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How to Shine in a Product Manager Interview by former Facebook PM
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How to Shine in a Product Manager Interview by former Facebook PM

Product Management webinar about how to shine in a product manager interview. 📆 Check out upcoming events: https://prdct.school/events ℹ Find out more about us: https://prdct.school/44f6WNW Interviewing for a Product Manager position is never a piece of cake. It takes experience, spectacular communication skills, and extensive prep. Valentine Aseyo, former Product Manager at Facebook, shared the golden rules of interviewing that will help you shine in the interview and score your dream job. He discussed how to prep for an interview, what the essentials of successful interviews are and how to ask the right questions. Valentine Aseyo is the SVP of Product at Bandsintown, the #1 concert discovery platform that connects 40 million fans with their 450 thousand musicians. Before Bandsintown, he spent 8 years working at Facebook in Ireland, India, and US spanning many roles from User Experience to Advertising Products, to Marketing & Sales. Before that, he worked at IBM and Colgate & Palmolive. Valentine is also an Olympic recruiter; he interviewed over 2000 candidates throughout his career. ABOUT US: Product School is the world’s first tech business school. We offer certified Product Management, Coding, Data and Blockchain courses; our instructors are real-world product managers working at top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Netflix. Our classes are part-time, designed to fit into your work schedule, and the campuses are located in 14 cities worldwide, including Silicon Valley, New York, Los Angeles and London. See our upcoming courses here: http://bit.ly/2HaoK3F In addition to classes, each of our campuses host weekly events with top industry professionals about Product Management, Data, Coding and Blockchain. Click here to see what we have coming up: http://bit.ly/2q8Vkem Product leaders from local top tech companies visit Product School campuses each week. Through lectures, panel discussions, and a variety of other forums, the world’s top product managers visit Product School to provide invaluable real-world insights into critical management issues. 📓 The Product Book has arrived! Learn how to become a great Product Manager. On sale for a limited time. Get your copy here: http://amzn.to/2uJqg9A #ProductManagement #ProductSchool #Upskill #TechEducation #Education #Product #TechStartup #FinTech #Business #ProductManager #ProdMgmt
What Are the Basics of a #ProductManager Role by Google PM, Ankit Prasad
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What Are the Basics of a #ProductManager Role by Google PM, Ankit Prasad

Product Management event in San Francisco about the basics of a product manager role. 📆 Check out upcoming events: https://prdct.school/events ℹ Find out more about us: https://prdct.school/44f6WNW Ankit walked through an intro to the Product Manager role, the skills needed, and how the role differs between small and large companies. He wrapped up with some advice that has helped him in his Product Manager interviews over the years. Ankit Prasad has been a Product Manager since 2010 across a range of companies: large and small. He is currently a Product Manager at Google where he works in the consumer payments space. Prior to this, he worked at Earnest (a start-up, recently acquired by Navient), Yammer (a Microsoft acquisition), and Microsoft (on the PowerPoint team). He holds degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Economics from Duke University as well as an MBA from Harvard. ABOUT US: We host product management, data and coding events every week in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Orange County and New York. Click here to see what we have coming up: http://bit.ly/2HBYBdZ Product School is the world’s first tech business school. We offer certified Product Management, Coding, and Data courses; our instructors are real-world managers working at top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Netflix. Our classes are part-time, designed to fit into your work schedule, and the campuses are located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Orange County and Los Angeles. Product leaders from local top tech companies visit Product School campuses each week. Through lectures, panel discussions, and a variety of other forums, the world’s top product managers visit Product School to provide invaluable real-world insights into critical management issues. If you want to become a product manager in 8 weeks, see our upcoming courses here: http://bit.ly/2EGyIry 📓 The Product Book has arrived! Learn how to become a great Product Manager. On sale for a limited time. Get your copy here: http://amzn.to/2uJqg9A #ProductManagement #ProductSchool #Upskill #TechEducation #Education #Product #TechStartup #FinTech #Business #ProductManager #ProdMgmt
What I Look for When I Hire a Product Manager By Airbnb Product Lead
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What I Look for When I Hire a Product Manager By Airbnb Product Lead

