Product manager interview process

Take Home Assignment

Examples

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Focused on more senior PM types. Source: https://twitter.com/ibscribe/status/1500002593505886209

• “walk me through an instance of you disagreeing and committing with an executive or peer on what direction to take your product in”
  • if you’ve ever disagreed and committed
  • if you’ve dealt with executive pressure
  • if you can connect strategy <-> tactics
  • if you focus on being right or rigorous
  • if you can remember how it netted out
• “walk me through a product trade-off where the data in your hands vs the intuition in your head didn’t jive, and how you made sense of it”
  • what level of trade-offs you have made
  • if you use data and to what degree
  • do you over-rely on data to guide
  • how you build / refine product instinct
  • if you follow curiosity or index on delivery
• “walk me through a contentious product decision that you helped navigate where there were legitimate points of view on multiple sides”
  • how you operate in a group dynamic
  • methods you use to get to decisions
  • what you optimize for in decisions
  • if you can argue other points of view
• “walk me through a series of product bets you were part of that ended up in compounding value for your customer / step function change in your business”
  • do you think in chunks (multi-release)
  • can you break down work to de-risk
  • can you tell a long-term story
  • what lens (customer, business) you use
• “walk me through a time when you made a trade-off between experience and cost, and the eventual outcome of the situation”
  • your ability to build a business case
  • if you can align business and customer outcomes
  • how you balance inherent tension
  • how you gauge things that are hard to quantify
  • how you think about the customer working backwards