 Tiktok is hiring a large number of product managers, designers and engineers working for them. It's one of the largest tier one companies, continuous hire people throughout the entire layoff seasons. And this is definitely the best company for you to jumpstart your career right away and also pay even higher than product managers in fan companies right now. However, the interview questions of Tiktok is extremely difficult. And even the first round interview with the recruiter, they're going to ask you plus sense, parametric, product design questions is really difficult. Therefore, you must use the right methodology, right framework to nail all the upcoming challenging interview questions of Tiktok. In this video, I'm going to cover the top 20 interview questions on Tiktok and the right framework for you to nail those interviews. Stay until the end of this video, where I share with you the bonus tip that's only applicable for Tiktok product manager interviews. And most people lost their job offer just because they made these critical mistakes. Hey guys, this is Dr. Nancy Lee, a director of product and featured in Forbes. I've helped 100 people land their dream PM job offer in fan companies in New England startup and continue to get promoted as a product leader. In this channel, we talk about tech trends and free product management training. Like and subscribe and check the new video every Tuesday. I have helped so many students landing their dream PM job offer in Tiktok. And we also refer students to our partners in Tiktok as well. So we know everything inside out regarding how you're able to quickly nail your job offer in Tiktok. In my last video, we're interviewing my student Amy talking about her journey from CPA to product manager in Tiktok. Make sure to check out this video right here. The first type of interview questions at Tiktok is behavioral interview questions. For example, why Tiktok? Why Tiktok live? Why Tiktok shopping? Question number two, what's your strengths and weakness? Question number three, tell me about yourself. This is a mass asked interview questions in all type of companies out there. Question number four, what's your past experience in ABCD company? Question number five, tell me a time when you felt those are typical behavioral and leadership interview questions. But lots of people, if you're not able to pass the first round interview at Tiktok, it's likely you felt those behavioral interview questions. And I invented a unique framework called Grail framework to tackle those interview questions to make it sure and concise. Grail framework stands for get to the point, rationale, actions, impact and learning. I gave you a specific sample answers of Grail framework in this video where I use tell me a time when you felt as an example, make sure to check out the detailed descriptions over there. And I have another sample answer regarding tell me about yourself in 30 seconds. Make sure to check out this video right here as well. I'm also going to link them in the description of this video. The interview questions start get even harder from now on. The second type of interview questions at Tiktok is product management, knowledge, deep dive question. Those question will also be asked in the first round interview with a recruiter. For example, question number six, if you are a product manager of live shopping product at Tiktok, how would you lead the project? What features would you add and walk me through your thought process? This type of interview questions immediately become very challenging because you need to tell them about the end to employment management life cycle skills and process and use the creative thinking to think about what specific innovative features you can add to Tiktok live. Question number seven, do you think Instagram live is a successful product? And why? Question number eight, compare product functions among Tiktok, Snapchat and Instagram. Those kind of questions become extremely hard because not only you need to know Tiktok, you also need to know the competitor product. And this is also the typical first round interview within Tiktok. And they would really want to see if you really love Tiktok and if you know the entire market landscape of Tiktok and Tiktok competitors and do side-by-side comparisons. And that's how you must start to use different kind of product and really think about how you are a product manager at Tiktok before you even walk into any interview. I'm going to film a separate video dive deeper regarding product evaluation comparison. Make sure to subscribe channel hit the bell button so the notified once a new video is uploaded on YouTube. The third type of interview questions is product design type of question. Now product design is very typical in all type of interview brands within tier one companies or tier two companies, all type of companies. And in Tiktok, they ask you something very specific related to their product. For example, question number nine, how would you design Tiktok for an elder audience? Question number 10, how would you improve Tiktok? Question number 11, what's your favorite product and how would you improve it? When you answer the design and the favorite product questions, you need to use two different framework. For example, for what's your favorite product, you must dive deeper into different kind of customer segmentation. Before you talk about yourself, what's your favorite product? Because we represent one group of customer segmentation. And when you talk about why it's a favorite product, you must address specific pain point of view who represent this customer segmentation. You can see my sample answer right here where I use crypto product as an example to show you what the best answer you can say in an interview within two minutes. In terms of design questions, such as design Tiktok for elderly audience, this type of question is very critical for everybody to use the modified circles framework. Why do I emphasize on modified? Because most of candidates, they make the fatal mistakes. Whenever they go into any job interviews, they only talk about very small customer segmentation without seeming big scope of thinking. And the frequency makes this mistake to ask interviewer to pick the customer segmentation for you by asking who exactly you want to design it for? How old is elderly audience? Can you define this for me? And all those questions are wrong, clarifying questions to ask at the very beginning because you're literally making the scope of thinking much smaller. And there is the top 10 clarifying questions you should ask at the beginning of any product design interview questions. You should go to this website right here and download it so that you know what the right question to ask in any type of product design interview questions. And I use the modified circles framework to answer designer Uber app for people with disabilities. You should totally check out