Product-Management-and-Leadership
Interview prep
A guide to preparing for product management interviews
Product Management and Leadership Guide
154 stars
8 watching
28 forks
last commit: over 1 year ago
Linked from 2 awesome lists
awesomeawesome-listawesome-product-managementengineering-managementinterviewinterview-prepinterview-preparationinterview-questionsleadershipmanagementmanagerpm-interviewproduct-analyticsproduct-managementproduct-managerproductmanagementsoft-skillssoftware-managementtech-culture
Best interview preparation books | |||
| "Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology" | by Gayle Laakmann McDowell | ||
| "The Product Manager Interview: 164 Actual Questions and Answers" | by Lewis C. Lin | ||
| "Decode and Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews" | by Lewis C. Lin | ||
| "The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback" | by Dan Olsen | ||
| "Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy" | by Parth Detroja | ||
| "In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives" | by Steven Levy | ||
Best interview preparation books / Other great books | |||
| Rise above the noise | |||
| Interview math | |||
| Thinkertoys | |||
| Web UI design patterns | |||
| Mobile UI design patterns | |||
Best interview preparation books / Free stuff | |||
| 90 Product Manager Interview Questions | Go to Lewis C. Lin’s website: | ||
| ‘The Art of Product Management’ | Jackie Bavaro’s Quora page: | ||
| sample questions and answers | Go to Stellar Peers: a community platform that helps you prepare for interviews. They have on their site | ||
| thepminterview.com | Go to to practice some of the above questions and answers with a timer | ||
| Interview Preparation | |||
Online Resources | |||
| Lewis Lin Courses | |||
| Cracking the PM interview (video) | |||
| How to ace the software engineering interview (video) | |||
| Quora | |||
| Glassdoor | |||
CV | |||
| “My Personal Formula for a Winning Resume” | by Laszlo Bock | ||
Best way to write a cover letter | |||
| “standout” examples | The Muse has some that I would not use but you can start to see what grabs attention | ||
Best advice on how to prepare for questions | |||
| 3C, 4P, Porter’s 5 forces, Market Entry, etc at the back of your mind | It also helps to know a few frameworks — | ||
Interview / Estimation | |||
| To make your life easier, here is a short (and shabby) fact sheet I created while preparing | I know I said you don’t need to know the answers to the questions, but let me rephrase that. While you don’t need to memorize the answers, it’s crucial to know certain ubiquitous numbers. Let’s say you’re interviewing for Google. What is the market share of Google Search? How much of the pie does Google Cloud Platform have? What was Google’s revenue and profit in 2017? Knowing these numbers, and more, helps more than you’d think. | ||
Interview / Behavioral | |||
| multiple sites that give you example behavioral questions | There are , but at the least, cover the basics: | ||
Interview / Also | |||
| MBA Mondays | If you’re in the US, working for a startup, you need to know about how companies are funded and how stock options work. That’s tricky territory not easy to explain in a summary other than to say “get clued up about finance because it’s your money and future we’re talking about.” Regardless of gender, ignorance is not cool. If you’re curious about the employer perspective on stock options for employees, I recommend Fred Wilson’s posts from back in 2010, particularly the ones on , , and | ||
| Josh Doody | I found that had some helpful advice for how to think about negotiations. His newsletters are informative but you can | ||
| she negotiated for an additional $15,000 at Yammer | , Anna Marie Clifton wrote a long post about how . can be a great ally in negotiations, and it’s useful to learn how to wield it | ||
Read | |||
| Оптимизация ставок: зависимость между ценой клика и установленной ставкой | |||
| Теоретико-информационный подход к анализу воронки продаж в контекстной рекламе | |||
| blog post | This that describes the job hunting process of landing an SF-based Product Manager role | ||
| article | This written by a Product Manager that had experience interviewing with some of the biggest tech companies in Silicon Valley, including Salesforce, Google, Dropbox, and Facebook | ||
| HackerNoon | A post on how to prepare for a Product Manager interview | ||
| blog post | This highlights a recommended four-step approach | ||
| product strategy mock interview | Watch another with a LinkedIn PM, including a follow up discussion of best practices | ||
| productboard article | This that discusses various product prioritization frameworks used in industry | ||
| article | This lays out a three-pronged approach to prioritize product features and improvements | ||
| article | View this that highlights a recommended three-step approach for questions that involve client-server relationships and back-end structure of algorithms | ||
| technical mock interview | Watch another with a Google PM, including a follow up discussion of best practices | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About Funnels | |||
| Introduction To Website Funnel Analysis Checklist | |||
| Secrets of the E-Commerce Conversion Funnel: Effective Ways To Boost Conversions and Drive Sales | |||
| Conversion Rate Optimization | |||
| How to Create a Website Conversion Funnel | |||
| Hiring | |||
Project Management / Project Management Lifecycle / 📃 Articles | |||
| 5 Phases of Project Management – A Complete Breakdown | |||
| 4 Phases of the Project Management Lifecycle Explained | |||
Project Management / Project Initiation / 📃 Articles | |||
| Project initiation: The first step to successful project management | |||
| Project Initiation: A Guide to Starting a Project the Right Way | |||
Technical Manager | |||
