Impact Interview

[...] Jobs’ quotes over the years.  Jobs insights are profound.  I thought his quotes on product design are helpful, especially for product manager candidates who are interviewing at companies, [...]

[...] ;You are responsible for the health of the FB newsfeed.  What are your considerations? Product design. FB PMs can dream up innovative new products, and describe how they should be built.   [...]

[...] and provides sample answers. What to Expect There are five parts to the Google PM interview: Product design. Google PMs put users first. PMs are zealous about providing the best user experiences. It [...]

[...] Can the PM candidate launch a product?  Do they know how to work with various teams? Product design Can they identify what’s good and not so good about a product?  Can they sketch [...]

[...] If you have an upcoming Amazon product manager (PM) interview, this post discusses the interview process and how you can best prepare.  We also have an Amazon PM interview class video that [...]

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[...] examples for?  Respond in our comments section. Who have you spoken with so far in the interview process and what did you talk about? [This demonstrates if can they retain knowledge of names and [...]

[...] . They lead the analysis of the competitive environment, customers, and business goals. Sample questions include: How many elevators do you need for a 40 story building? If you were the CEO for [...]

[...] empathy and always includes a passion for products, down to the smallest details.  Sample questions include: How would you improve Google Maps? How would you reduce Gmail storage size? How [...]

[...] concepts and clearly communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences.  Sample questions include Explain recursion. Give me a real life example of recursion. How do you work with [...]

[...] details.  They can paint a compelling vision and articulate clearly how to achieve it. Sample questions include: How would you price the Kindle Fire HD? Assume you are the new Product Manager in [...]

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[...] Performance-based interview questions are similar to behavioral interview questions.  That is, the interviewer is using your past performance to gauge your future [...]

[...] hasn’t been common in the past, Google interviewers are increasingly relying on behavioral interview questions. Photo credit: Robert Scoble [...]

[...] competitor? That is, sell sports, concert, and theater tickets? Also be prepared for behavioral interview questions such as Tell me a time when you had to influence engineering to build a particular [...]

[...] . He asked for additional practice questions for the product design portion of the Google PM interview. So here it is: Design a new mobile app for YouTube. Improve Google’s search engine [...]

[...] PM questions and provides sample answers. What to Expect There are five parts to the Google PM interview: Product design. Google PMs put users first. PMs are zealous about providing the [...]

[...] Balsamiq, and get comfortable sketching UI designs on the whiteboard. Technical. Unlike the Google PM interview, you’re not likely to get programming interview questions at the FB PM interview. [...]

[...] whiteboard. Technical. Unlike the Google PM interview, you’re not likely to get programming interview questions at the FB PM interview. Instead, they’re likely to quiz you on technical [...]

[...] you drive more people to write Amazon reviews? Amazon PM interviews almost never ask programming interview questions, so no need to prepare for those. To Prepare For The Interview To prepare for the [...]

[...] to put together a go-to-market plan. Technical. No need to prepare for programming interview questions, so no need to prepare because it is unlikely you’ll get those questions [...]

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[...] are profound.  I thought his quotes on product design are helpful, especially for product manager candidates who are interviewing at companies, like Google, that emphasize product design questions. [...]

[...] solutions that are incremental or derivatives of a competitor’s feature set. The Google interviewers are evaluating your creativity, and they place a big emphasis on big ideas (aka “ [...]

[...] Me About Yourself and Why Google? Lastly, while it hasn’t been common in the past, Google interviewers are increasingly relying on behavioral interview questions. Photo credit: Robert Scoble [...]

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[...] For those of you preparing for a Google product manager interview, here’s what Google recruiting is sending to its product manager candidates: [...]