databases. In which situations should I pick either one?
About Technical PM Interview Questions
Practice technical interview questions for PM interviews. Prepare for system design, API discussions, and technical trade-off 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.