| Team Lead Roadmap | 5,053 | 9 days ago | |
| Engineering Manager Resources | 10,595 | about 1 month ago | |
| awesome-engineering-management | 2,152 | 4 days ago | |
Technical Manager / 📊 Building diagrams, flows and charts | |||
| Fapp.diagrams.net | Flowchart Maker & Online Diagram Software | ||
Technical Manager / Project Management | |||
| Project management for non-project managers | |||
Great Management Books | |||
| Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | by Liz Wiseman | ||
Great Management Books / Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter | |||
| https://thewisemangroup.com | |||
| Accidental Diminisher Quiz | |||
Great Management Books | |||
| No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention | by Reed Hasting and Erin Meyer | ||
| Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility | by Patty McCord | ||
| Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life | by Ozan Varol | ||
Great Management Books / Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life | |||
| ozanvarol.com | |||
Great Management Books / Other good books | |||
| That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea | by Marc Randolph | ||
Soft-skills for the Manager / OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) | |||
| transparent company cultures | OKRs foster by informing everyone of the impact and priorities of teams and individuals across the organization, top-down from the CEO to the intern | ||
Soft-skills for the Manager / OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) / 📰 Articles | |||
| What is an OKR? | |||
| Here’s Everything You Need to Know About OKRs | |||
| 4 Tips for Making Goal Setting Work | |||
Soft-skills for the Manager / Ideas to improve on Feedback | |||
| use a template | 154 | over 1 year ago | For meetings to structure |
| use a template | 154 | over 1 year ago | For retrospective meetings to structure |
| use a template | 154 | over 1 year ago | For meetings to structure |
| use a template | 154 | over 1 year ago | For retrospective meetings to structure |
Soft-skills for the Manager / Ideas to improve on Feedback / Web Sources | |||
| Four-part formula | from | ||
| In Praise of Praising Your Employees | |||
| Understanding When to Give Feedback | by | ||
| Research: Vague Feedback Is Holding Women Back | , | ||
| The real reason your team won’t give you honest feedback | , | ||
Soft-skills for the Manager / Strategic Thinking / Improve on Strategic Thinking | |||
| The LifeLabs one-page template | 154 | over 1 year ago | is a good starting point |
| The LifeLabs one-page template | 154 | over 1 year ago | is a good starting point |
Soft-skills for the Manager / Coaching skills / Articles | |||
| The SOON Funnel: 4 Coaching Questions the Best Managers Ask | |||
Soft-skills for the Manager / Support / 🎓 Courses | |||
| Be There Certificate | |||
Tools | |||
| Confluence | |||
| Atlassian University | |||
| The Workstream | |||
| Confluence Best Practices | A great product with thoughtful documentation enables your users to do what they love. Learn how your team can work together to create thoughtful documentation in Confluence | ||
| Atlassian University | |||
| The Workstream | |||
| Confluence Best Practices | A great product with thoughtful documentation enables your users to do what they love. Learn how your team can work together to create thoughtful documentation in Confluence | ||
| GroupMap | |||
| miro | |||
| MindMeister | |||
| app.diagrams.net | |||
| Figma | |||
Web Resources / Web Sites | |||
| re:Work | |||
| Culture Amp Support Guide | |||
| Culture Amp | |||
| LifeLabs Learning | |||
| Work Life | |||
| Products & News | |||
| Trello Blog | |||
| Radical Candor | |||
| FutureThink | |||
| Lattice | |||
Web Resources / GitHub Repositories | |||
| awesome-leading-and-managing | |||
Web Resources / Articles | |||
| How Google Sold Its Engineers on Management | |||
Web Resources / Podcasts 🗣️ 🎧 | |||
| How I Built This | |||
| Guy Raz | is the founder and CEO of Built-It Productions, and an award-winning podcast host. He has interviewed over 200 highly successful entrepreneurs, innovators, and idealists to uncover their most impactful business stories | ||
| Deep Questions | |||
| Cal Newport | Computer science professor and New York Times bestselling author, answers his podcast listener’s questions about work, technology, and his top-rated book, | ||
| Masters of Scale | |||
| Radical Candor | |||
| The Broad Experience | |||
| Ashley Milne-Tyte | This podcast features short, 25-minute episodes that spark candid conversations about professional careers and success in the workplace. Hosted by journalist , “The Broad Experience” tackles some of the biggest issues facing women in business, work, and leadership | ||
| The LEADx Leadership Show | |||
| At The Table | |||
| Hacking Your Leadership | |||
| Dose of Leadership | |||
| Richard Rierson | This podcast is the ultimate leadership resource of inspiring, educational, and motivating interviews with real-world leaders by | ||
| Teamistry | |||
| Gabriela Cowperthwaite | Hosted by award-winning documentary and feature film director, , “Teamistry” unveils the incredible behind-the-scenes stories of teams who joined together to achieve amazing human triumphs | ||
| 10 Podcasts That Every Leader Should Have In Their Listening Queue | by Trello Blog | ||
Communities / Slack Communities For Product Managers | |||
| Product School | |||
| Slack Channel created by Lewis Lin | |||
| FirstRound Talent | |||
| Ken Norton’s | |||
| GV | Blog and newsletter (specifically in the portfolio) | ||
| Culture First community | form | ||
| People Geeks | |||
Communities / Women’s communities | |||
| Women in Product newsletter | |||
| Women in Product | Facebook group | ||
| Women 2.0 | |||
| Advancing Women in Product | |||
| Job Search | |||
Communities / Mailings | |||
| Software Lead Weekly | |||
jnv/lists