How to Prepare for the Product Management Interview

New York City Campus

GA NYC (Manhattan), Classrooms
10 East 21st Street
New York NY 10010

Past Locations for this Class

How to Prepare for the Product Management Interview | New York City

New York City Campus

GA NYC (Manhattan), Classrooms
10 East 21st Street
New York NY 10010

Past Locations for this Class

About this class

This workshop has been presented at Stanford Graduate School of Business, UC Berkeley Haas, and Santa Clara University. Participants have found this workshop to be very valuable and effective in securing their dream PM jobs. And yes, many participants have found the exercises to be fun and entertaining! In addition to a lecture-discussion on concepts and frameworks, 50% of this workshop will be interactive, to help students apply and learn what was learned in class.

How would you answer these tough product management interview questions?

  • Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet.
  • You're the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber?
  • You're part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites?

Concepts covered will include:

  • Product design questions
  • Tech-focused analytical questions including estimations and lifetime value analysis
  • Strategy questions
  • Technical questions

Takeaways

  • Understanding of the product management role, including key responsibilities
  • Applying a product design framework at the interview
  • Exercising skills needed to answer analytical questions
  • Learning a simple approach to answering any strategy interview question
  • Approaching technical interview questions

Prereqs & Preparation

Optional Reading: "Decode and Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews"

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