This document summarizes a presentation on how to prepare for product management interviews. It provides an agenda that includes understanding who the presenter is, how to structure interview preparation time, how to approach behavioral and product case questions, and common mistakes. For behavioral questions, it recommends telling stories using the STAR framework. For product cases, it suggests practicing with sample products and following an online framework. Top mistakes include not being concise, behavioral answers being too long, brainstorming out loud instead of privately, focusing on own perspective not users for innovations, and suggesting too common improvements.

1. www.productschool.com
Framework to ace your interviews!
by Microsoft Product Leader

2. CERTIFICATES
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3. Corporate
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5. Framework to ace
your interviews!
@PM Diego Granados
PM advice and Interview Prep
Diego Granados Product Manager (AI&ML)
Microsoft
https://www.pmdiego.com/
All the advice in one single place

6. 1
2
Who am I?
How to structure your time in
preparation for your interviews
3
4
Behavioral Questions
Product Case Questions
Today's
Agenda
5 Most common mistakes
@PM Diego Granados
PM advice and Interview Prep
https://www.pmdiego.com/

7. PM Diego Granados
WHO AM I?
@PM Diego Granados

8. What you need to
know to ACE your
#ProductManagement
interviews

9. If you have 2 weeks or 2 months to prepare, here's my recommendation!
INTERVIEW PREP TIMELINE
Social Media
Glassdoor
10-K (Public companies)
Company Research
Behavioral questions
Prepare and practice
S.T.A.R. stories
Product Case/Design
Questions prep
Practice strategy questions
Porter's 5 forces
Mock Interviews!
Why are you being asked these questions?

10. Behavioral
questions
Your opportunity to tell your story!
Framework
to
ace
your
interview!

11. HOW YOU TELL YOUR STORY MATTERS...

12. Extra tip:
Prepare for an Amazon interview
even if you don't have one!
Be concise and have structure.
Your communication skills are
being evaluated!
S.T.A.R. + "L" (Lesson)
Use "I" more than "We"
Keep it short! < 5min

13. Product
Case
Questions
Thinking like a Product Manager!
Framework
to
ace
your
interview!

14. How to Practice Produce Case/Design questions
Make a list with at least one of the following
categories of products:
1.
Technical (SW)
Apps
SW
Websites
Technical (HW)
Wearables
Smart home
devices
Other tech
devices
Non-Technical
Stay away from common
products like iPhones or Spotify

15. How to Practice Produce Case/Design questions
2. For every product you selected write down the answer to the case question following a
framework
Check out this Framework on my YouTube Channel!

16. About Frameworks
IT' S NEVER ABOUT THE
FRAMEWORK
Interviewers want to see that you can
think like a Product Manager
DON' T MEMORIZE A
FRAMEWORK
Instead, understand the steps and why
each one is important

17. Top
Interview
Mistakes
Not being concise or not having structure
Behavioral questions too long or hard to undersand
because of lack of structure.
Brainstorming outloud
Always take time to brainstorm during a case question and
don't take more than 1~2 minutes.
Innovating products from your own perspective
Innovating products in a case question is ALWAYS about
users
Not enough innovation in case questions
Suggesting improvements that are too common

18. @PM Diego Granados
PM advice and Interview Prep
Diego Granados
Product Manager (AI&ML)
@PMDiegoGranados
https://www.pmdiego.com/

19. www.productschool.com
Part-time Product Management Training Courses
and
Corporate Training