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English speaking practice for Product Manager interview questions
Level B1-B2
•Author: Anna K.
Practice PM interview English for product sense, prioritization, trade-offs, and stakeholder alignment with structured sample answers.
What you’ll practice
Answer PM interview prompts with a clear structure: context, decision criteria, trade-off, and outcome.
Questions
- How do you prioritize roadmap items when every stakeholder says their request is urgent?
- Tell me about a product decision you reversed after user feedback.
- How do you define success before launch?
- What trade-off did you make between speed and quality?
Useful phrases
- “I prioritized by user impact, business value, and engineering effort.”
- “My initial assumption was…, but user interviews showed…”
- “The key trade-off was…, and we accepted it because…”
Mini role-play
Interviewer: “How do you prioritize conflicting requests?” You: “I align on company goals first, then score options by impact and effort. I also highlight dependencies and risk.”
FAQ
What structure works best for PM answers?
Use: problem, options, decision criteria, decision, result.
How long should one answer be?
45-75 seconds, then add detail if prompted.
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