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Gayle Laakmann,McDowell

Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology

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  • Yana Manukhinahas quoted5 years ago
    If you ask interviewers what they’re looking for in PM candidates, they’ll usually say that they are looking for smart people who get stuff done.
  • Patricia Christianahas quoted3 years ago
    take broad ideas and make them tangible and actionable.
  • Patricia Christianahas quoted3 years ago
    Teams follow PMs when they’re convinced that their goals align and that the PM will help them better achieve their goals.
  • Риза Кулмырзаhas quoted5 years ago
    One reason product management is such an appealing career is you get to sit at the intersection of technology, business, and design. You get to wear many hats and learn multiple points of view
  • Arcady Chugunovhas quoted6 years ago
    You can also think about these goals at a higher level. You can think about not only what you do with a product, but why you do it. What is the underlying motivation? For example, the underlying motivation for the keychain might be independence.
  • Дмитрий Волчковhas quoted2 years ago
    One online product.
    One physical “offline” product. Interviewers love to try to “stump” candidates by asking them to assess a physical product.
    One product you purchased recently.
    Your “favorite” product or website.
    A product you think is well designed.
    The company or team’s product.
  • Artem Mazurchuckhas quoted2 years ago
    always expectations for time/benefit trade-offs with any feature. A lot of these calls end up being forced during a production cycle, and the product manager has to be a couple steps ahead of potential issues to ensure that the final product strikes the right balance of time to market and success in the market.
    Analytics – in the end, the team largely depends on the product manager to have run the numbers, and have the detail on what pieces of the feature are critical to hitting the goals for the feature. They also expect the product manager to have a deep understanding of the performance of existing features (and competitor features), if any.
  • Artem Mazurchuckhas quoted2 years ago
    Product specification – the necessary level of detail to ensure clarity about what the team is building.
    Edge case decisions – very often, unexpected and complicated edge cases come up. Typically, the product manager is on the line to quickly triage those decisions for potentially ramifications to other parts of the product.
    Project management – there are
  • Artem Mazurchuckhas quoted2 years ago
    uite simply, it’s the product manager’s job to articulate two simple things:

    What game are we playing?
    How do we keep score?
  • Artem Mazurchuckhas quoted2 years ago
    Well, let me first think a bit about what the market looks like right now, including the company, competition, customers, and general landscape.
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