Top Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Interview Questions

Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"See full answer

Pramod V. - "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"See full answer

Musa G. - "Depends on the kind of goals they are trying to pursue. I would clarify with the interviewer. . if you work for say a fintech, and are trying to create say a real-estate app with company resources - no go . if you want to write a book on management say while being an EM, then there's some wiggle room here. As long as you get the book approved by your IP team, should be ok . if you want to work on a hackathon project on something tangentially related to your team, still ok as long as the concept"See full answer

Sabari S. - "01. Mission and Vision (Talk to the CEO /Founder if its a startup) The founding story? Why do you exist? 02. Know Your Product (Existing training material, web content) Go through Product Demo, Sales Calls, Learn to Demo the product, Enablement Materials, Pitches, etc. Review website and all available content created 03. Know your competitors (Create a central document that gives edit rights to the sales teams to add/modify suggestions) Start with your direct 5 competito"See full answer

Jr H. - "for one time i was working as a receptionist in a hotel and one of the rooms that the customer needed was not available but rather we had diffrent room with the same quality i had to convince the customer to use the room we had and i would personally transfer him to the room he desires when its available"See full answer