Despite hiring being really shitty in general, I've found PM interviews to be quite random, particularly SMB segment, which is kind of expected as well but sometimes the lack of self-awareness and about the candidate is surprising. Some of them want to keep questions deliberately ambiguous and if you ask for clarity they'll judge you as someone who can't handle ambiguity. And the others will judge you if you don't ask the right questions. As someone with experience in PM I can't believe how bookish the hiring managers are sometimes. Everything is a "pain point " , "problem statement " or a " persona " . So pigeonholed in frameworks and data that they've lost the ability to think without those.
Very very true, I was fed up with the interview, i was getting rejected a lot before as I was very straightforward with my experience (success , failures) I have to literally make so much story around things to understand what they want to hear
And the hypothetical situations in interview may it be guesstimate, RCA problem, product design anything
It was a torture, but after a while I understood the trick and just made a script out of experience and frameworks, metrics they want to hear
Glad you figured this out. It's extremely important to have a script and have an interesting story around that script. unfortunately that's just how it works
Hey @MeekFugato84 can you help me with this? I'm struggling a bit due to this and in a similar situation.
True. And today when many people are aware about these frameworks and what to speak, this scripting is getting even more omnipresent and a default expectation. They WANT you speak like that, else they'll think you are naive or unprepared. Everyone gives a robotic answer, but that's ok to them. What's not ok is being honest and upfront. PM role is all about diplomacy and optics, sad, but true.
Yeah man. Still struggling because of these. I will have to prepare a script soon
@CrazySuit30 @Bumstead - what @BeerTummy said - would love to be part of this dialogue
@CrazySuit30 @Bumstead same story here. Would love to hear how you improvised on your story and problem solving frameworks as per interviews.
I will start:
Rant - these PM interviewers with fewer years than me and just 1 org haven't seen enough failures to learn humility or not trained to u...
What are some intriguing problems/ puzzles you have been subjected to as part of the PM interview process.
Format: Role –> Company –> Problem statement –> Outcome
Does anyone else feel like the PM interview process is easily scammable? I feel like 80% of it is a vibe check and 20% is the actual content itself. Am a PM with 3 YoE and have been interviewing around recently. I have 0 preparation for ...
Genuinely curious what is it that you think we do. In real life, I have had a great time with most engineers I have worked with.
I know there's going to be a lot of trolling but looking for some meaningful answers to improve my rapport...
Engineers who care about what is being built as much as how it is being built are not coming here to crib.
