Scaling People by Claire Hughes Johnson

Author:Claire Hughes Johnson [Johnson, Claire Hughes]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Stripe Press
Published: 2023-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Written Exercise Example

Asking interviewees to complete a decent, well-constructed written exercise–be sure to provide clear instructions–is an opportunity to signal that your organization’s work culture values timeliness and diligence. Whether or not an interviewee returns a high-quality response to the written exercise on time will tell you a great deal about how much they value these qualities.

Product manager written exercise

This exercise should take about three hours to complete, and your output should be no more than a few pages. Treat the deliverable as a pre-read that you would send before a meeting. We’ll use your response to assess written communication, product sense, data analysis, technical reasoning and scoping, critical thinking, strategic thinking, and problem-solving.

As you work through the exercise, please make reasonable assumptions. For the purposes of this exercise, all data analysis can be completed in Excel or Google Sheets, and all data definitions are provided.

Prompt:

Users love our product, but even so, they sometimes churn. This is something that we take very seriously. Analyze this example churn data [link to data]. What is leading to churn? What are the most important takeaways from the data?

Imagine you’re building a roadmap for improving retention: What projects and product changes would you prioritize to reduce churn? Make sure your response is specific enough to display your product sense and technical thinking.

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