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Stripe

Wendy-Lynn

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?