Introduction


The purpose of these materials are designed to help you get an overview of Product Management, to help you decide if it is a career that you might want to pursue, and if yes, how to get a job. For leaders or founders that are not in directly in Product Management, the principles may still be useful when trying to determine what company or product you might want to build or how to successfully improve and grow what you already have.



PM Overview and Frequently Asked Questions: This gives you an overview what Prodcut Management is and to help you decide if you want to pursue it for your career.



Interview Prep: The rest of the materials are designed to help you prepare for PM interviews at Google, Meta, Amazon, Netflix as well as midsize and start up companies. Some companies have more structured interviews that feel almost like a standardized test (e.g., Meta, Amazon), while other companies have a mixed of structured interviews and free form style questions (e.g., Google, Netflix). Often times midsize companies will mirror the format of these larger companies so that candidates don't have to do too much bespoke interview preparation. Start-ups, however, often tend to have the most unstructured interviews because fit and belief in the company and its mission is so important. Regardless of the interview format, these materials should help prepare you for whatever comes your way and ultimately try to test your ability to do the day to day PM job. Even outside of interviews, the structure of these product design and execution interview answers can help you avoid common mistakes as a PM. The biggest mistake of course is typically to focus on building a tech solution that doesn't actually solve a real problem, instead of first identifying painful customer problems and then coming up with a solution to solve them.



PM reading list: If you are interested in learning more about product management, this list will help you dive deeper into the over-arching principles. PM interview formats are constantly changing so some of these interview prep books are a outdated but many of the concepts are still relevant.



Table of contents


1. PM Overview and Frequently Asked Questions:

2. PM Interview Overview

3. PM Interviews - Product Design Mock Examples

4. PM Interviews - Product Execution & Analytical Examples

5. PM Reading list