Workday interview questions
82 questions for Workday: 31 reported at Workday and 51 typical for the role, with the role each was found under.
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- Tell me about yourself.
- What is an idea you have used in your career to add value to an organization?
- What part of this role feels exciting and which parts less?
- Why do you want to join this team at Workday?
- Design a messaging platform.
- Explain product strategy in your previous jobs?
- How do you align a team and stakeholders on goals, priorities, and success criteria before execution starts?
- How do you align architecture, engineering, and software teams during delivery while managing dependencies, risks, and execution trade-offs?
- How do you benchmark competitors and use insights to guide product strategy?
- How do you collaborate with engineering/design/business at scale?
- How do you define the core metrics for a new product launch, from early adoption and activation to retention and long-term value?
- How do you handle a team with diverse backgrounds?
- How would you prioritize features in the next release for this product?
- Tell me about a challenge you faced and how you overcame it.
- Tell me about a project you worked on.
- Tell me about the accomplishment you are most proud of.
- Tell me about the most challenging situation you faced in your career and how you handled it.
- Walk me through the product lifecycle. How do you manage expectations of various stakeholders?
- Walk me through your structured approach for designing a new feature in an existing product, from user need to MVP and success criteria.
- What is your approach for making team work inclusive of different customer needs?
- What is your philosophy of Product Management?
- What metrics do you use to measure success of your products? Tell me about one you led.
- You have to design a new feature for an enterprise HR product: what's your roadmap, metrics, trade-offs?
- An approval keeps landing on the wrong person's inbox. No org change happened. Talk me through your afternoon.
- Give a presentation on a topic such as 'why Workday' or choose from 'AI, Cloud, or Analytics' and create a presentation on why Workday is best, covering how Workday addresses problems and its unique value.
- Walk me through how you learned Workday, and who signed off on your first solo configuration.
- Can you explain your experience with Agile methodologies?
- Describe a time when you had to gather user feedback for a product.
- How do you prioritize features for a product roadmap?
- Tell us about a product you managed from conception to launch.
- Walk me through the product lifecycle.
- Could you tell me about the ideal way(s) you prefer to work with a PM?
- How do you handle API feature deprecation?
- How do you make good estimates for timelines for delivering features?
- How do you manage deprecations and migrations so teams aren't disrupted?
- If you need to choose a single north star metric, what would it be for an API product?
- Tell me about a time you had to say no to a senior stakeholder's request for the platform. How did you handle it?
- Tell me about the last product you worked on that excited you and why?
- What makes a great developer experience, and how have you improved DX in the past?
- What's a product or feature you worked on that you felt could have been done differently?
- What's your favorite developer onboarding? Why is it your favorite?
- Why is API versioning important?
- Can you describe a time when you had to adapt to a sudden change at work?
- Can you describe how you handled a disagreement with a colleague or manager?
- Can you tell me about a project you led and how that project concluded?
- Describe a time when you helped a team achieve a difficult task?
- Give me an example about a problem you observed and how you solved it.
- Talk us through a situation where you were successful.
- Tell me about a time you were in a high-pressure situation. How did you get through it?
- Tell us about a situation where it was important that you worked as part of a team.
- What would be the main rewards you feel that you would get from this role?
- Can you explain the software development lifecycle (SDLC)?
- Describe a challenging technical problem you faced and how you resolved it.
- Describe how you would build a roadmap when you have competing stakeholder priorities.
- Design a notification system for our product.
- Design a system to track review abuse on Amazon.
- Engineering wants a quarter of platform work. Sales wants features. What do you do?
- Explain your approach to product discovery with engineers and designers.
- How do you define a 'platform' product, and how is the Platform PM role different from a feature PM?
- How do you define success metrics for a new feature?
- How do you evaluate technical debt vs. new features?
- How do you handle conflicts between engineering and business teams?
- How do you handle data privacy and security considerations in product design?
- How do you measure API performance and reliability features you ship?
- How do you prioritize features in a product backlog?
- How do you prioritize tech debt?
- How would you approach migrating users from System A to System B?
- How would you build TinyURL?
- How would you convey insights and the methods you used to a non-technical audience?
- If you had to choose between building a capability in-house or buying a third-party service, how would you decide in a resource-constrained startup?
- Tell me about a technical challenge you overcame.
- Tell me about a time when you disagreed with Engineering.
- Tell me about a time you influenced API design or data model.
- Tell me about a time you shipped an API that required careful versioning or backward compatibility.
- Walk me through how you'd design an internal developer platform feature.
- Walk me through your process for building a platform roadmap when multiple product teams have competing priorities.
- We can ship fast with known reliability risk—how do you decide?
- What happens when you navigate to a website?
- What is an API, and how does it work?
- What is your process for writing product requirements and specs for a technical team?
- What role does data play in your product management process?
- Which metrics do you consider the north stars for a platform, and how do you instrument them?
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