Product Management Interviews

Focus on how you drove engagement/retention for your B2B product, and how it ultimately lead to improving renewals and/or increasing upsells to higher tiers, if you made ...

I really enjoy working with people who are incredibly proactive / take initiative types who are naturally curious and motivated to solve hard problems. What typically cor...

Depends a lot on what you mean by going 'above and beyond'! I think if you're super excited about a company and spend extra time researching the company and its product, ...

Thinking back to the successful hires I've made, some common themes emerge:Balance of opinions and curiosity. I think some of the strongest PMs are the most opinionated, ...

Approaching every question with the goal of "getting the answer right". When in reality, there is no "right" answer and it's impossible for most of us to even come close ...

My favorite interview question was asked by a hiring manager ~8 years ago when I interviewed for an Associate PM position at MuleSoft. I was asked the following: "Imagine...

Focus on understanding the customer, more than the technology. Increase your customer engagement, and spend more time in understanding how the product will be used than h...

I don't think there is a typical product career path! Many of the PMs I have worked with or hired have changed careers and moved around in different roles. I see people e...

The biggest strengths (and believe me its a huge benefit, and one I look for in all candidates) are being scrappy and getting sh** done. As an entrepreneur, you are forc...

Greatness comes in many different forms, but for me, preparedness is very important in a project manager. We give a take-home task and the main thing I look for is how mu...

The best way to assess candidates is by being a good listener. The lessons learnt from successes and failures are something that one should listen to.

What are some challenges you handled and how?What are some errors you made and what did you learn from them?How do we set goals?

Technical questions are usually asked in a few contexts within a PM Interview. Understanding a PM's experience working with engineers: These questions are usually asked ...

This really depends on the role I'm hiring for and what the current team lacks in skillset. And frankly, I probably didn't write the job description well enough for you t...

These are two different questions with two different answers. How to break into product:I always tell people to try to transfer into PM within the company they are curren...

1 Read the book "Cracking the PM interview" by Jackie Bavaro for a primer!2 Spend time thinking through, rehearsing, and practicing your scenarios for common questions3 P...

Resume: Usually, the biggest red flag for me in a resume is when either the candidate doesn't describe any impact metrics or focuses on a vanity metric, eg, if a checkou...

Ownership of a key business metric/s: Almost all head of product roles involve ownership of one or more key business metrics. Cross-functional partnerships with experienc...

I like to ask two types of questions: (1) behavioral-style questions, which prompt the candidate to use specific examples from their past experience, rather than hypothet...

I've found that the ability to speak clearly to your past experiences and how you've either (a) uniquely added value or (b) learned and grew from a given experience large...