Stripe
Sample Questions:
Design FinTech Related or Adjacent
Design a solution to help small-time merchants with chargebacks and disputed payments.
Design an ATM for international terminals at your local airport.
How would you improve Stripe?
API Focused
Assume you're a PM on Google Maps and want to integrate with DoorDash to allow users to order delivery. Design the API.
Favorite Product Twists
What are you 3 favorite products, choose one and how would you improve it
Name your 3 favorite products — pick one. What would you do to improve it? Next, how would you improve it for the elderly?
Pick your favorite website. How would you improve it?
Tell me about a product you love. How would you make it better?
Tell me about a product you use often
General Product Sense
You are the PM of Dominos Pizza, come up with 10 ideas to improve speed E2E from ordering to delivery.
A recent positive and negative experience I’ve had with a product
What products are good but not successful? How would you define successful and good?
What products are successful but not good? How would you define successful and good?
Products you like dislike.
Many people dislike air travel and hate it. Let’s say you were hired to improve the public perception of air travel. You have limited budget ($10M) and have 1yr. How would you solve this problem?
Improve the checkout experience for Airbnb
How would you improve the NYC transit system?
Design an app for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)
Design a washer and dryer
Execution
Walk me through how Apple Pay works.
Stripe Checkout - merchants are complaining that by requiring billing details we are adding friction and hurting conversion. What would you do?
Imagine you were the PM for Twitters tweet limit from 140-280 or at FB reactions. What systems and teams will get impacted by this change?
Describe some success metrics for Stripe Atlas.
Strategy/Execution
You’re the PM responsible for reactions at Facebook. How would I launch? Who would I talk to?
Pretend you’re a PM at Google Maps. Your objective is to increase customer engagement with SMBs — what do you do? Next, how would you get SMBs to implement your solution?
We are X company our goals are Y. What is your approach?
Why do so many users like using FB so much? Frame answers from a user lens
If you were a VC, would you be more bullish on AR or VR?
Behavioral
Tell me about a past project that wasn't doing that well but then turned around. What did you do to make the turnaround possible? What did you learn?
Tell me about a time when you misunderstood the source of a problem. How did you figure out the true cause of the problem?
