Fourth/last round calls are usually with the CEOs, presidents or business strategy/visionaries. For a startup, the CEO is likely to assume the role of the Product Manager and hiring manager, as smaller and early stage companies usually do not have built out Product departments yet. If you have gotten this far into the process, it is likely that you already
Product Management is situational and contextual. No product development lifecycle is going to be seamlessly executed every single time for every single product. Similarly, during the interview process, the same answer for similar questions will not always be correct. These answers change based on who is asking and context behind the questions they are asking – specifically, for the case
In this podcast, Rich, founder of Product Gym, speaks to Arkady Sokolov, Senior Product Manager for Analytics and Intelligence at ListenFirst, the industry’s leading and most comprehensive social analytics platform. Arkady was a former student of Product Gym and speaks to how he was able to successfully navigate our program to make his career transition into Product Management. We also
Product Management is a relatively new industry that doesn’t yet have an established definition, and may vary from company to company. Thus the questions that come up are going to be fairly broad with no narrowly defined or textbook answer. The questions, however, are pretty textbook. Specifically, here are some questions that are ALWAYS asked in every Product Management interview: Walk me through your Product
This blog series is for product managers who are in the recruiting and hiring cycle, working with recruitment agencies, working with product management recruiters and anyone looking to hone the interview skills needed for product management. How do I prep for a second round interview for a Product Manager position? If you’ve followed Product Management Interview Questions and Prep, Part 1, then you will have successfully: Received the name of the Product Manager who
While many people trying to transition into Product Management may not have the direct title or experience, it is very likely they will have many transferrable skills that can be communicated in your pitch to frame your experience as a Product Manager. To start, we like to have our students refer to the template to help frame their pitch: “I
This blog series is for product managers who are in the recruiting and hiring cycle, working with recruitment agencies, working with product management recruiters, and anyone looking to hone the interview skills needed for product management. Interviewing is a muscle. Your first few calls will sound the worst because you have not been exercising this muscle. You are not yet comfortable talking about yourself and that’s fine. You need
In this article, we address the dangers of “cherry picking” roles to apply to. When you feel that you ran out of companies to apply to, you need to ask yourself: Where are these companies located? Are these companies located inside of your local area (i.e. New York), outside of your local area (in which case this is a city you contemplate moving to),
Time is money. Time becomes even more valuable when you are looking for a job that suits your needs. When you are taking your time to interview with a company for a Product Manager position, the last thing you want is a low ball offer waiting for you. In this article, we received an email from a fellow coaching client who is concerned he may be wasting
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