This document provides an overview of how to prepare for product manager interviews. It outlines the main question types as design, strategy, analytical, technical, and behavioral. It then dives deeper into examples for each question type. The document also discusses how to assess interviews, outlines preparation steps such as studying materials and doing mocks, and provides resources for additional learning. The overall goal is to help candidates understand the different question styles and feel prepared for the PM interview process.

1. How to ace PM interviews?

2. Agenda
Question types
Interview Assessment
Preparation
Resources

3. Question Types

4. 5 Types of Questions
Design
Strategy
Analytical
Technical Behavioral

5. Analytical
1. Estimations
1. Example: How many dentists in NYC?
2. Success metrics
1. Example: How to measure success of Facebook?
3. Metric troubleshooting
1. Example: Profit went down, what do you do?
4. Trade-offs
1. Example: Would you launch feature A or B?

6. Design
1. New product
1. Example: Design alarm clock for blind
2. Improve product
1. Example: Improve Google docs
3. Product for specific technology
1. Example: Design a teleportation product
4. Product preferences
1. Example: Your most or least favorite product

7. Strategy
1. Market entry/exit
1. Example: New product line for Amazon
2. Merger or Acquisition
1. Example: Should Facebook acquire Uber?
3. Pricing
1. Example: How do you price space travel?
4. Go to market
1. Example: Launch strategy for recipe app

8. Technical
1. System design
1. Example: Design Youtube system architecture
2. Explain a technology
1. Example: Explain ML to a 5 year old
3. Tech troubleshooting
1. Example: Latency has increased, what do you do?
4. Algorithms
1. Example: Design a sorting algorithm

9. Behavioral
1. Your story
1. Example: Tell me about yourself
2. Tell me a time…
1. Example: What’s your biggest failure?
3. Entry, exit, and future
1. Example: Why PM? What’s your 3 year plan?

10. Interview Assessment

11. Interview Assessment
Question type Assessment Criteria
Analytical
Clarification, >1 approach methods, breakdown, sanity check
Design
Clarification, high level goal, user segmentation, empathy,
creative solution
Strategy
Clarification, structure, logical steps, conclusive
recommendation
Technical Clarification, scoping, communication, loopholes, trade-offs
Behavioral Can you do a great job once hired in the new environment

12. Preparation

13. Interview Preparation
Steps Detail
Interview process Target company criteria
Evaluation
Identify weakest and strongest question types, study the
target company
1-2 weeks 2 hours daily practice, start from weakest through strongest
1 month mocks Mock interviews covering at least 20 mocks
Before interview Stop mocks, follow news, and relax

14. Resources

15. Resource Types
1. Study material
1. Product
1. Cracking the PM interview - Gayle Laakmann, Jackie Bravaro
2. Decode and conquer - Lewis Lin
2. Technical
1. educative.io - grokking the system design interview
2. Gaurav Sen Youtube Channel
3. Strategy
1. Stratechery
2. Interview questions
1. Exponent
2. Product management exercises
3. The product manager interview - Lewis Lin
3. Mocks
1. Stellar peers
2. Lewis Lin slack
3. Igotanoffer

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