Vice president product Interview Questions
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Vice President Product interview questions shared by candidates
What would you do to increase retention?
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I'd do surveys and phone calls to find out why customers are giving up.
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The key in these questions is to cover the fundamentals, and be ready for the back-and-forth with the interviewer. Might be worth doing a mock interview with one of the Springboard or ex-Springboard Vice President of Product experts on Prepfully? They give real-world practice and guidance, which is pretty helpful. prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
Have you ever been in a startup who has to cross the chasm?
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Yes, but you don't ask candidates how they might cross it. The team who knows the business must solve that problem and hire to do it, not hire people to do it. Less
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In these sorts of interviews you really need to drill down and understand what the interviewer is looking for. A good way to simulate a real interview experience is to do a mock with one of the Springboard Vice President of Product experts on Prepfully, rated super strongly on TrustPilot... prepfully.com/practice-interviews Less
Will you be able to manage multiple off shore teams?
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On the condition that a team is put in place to manage
What is the biggest volatility risk for a cliquet?
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Price of the cliquet, combination of forward start options, is dependent on the asset price at the forward date. This means we don't know the strike price hence volatility. These are known on the forward, kick-in, date. The trader exposes forward skew so slope and convexity of the skew have a significant effect on pricing. We know that IV of far date option is almos flat because skewness and kurtosis both decay with maturity. The important thing here is that the trader has to account the effective skew time that the option effectively lives. Less
The usual - tell me about yourself, do you have certifications, do you have what it takes to work in a global distributed environment, etc.
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explained about myself clearly but they keep asking the same questions in a different formats and I was consistent in letting them know that my answers didn't change. For rest of the questions, of course, I answered positively hence I got the assignment. Less
Interesting observation: Nearly all interviewers mentioned that "You can't have an ego here" and that decisions are made by consensus.
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When I asked who makes final decisions, one of the interviewers indicated that they wish someone had final decision-making authority because he would often leave meetings thinking "We didn't really close the loop on the purpose of this meeting." Less
