Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
Hyderabad, Telangana
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22 Sep 2024
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I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Aug 2023.
3 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
Asked about my workex and projects handled, then asked case study about how would you decide whether or not to launch a OTT service in India, with guestimates around projected cost and revenue
2
Case Study Round
Case study around creating a e-bike rental service for tourists, and how to do GTM to acquire first set of customers
3
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Behavioural questions
- Q2. Why did i leave my previous job and what is it that look forward to in jio
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Suggest feature improvement for increasing engagement of FB Messenger; Suggest an additional revenue stream for the same
2
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. 2 panelists interviewed 2 candidates (1.5 hours) where we were asked a lot about our individual cases especially on the following points: - the initial approach...read more
3
Technical Round (1 Question)
- Q1. 1 panelist who was the head/director of engineering (1 hour). The interview started with questions around my work experience at Samsung. Given my previous role ...read more
4
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. 1 panelist, senior PM (1 hour). Interview started around a case competition, on an area launch of UberEats, in which I had reached the finals.
- Q2. Second half of the interview revolved around more questions on my worked, and a product improvement question on Samsung Pay.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
Discussed a last mile delivery problem and kept pushing me for more ideas
Suggestions:
This round is the most important round as the interviewer tries to gather whether you are a good fit for the role or not. At the same time, Amazon tests candidates on its leadership principles and checks how you react in a fast paced and competitive environment.
I reckon he had something in mind and was looking for it. Most of the people are sent back after this round itself.
2
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. What was my impact in the work and other similar questions were discussed.
- Q2. The interviewer discussed in detail each item - a lot of my friends had this discussion in first round itself. Each and every number of the resume can and might...read more
3
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This round is with a Senior Manager who again wants to understand how and why you should be hired. He asked me a lot of questions on what my understanding of th...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be very professional in your conduct even with the HR team and know your profile thoroughly. Be very confident too!
Also, know that almost no negotiation takes place while signing the FIF so don't wait for
the last round to bring something that you want to discuss.
Also, know that almost no negotiation takes place while signing the FIF so don't wait for
the last round to bring something that you want to discuss.
I applied via Campus Placement
6 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
Case Round where a team of 4-5 people are given a problem and asked to solve for a 1 minute elevator pitch. the time provided was 30 minutes.
This exercise is repeated twice over with a feedback session in between. the firm had provided pre-reads for the round. Knowing the content of the reads was essential to get through the discussions in this
round.
2
Case Study Round
This round was about presenting the case analysis provided to the candidate 2 days prior to the interview
A lot of cross product questioning can be expected in this round. Furthermore, the round involved a multi disciplinary assessment of the product. the panel consisted of 1-2 Product heads and lead from product engineering
3
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. - This was a hard grill round (lasting ~2 hours) were the only focus was solving problems and re-solving them as many times as needed. Depending on the candidat...read more
4
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Why Athena round. Its s short round that lasts 30 minutes or so and its usually conducted by the HR
5
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This round was again a problem approach round conducted on a real life problem in healthcare. Part of the round is also a resume round and fitment round.
6
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This was the last round after the offer.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. The conversation started off with how my day went. We started off discussing whether I use Swiggy or not
- Q2. Once done with design, the next question was about pricing Swiggy Super. How did swiggy come up with Rs. XX for Swiggy Super?
2
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. 2 interviewers( one was just observing or maybe experiencing how to take interviews). He asked - if Swiggy were to optimize its delivery fleet time, what should...read more
3
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. No specific questions - just about the work I did in my previous company, how did I solve product problems, and where do I see myself in 3-5 years.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Round 1- The first round went on for 1.5 hours. The interviewer was very cooperative and understanding. It was more like a conversation. No frameworks were used in this round.
Only prior knowledge about the industry, app design and swiggy as a product helped.Practicing Pricing questions helped in structuring the answer.
Round 2- Subscribe to Ken. Great reads. read company blogs and industry reports.
Understand how the company runs and earns money. Ask questions. Read about competitors (Dunzo/Zomato/etc in this case) and understand how they solve a similar problem (if they are).
Subscribe to Ken.
Only prior knowledge about the industry, app design and swiggy as a product helped.Practicing Pricing questions helped in structuring the answer.
Round 2- Subscribe to Ken. Great reads. read company blogs and industry reports.
Understand how the company runs and earns money. Ask questions. Read about competitors (Dunzo/Zomato/etc in this case) and understand how they solve a similar problem (if they are).