Product Management event in San Francisco about what Airbnb product lead looks for when she hires product managers. 📆 Check out upcoming events: https://prdct.school/events ℹ Find out more about us: https://prdct.school/44f6WNW Curious about what companies are looking for when hiring Product Managers? Companies may have different approaches as to what they place more emphasis on. However, there are some fundamental core values & skill sets that are clearly evaluated when talking to prospective candidates. Angeli talked through some core skill sets a Product Manager is evaluated on and how to assess your own skill set to determine company fit. Angeli Jain is the Product Lead for Trust & Safety at Airbnb, which includes responsibility for the following areas: Account Integrity, User Reputation, Content Moderation, Financial Fraud, Offline Risk, Infrastructure & Tools. She was previously at Google, PayPal & Booz Allen Hamilton. She's a Carnegie Mellon University alumni for both undergraduate and graduate school. Chapter 1 0:33 Speaker Background Chapter 2 4:27 What Skillset Do I Look for? Chapter 3 5:32 Vision Chapter 4 9:19 Structured Thinking Chapter 5 24:12 Leadership & Collaboration Chapter 6 29:33 Execution & Accountability Chapter 7 35:13 Finding the Right Fit Chapter 8 37:23 Decision Making Function Chapter 9 39:08 Q & A ABOUT US: We host product management, data and coding events every week in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Orange County and New York. Click here to see what we have coming up: http://bit.ly/2F6Q6Jn Product School is the world’s first tech business school. We offer certified Product Management, Coding, and Data courses; our instructors are real-world managers working at top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Netflix. Our classes are part-time, designed to fit into your work schedule, and the campuses are located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Orange County and Los Angeles. Product leaders from local top tech companies visit Product School campuses each week. Through lectures, panel discussions, and a variety of other forums, the world’s top product managers visit Product School to provide invaluable real-world insights into critical management issues. If you want to become a product manager in 8 weeks, see our upcoming courses here: http://bit.ly/2CmxSmq 📓 The Product Book has arrived! Learn how to become a great Product Manager. On sale for a limited time. Get your copy here: http://amzn.to/2uJqg9A #ProductManagement #ProductSchool #Upskill #TechEducation #Education #Product #TechStartup #FinTech #Business #ProductManager #ProdMgmt
How to Crack the Product Manager Interview by Gayle McDowell
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How to Crack the Product Manager Interview by Gayle McDowell

Product Management event in San Francisco about how to crack the product manager interview. 📆 Check out upcoming events: https://prdct.school/events ℹ Find out more about us: https://prdct.school/44f6WNW In this talk, Gayle McDowell taught how to prepare for Product Manager interviews, what top companies like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft really look for, and how to tackle the toughest problems. Gayle discussed how the ambiguously-named "PM" (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the PM interview questions (estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important "pitch"). Gayle McDowell is the author of the book "Cracking the PM Interview", the #1 interview prep book for aspiring product managers. She is also the Founder and CEO of CareerCup and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview and Cracking the Tech Career. Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft and Apple and has extensive interviewing experience on both sides of the table. She has interviewed and received offers from Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, IBM, Goldman Sachs and a variety of other firms, and she has interviewed over 120 candidates at Google and served on its hiring committee. Chapter 1 0:05 Speaker Introduction Chapter 2 2:10 The many names of a Product Manager & What They Do Chapter 3 3:30 What Is the Perfect Product Manager? Chapter 4 12:10 In an MBA Needed? Chapter 5 17:40 Behavioral Questions. Chapter 6 22:25 How to Tell a Great Pitch? Chapter 7 29:35 Big Mistakes Chapter 8 34:40 Mistakes, Weaknesses, Failures Chapter 9 38:10 Product Design Chapter 10 50:05 Not All Products Are Created Equal Chapter 11 52:20 Estimation Questionsç Chapter 12 1:00:30 Major Mistakes with Estimation Questions Chapter 13 1:02:20 Basic Interview Questions Chapter 14 1:10:05 Questions from the Audience ABOUT US: We host product management, data and coding events every week in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Orange County and New York. Click here to see what we have coming up: http://bit.ly/2hhUMlU Product School is the world’s first tech business school. We offer certified Product Management, Coding, and Data courses; our instructors are real-world managers working at top tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, and Netflix. Our classes are part-time, designed to fit into your work schedule, and the campuses are located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Orange County and Los Angeles. Product leaders from local top tech companies visit Product School campuses each week. Through lectures, panel discussions, and a variety of other forums, the world’s top product managers visit Product School to provide invaluable real-world insights into critical management issues. If you want to become a product manager in 8 weeks, see our upcoming courses here: http://bit.ly/2zAjG7Q 📓 The Product Book has arrived! Learn how to become a great Product Manager. On sale for a limited time. Get your copy here: http://amzn.to/2uJqg9A #ProductManagement #ProductSchool #Upskill #TechEducation #Education #Product #TechStartup #FinTech #Business #ProductManager #ProdMgmt
How to answer Product Design / Product Sense Questions - BEST Framework to follow!
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How to answer Product Design / Product Sense Questions - BEST Framework to follow!

