Product Manager Jobs at Quora

Quora PM interview guide

Quora hires product managers through a fast, product-sense-heavy loop that leans hard on "how would you improve Quora itself," metrics fluency, and cross-functional fit, since non-product interviewers (data science, sales, design, engineering) also weigh in. Expect product improvement, design, strategy/monetization, content-recommendation, and behavioral collaboration questions, with a strong emphasis on data-driven decision-making and A/B testing.

The interview process

1. Recruiter phone screen. A 30 to 45 minute exploratory call covering your background, experience, and motivation for Quora. Candidates report the overall process moves quickly, sometimes from application to decision within roughly a week, though hiring can also take a few weeks end to end.
2. Product / hiring-manager screen. An initial product-focused conversation (often ~30 to 45 minutes) probing your product thinking and how you reason about Quora as a product. Be ready to talk concretely about what you would improve and how you would measure it.
3. Onsite loop (multiple rounds). Candidates report an onsite of around 7 rounds, each ~30 to 45 minutes, with a deliberately cross-functional panel: two product managers, two data scientists, plus sales, design, and engineering interviewers. Non-product interviewers gauge how you would collaborate with their function, not just your PM skills.
4. Question mix across rounds. Rounds span product sense / improvement, product design, product strategy and metrics, plus behavioral collaboration. Expect hypothetical scenarios tied to the product area you are interviewing for, some requiring basic math and data interpretation. The recurring theme is improving Quora as a product, with heavy emphasis on metrics and A/B testing to justify decisions.
5. Decision. A debrief across the cross-functional panel feeds the final decision, which candidates report can come back quickly. The interview is rated moderate in difficulty (about 3.3 out of 5 by Product Manager applicants on Glassdoor), with a majority reporting a positive experience.

Likely PM interview questions

1. How would you improve the Quora website, and what would be your strategy to engage more users?Product sense
2. How would you monetize Quora?Strategy
3. Design a question-and-answer website like Quora.Product sense