When it comes to hiring product managers for software businesses, it’s not quite as straightforward as it is for some roles. * Designers — look at their designs * Software engineers — look at their code * Product manager — ????? That’s why the questions you ask are key to understanding what kind of a product manager you’re going to get. You want to understand how they’ll interact with stakeholders, how they’ll figure out where the product value is going to come from, and how they’ll work with the team. So what do you ask?

1. 10 product manager interview
questions you should definitely
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2. How do you measure the success of a
product manager?
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3. If you come across a company with no
product manager, how do you convince
them they need one?
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4. Where do your skills lie as a product
manager?
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5. Why does your current product exist?
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6. A sales person gives you a request from
a customer, what do you do with it?
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7. How do you go about understanding
your customers?
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8. Tell me about how a new feature gets
briefed into the tech team?
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9. Everyone’s backlog is too big. How do
you priortise yours?
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10. What’s the hardest part of being a
Product Manager in your current
organisation?
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11. And what are you doing to change
this?
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12. Tell me about the most surprising thing
you have learned from your customers?
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