💎 Join the BEST Product Manager Interview Program to land a PM offer! https://www.pmdiego.com/the-product-interview-operating-system-get-an-offer Ace your Product Sense / Product design question with this framework! This framework that I'll teach you will IMPRESS your interviewer! In this video we will talk about a framework and break it down into multiple sections, explain each one in detail. In the next parts of this video I'll give you an example that follows this framework end to end. ----------- What you'll find in this video: @3:25 the framework @3:30 First thing to do: Clarify Constraints, Goal and Scope @7:00 How to start the answering the case question @7:50 A tip on how much time you should take to brainstorm the next steps and what to do if you are silent for too long @9:00 Brainstorming Users and how to come up with different segments @12:04 Use cases and User Pain Points @14:00 Solving our User's pain points @16:14 How to Prioritize @17:50 Measuring success of your implementation Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pmdiegogranados/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/PMDiegoGranados My website with comprehensible playlists to break into PM: http://pmdiego.com/ 💎 More things to help you break into PM 💎 My LinkedIn where I post weekly tips about networking, product management and finding a job: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegogranadosh/ A step-by-step guide to break into Product Management: https://pmdiego.substack.com/p/if-you-want-to-break-into-product Survival Guide for new PMs: https://pmdiego.substack.com/p/-survival-guide-for-new-product-managers 💻 About me 💻 I'm a Senior Product Manager by day and content creator whenever I have a few minutes in the morning, day or night to spare! I have experience working in Product Management at Microsoft in AI & Machine Learning, as well as Cisco in Wireless Technologies. I'm originally from Mexico City and I moved to the U.S. in 2015 to study my MBA at Duke University. I discovered Product Management when I started Business School and since then, it has been my mission and my passion to help others break into this role! 📧 Contact 📧 Most of the help you need can be found on my website or Newsletter. However, if there's anything else you need, send me a message on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diegogranadosh/ or to my email in the about section on my channel. http://pmdiego.com/ Thank you for stopping by! ✅ Disclosure ✅ This video is not sponsored; all opinions shared are my own. #productmanagement #pminterviews #interviewquestions #productsense #amazoninterview #googleinterview #microsoftinterview #productmanager #productmanagement #interview #career #MBA #jobsearch #technology #productmanagerresume
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"Whether you're a seasoned Product Manager like me or just starting your journey in this field, the resources shared in this blog will broaden your knowledge, and help you excel in the exciting world of Product Management. Job portal consists of openings for organizations such as Google, Microsoft, Mckinsey, Startups, Internship openings for entry level candidates, provides a platform to assist you find right opportunity as per your experience."

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Product Manager, Accenture

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