Pinterest Product Manager interview questions

“I went straight into market sizing and user segmentation (students vs teachers vs admins) and it felt like the right move until I realized I hadn't actually argued for or against the opportunity clearly.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to ask why Netflix specifically, since Pinterest is literally a shopping-adjacent product and this felt like a curveball.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I jumped straight to 'more users means more emails sent, so the denominator grew faster than the opens' and the interviewer just kind of waited.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I spent too long on the feature brainstorm and not enough time defining who the actual user was.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The Spotify framing was a little disorienting in a Pinterest interview.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to just say 'put a date picker in onboarding' and move on, which would have been embarrassing.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one is nastier than it looks.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This felt like a Pinterest-flavored question from the start, which I thought would help me but it kind of made me overthink it.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“My first instinct was to go broad and list features, which was probably the wrong move.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Tried to work through it as a product strategy case: distribution, video infrastructure, ad inventory.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Pinterest, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.