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What are some good resources to practice for PMM interview questions and case studies?

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Vidya Drego
Vidya Drego
SmithRx VP of MarketingJanuary 20

I like to ask questions in interviews that stem from real challenges and decisions my team are having or have made. I've seen great resources aggregated here on Sharebird, from the Product Marketing Alliance, and PMM Hive. But definitely don't memorize answer to questions or cases, make sure you connect examples back to work you've done or your own experiences.

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Holly Xiao
Holly Xiao
Salesloft Director of Product MarketingJanuary 13

Product Marketing Alliance and Sharedbird have some great resources on this topic. Glassdoor is also helpful sometimes when folks share interview questions they were asked. So I’d take full advantage of them if you haven’t already. I’ve also googled phrases like “PMM interview questions” or “preparing for a product marketing interview”. You’d be surprised how helpful some of the Medium articles are.

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Mary Sheehan
Mary Sheehan
Adobe Head of Lightroom Product MarketingJuly 13

  • Practice some basic questions you will get using the STAR method (The STAR method is a structured manner of responding to a behavioral-based interview question by discussing the specific situation, task, action, and result of the situation you are describing)

    • Do you have a product marketing philosophy?

    • What’s the biggest project you’ve led? What worked/ didn’t?

    • Challenge: If you had $5k to spend in any way you wanted, how would you spend it and why?

    • Will this be the same type of role you’ve done before or something different?

    • Have you been promoted in your previous role?

    • How did you manage success in your last role?

    • What new skill have you learned lately? (personal or professional)

    • What metrics are important to manage as a product marketer?

  • For case studies, here are some common ones I've seen to be prepared for:

    • Fill out a messaging & positioning doc for a product of their choice.

    • Create a mini go-to-market strategy for a product they like and present it to the team

    • Dissect a launch, and to tell you who they think it was positioned to (and why), the highs and lows, and what they would have done differently

  • Yasmeen Turayhi wrote a great book I'd recommend

  • I wrote a blog post for hiring managers a while ago where you can see the other side of the coin: https://www.productlaunch.pro/blog/zjinmm6iorhoxmpi7tp5dizallpbdo

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