Introduction

These materials are designed to help you get an overview of product management principles and prepare for your interviews.



PM reading list: This is a curated selection of books that will help you learn some of these over-arching principles. These are good books to read when you are new to product or have been in it for a while and may need a reminder of what good product development looks like in an ideal world. There are also some good books that are specifically written to help you prepare. PM interview formats are constantly changing so some of these interview prep books might be slightly outdated but many of the concepts are still relevant.



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.



Table of contents


1. PM Reading list

2. PM Interview Overview

3. PM Interviews - Product Design Mock Examples

4. PM Interviews - Product Execution & Analytical Examples