Subscribe to Ken.
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
How's ISB going on so far?
You are thinking of creating a startup, you’ve observed Housing Societies have free badminton courts available and there are kids who are looking to play badminton but do not have access to courts. Can you find a way to create value here?
Have you had any problems dealing with people?
2
Case Study Round
You are a PM at Facebook, you notice that the revenue is falling over a period of 2 weeks. What actions would you take next?
How do go about dealing with a situation when you have to convince your superior or say your product manager about a disagreement that you’ve been having regarding [work project] ?
3
Case Study Round
How would you go about launching Gold as a category on Flipkart? What all factors would you keep in mind while launching it?
4
Technical Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. Describe the architecture for a product that you’ve worked on? What type of replication were you using (MySQL DB)?
- Q2. What is your biggest fear? Is it that your feature will not be prioritized?
- Q3. How would you deal with Tech-Debt as a PM?
I applied via Campus Placement
5 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
About a week prior to Day 1, topic: Messenger's engagement is 4x lower than whatsapp. Suggest features to close the gap)
2
Group Discussion Round
1-1 critique about each other's case (2 people in a group + 1 interviewer), Deep dive discussion into the case with the interviewer, Guesstimates related to the case.
3
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Go back when Swiggy was just being launched, design the restaurant facing module for Swiggy. Draw wireframes and lead me through the features.
- Q2. Other questions: Resume walkthrough
4
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Why Zeta? How would you handle some situation? Explain why you'd be a good fit, etc.,.
- Q2. Product questions: Suggest improvements to Google Maps, if you're a PM at Airbnb, what would be your top 3 metrics that you'd track
5
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Explain why and how you'd fit at zeta?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Practise as much product design as possible, make frameworks but be flexible with them, read about the company. Draw wireframes!
I applied via Campus Placement
5 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (6 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself
- Q2. Which is your favourite app? How will you improve it? Draw mockups
- Q3. Resume based Questions-A question on A/B testing .How I had implemented it? Few questions around the possible flaws in the projects I did at work
- Q4. Why product management?
- Q5. Challenges a PM might have to face.
- Q6. Challenges a PM might have to face.
2
HR Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. How will you handle conflicts with engineering team? How will you negotiate?
- Q2. Long term and short term plans
- Q3. What are the responsibilities of a PM
- Q4. What can you do at Jivox. why should we hire you.Apart from having an edge at the tech front what else could you improve
3
HR Round (6 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself.
- Q2. Why PM?
- Q3. Why did you leave your role as a developer?
- Q4. Why jivox?
- Q5. Biggest challenge at work.
- Q6. Biggest achievement at work.
4
Case Study Round
Any idea on what jivox can do more in terms of expanding their portfolio?
5
HR Round
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. A small Discussion on the case. What feature would I like to add apart from advertising on the publisher space and how to price it?
- Q2. Market Entry: How to take Rajasthani Shoe business from online to offline?
2
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Location Preference
- Q2. Other offers
3
Technical Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Details on previous work experience
- Q2. Market entry of New Energy Bars. Similar to the first interview.
- Q3. Why product management?
- Q4. Why inmobi?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - If you do not have prior coding experience, prepare to be grilled on why do you suddenly want to move into this kind of role. Even though coding is not required for a PM role, it helps to gain traction with developers. Have a good answer ready
Round 1- The duration of the interview was 1 hour.
Round 2- The duration of the interview was 5 mins
Round 3 - This round lasted for 1 hour.
Round 1- The duration of the interview was 1 hour.
Round 2- The duration of the interview was 5 mins
Round 3 - This round lasted for 1 hour.
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Started with work-ex.Tell me about your favourite product and 3 things you'd like to improve
- Q2. 3 things you like and 3 things you'd like to improve
2
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Design a "Pay Later" feature for an e-commerce consumer website.. In depth discussion on features, metrics, trade-offs.
- Q2. On company policies and values and what I did at my startup
3
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. How would you detect fraud reviews as a PM on Zomato. In depth discussion on factors which the PM would consider in the algorithm
4
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. HR round on company policies and values and what I did at my startup.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - First 3 rounds were design related and the final one was HR
Round 1 -The duration of the interview was 45 minutes.
Round 2-The duration of the interview was 90 minutes.
Round 3- The duration of the interview was 60 minutes.
Round 1 -The duration of the interview was 45 minutes.
Round 2-The duration of the interview was 90 minutes.
Round 3- The duration of the interview was 60 minutes.
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