this free video right here where I gave you the demo of the end to end six steps process to break down any kind of comprehensive product design interview questions. The fourth type of interview question the Tiktok is product metrics and execution interview questions. For example, question 12, what's the success metrics of your current project? Question number 13, as a product manager at Tiktok, how would you know if this product is good or bad? Question number 14, how would you embed new technology to Tiktok live shopping? Regarding those product metrics interview questions, I highly recommend you guys to use my computer science PhD framework invented by me, Duncan and CD. So what this stands for is you must start with why and mission of this company and customer segmentation CS. And then PhD stands for prioritize metrics, which means your newer star metrics and product health metrics and the de-risk metrics. And all those metrics are very critical for you to give a very comprehensive answer to those metrics and define success and different kind of goals questions. I filmed a very in-depth training using example of design success metrics of Facebook event product in the free training right here. Make sure to watch this video and learn exactly how you apply the my computer science PhD framework. Question number 15, you are the PM for Tiktok's live shopping. The engagement of US audience dropped significantly in the past two months. What would you do? This type of interview question is actually extremely difficult because of problem solving. And this also the typical real life experience what you're facing at the Tiktok as well because the solving problems every single day. Now the best framework to solve this problem is CPTE framework. So C stands for customers, P stands for product, T stands for technology, E stands for external factors. You need to use those four elements to evaluate what could go wrong that leading to significant job within two months for Tiktok live engagement. I'm going to film a separate video. I give you a walkthrough of the live example of applying CPTE framework in upcoming video sequence. Make sure to subscribe to channel and you will be notified once a new video will be uploaded in near future. The fifth type of interview question on Tiktok is estimation questions. Question number 16, how would you estimate the user size of your past product? Question number 17, how many creators are there in Tiktok US? When you work on the estimation questions, it's very important you understand there are two ways to solve this estimation questions. One is top-down and the other one is bottom-up. Top-down means you estimate the total number of people, a percentage can be a creator and percentage of them could be on Tiktok and percentage of them is going to be active on Tiktok. So if from big all the way becomes smaller, that's top-down. Bottoms-ups approach means you have an equation where you calculate each individual element of things goes into Tiktok creators and you add them up into a total equation. That's like solving a math problem. I already gave you more examples regarding different kind of estimation questions and how would you solve them in this video right here. Make sure to check it out in-depth right here. The sixth type of interview question is part of strategy question. For example, question number 18, what's the new technology you're interested in and feel like it has a great future? Most people think this question is quite easy. Of course everyone is going to say AI and however you cannot just say AI you really need to connect AI with Tiktok or you can say VR. You need to connect VR into Tiktok's mission and audience. I invented a unique framework called Gucci framework where it has been currently used by even existing product managers in Tiktok and to answer any part of strategy interview questions and use it in real life strategy thinking as well. So Gucci's framework stands for goals and mission, unmet customer needs, customer segmentation, competition and integrated ecosystem. With this specific framework you will know what type of new technology is very trendy and how it's going to impact Tiktok and think about the entire marketplace and landscape and competitive environment. I broke down the Gucci framework in real-life case studies in this video right here. Make sure to check it out. I'm also going to link it in the description of this video as well. The last type of interview question at Tiktok is culture fit question. This is quite euthic for Tiktok. For example, question number 19, how would you handle stress? Question number 20, tell me your experience. You have multitask. These are more than just behavioral interview questions. You really need to understand why Tiktok asks you those interview questions because the real-life environment working for Tiktok is very stressful and frequently product managers in Tiktok are going to work on multiple important products at the same time, so they are multitasking at the same time. So during the interview, if you're able to show them examples of you working in a high-stress environment and still being able to deeper amazing results, you're able to learn amazing offers and also getting paid significantly higher than average industry salary and even higher than fan company salary as well. Now here comes a very important bonus tip. Tiktok is a Chinese-owned company. When you work for Tiktok, they frequently use Chinese plus English during the daily operations. But that doesn't mean that pure American-speaking people cannot work for Tiktok. In my last podcast, we had interviews that had a product at Tiktok and Kim, he's American, he's also Korean, he speaks zero Chinese at all, but he had a product at Tiktok. So Chinese language is not required. However, if for any reason during the interview, the hiring manager or recruiter speaks Chinese with you during the interview, you must be able to answer in Chinese as well. Lots of people answer Chinese questions in English that make them losing those job offers. So it's very critical you know what the company culture looks like. If you're preparing for any parliamentary interviews out there, I strongly recommend you to use the latest interview questions database to prepare for your upcoming interviews. And you should go to this website and download all the top 50 parliamentary interview questions database. And those database has been used by fan companies and non-fan companies for all the different kind of tech companies out there. I'm going to link it in the description of this video as well. And make sure to check out my some point answer to what your favorite product. There's a mass ask interview questions in all type of parliamentary interviews and out there. I want all of you guys to be successful in your upcoming interview. This is Dr. Nancy Lee from PM Accelerator.io. Like and subscribe. I'm gonna see you in the next video right here.