Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology by McDowell Gayle Laakmann & Bavaro Jackie

Author:McDowell, Gayle Laakmann & Bavaro, Jackie [McDowell, Gayle Laakmann]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: CareerCup
Published: 2014-03-03T14:00:00+00:00

Bad mouths other people: Yes, we all know some people can be frustrating to work with, but an interview is not the time to dive into this. If you rant about a coworker, your interviewer is likely to wonder if the issue was really that you are hard to work with. Many companies won’t want to roll the dice there. Instead of complaining about the other people in the story, address their motivations. You might say, “The other PM was trying to optimize for immediate revenue” rather than “he was an idiot.”

Shows helplessness: Failure is okay; helplessness is not. If you weren’t able to convince other people of something, explain why—without casting blame. For example, you might say, “the executives and I decided that while my proposal was exciting, changing course so late in the project introduced too much risk.”

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