Tell me a time when your teammates REJECTED your idea — PM question

Ram Pulipati
3 min readJul 14, 2022

Product Manager Interview question

It's quite common that your ideas will be rejected by your teammates. How will you get the team aligned to your vision, and how will you rally the team behind you to get the vision executed is the challenge that you will have as a PM or TPM.

The developers and other team members should have a conviction about the vision you want to implement. However, sometimes they reject your vision or ideas about the product. Then how would you convince the team?

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Ram Pulipati

10yrs exp as a PM, Dev and Co-founder. Studied, lived & worked in US, Canada & India. Want a FREE PM resume consultation? -> www.linkedin.com/in/janakiramvit.