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What's something that you didn't know it took to become a Director back when you were a senior product manager?
Something that you didn't know you would need to do that you only realized later.
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How do you think about staying within a company versus looking for opportunities outside? When do you know it's time to leave?
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What should you do if your Manager is not helping you grow and you see little growth opportunities? Should you stay at the job and try to learn as much as possible or should you definitely leave the company and look for a new opportunity?
How much time should you give a job and a manager to see if they are a fit in your growth and career?
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What are the biggest frustrations you have as a product manager?
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What has been the most surprising thing about being a Director that you only realized after you were promoted?
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What pointed recommendations do you have on gaining influence as a new member of an organization or as a junior product management team member?
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What ideas or projects would you try to take on and lead after landing your first product management role?
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How do you measure your own success in your role and how much have those performance indicators evolved as you grew within your role?
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What are some behavioral questions you would ask candidates in a PM interview for a Director level role?
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What are the key questions you like to ask and why? How would the proper answers to your questions look like?
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Do you generally recommend that candidates go 'above and beyond' in preparing for interviews by? In which situations do you recommend this approach or not?
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What are some of the most common red flags you've come across either on a candidate's resume or initial interview that you'd advise future product managers to avoid?
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What is the most important thing you've learned about interviewing?
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As a hiring manager, what do the best product management candidates have in common?
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How do you retain good talent, especially when PM roles are in such high demand across the industry?
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What advice do you have for recent graduates that want to go straight into product management?
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How do you overcome domain hiring bias while looking for product roles?
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Should product management decisions be data-driven or more so data-informed? Should Product Managers lead with intuition and use data to back up their assumptions?
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What are the top 3 most technical skills a Product Manager needs to have? How do you hone these skills and talk about them during interviews?
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How do you get into a saas based company if you have no experience working in one and what are some of the core competencies you need when you are starting out?
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As a non-it professional how does one start in PM career? What are transferable skill sets required for a middle management PM role?
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How do you manage the 1000 questions and tasks that are shot at you when you are a PM in an early stage startup?
I'm the first PM in a startup that used to be sales led. I'm trying to set up the proper discovery processes, prioritization tactics and strategy, but I find that extremely hard to do as I'm getting carried away in the day-to-day tasks around requests, issues reported and project management.
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What is your favorite product management interview question and the best answer you've heard?
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What metrics do you use to justify a pay raise?
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I’ve heard that the jump from Sr. PM to the “next level” (e.g Principal or Group PM) often comes with a steep learning curve. Is that true, and how would one prepare to solidify the right foundation to ease the transition preemptively?
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As a product manager, how to get better at framing and articulation? Any framework?
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There are different frameworks to prioritize the product backlog. How practical is the use of such frameworks? How to manage top management expectations?
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What are some of examples of ways you have been able to get promoted or support your colleagues to get promoted at the same company?
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How do the skills you need differ across the different levels of product management?
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What do you think is top 3 skills a PM should have acquired to move to director level?
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What's a typical product manager career path?
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What do you see as the most important hard/soft skills to be a successful product management professional?
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What's the best way to break into the tech industry as a product manager?
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How do you sell 'no, not now' to stakeholders?
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How can I navigate a situation where I am frequently assigned project management tasks rather than product management responsibilities, and where there seems to be a lack of emphasis on product vision and impact-based product building?
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What framework do you use when assessing a new opportunity at a different company?
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Do you think it makes sense to grow PM competence within the organization or hire people from the broader market to succeed faster?
i.e. how much should we focus on and invest in the teammates who could switch/transfer in their roles vs pay for the new PMs coming from other organizations as new hires?
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What processes do you have in place to incorporate customer feedback into your product roadmap?
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What's your framework to prioritizing needs/deliverables when you're the first Product Manager at a company establishing the function?
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What is your process of setting a vision when you join a new company?
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What are the most important soft and hard skills PMs can build to become successful in their field going forward?
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What are the most important product management skills or perspectives that others inside an organization could benefit from that would improve their day to day?
Running a "Think Like a Product Manager" course next month and would love to hear others'
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When joining a new team as a product manager, is it better to have the right soft skills and have to learn the hard skills of the job? Or vice versa?
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What is the most underrated soft skill of a high performing PM?
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What hard skills are must haves to be a Product Management leader? What are nice to haves?
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There is often a huge emphasis on analytical skills, instead of UX skills, when it comes to product management job descriptions. What role does UX play in product management?
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What can someone who has an extensive engineering background do to prove themselves competent for an entry-level product management role?
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How do early career PM's proactively learn about skills that take them to the next level. How do they develop them.
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What's the career path for a 5yr experienced Product Manager to become a leader? What are the steps to prepare oneself for the next step, i.e., becoming a Sr./Director/VP of Product or CEO?
I have worked as Product Manager for the last 5 years collaborating closely with Eng, Design, and Business in both startup and corporate environments.
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How do you decide if you should follow the IC PM path or the people leader PM path?
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