Create a Guide: Product Management Job Interviews

[Arjayellis]

Overview

We need to create a guide to doing well at your PM interview so that our members can achieve their professional goals

Action Items

The phases in the guide-making process are listed below. Each phase displayed in blue is linked to a wiki page with instructions on how to complete that phase. Open the wiki page in a new tab, copy the instructions for each part into the section labelled 'Tasks' at the bottom of this issue, and complete each task listed.

• Gather Examples Solo (open in a new tab)
• Gather Examples Collaboratively
• Create a Guide Draft
  • If needed, create a template
• Have your guide peer reviewed
• Present your guide for leadership review

Resources/Instructions

PM Interview Guide Link
@Arjayellis provided this list: with the following text: These should help with general PM development and interviewing.
https://www.tryexponent.com/
https://svpg.com/articles/
https://productmanagerhq.com/blog/
https://www.productplan.com/blog/
https://dailyproductprep.com/
https://www.cindyalvarez.com/blog/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjm_qVkCPjOVDz9BWjNqO9A
https://productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/the-ultimate-list-product-manager-interview-questions/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=WeeklyArticles
https://www.productmanual.co/
https://productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/the-ultimate-list-product-manager-interview-questions/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=WeeklyArticles
https://medium.com/@stellarpeers

Related issue #238

Projects to Check

Tasks

• This is where you will copy instructions from the wiki page for the step you are currently on.

[alexilee]

Progress:
Finished Sections

• Who is this guide for?
• What consists of a typical product manager interview?
• Before applying
• How to apply
• Interview prep

Need to Finish

• Offer
• Resources

Blocks: None
Availability: weekdays
ETA: Will likely finish draft of guide by Tuesday or Friday PM meeting and ready for peer review.

[alexilee]

Draft is done and ready for PM CoP review.

[ktjnyc]

HI Alex, I updated the image on header to match the name of the guide and left a comment or two in the interview prep section. I haven't done PM interviews before but hear they are much different than a typical behavioral interview so I think it would be helpful to add other prep/examples specific to product

[alexilee]

@ktjnyc Appreciate the changes and comments. I will take a look!

[Olivia-Chiong]

I've done a first past review, picked up on a lot of formatting errors. Made a few suggestions.

[SaashaG]

For devs adding this guide to the Toolkit page: the guide card Illustration and image credit information is in the Toolkit page Figma file (blue rectangle on bottom left)

[alexilee]

Guide is reviewed and complete. Ready for leadership approval.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Before I review it, did you see this issue hackforla/product-management#238 which also seems to have a draft doc in it as well as members questions?

[SheIsBukki]

@alexilee Thanks for doing great work on the guide. Here are the notes from the Leadership review (guides team)

• Please update the following (see the guides in resources for examples of formatting)
• Footer
• I also noticed that there are no screenshots in this guide but maybe it doesn't need one because of the type of guide it is. I have added a few resources you can use to review this guide and edit accordingly. Thanks again for your commitment.

Resources

• HOW TO WRITE A GUIDE
  
• HOW TO ADD SCREENSHOTS & GRAPHICS TO YOUR GUIDE
  

When completed with changes

• remove the "Review Guide" label and replace with "Leadership Review" label
• move to Review column on project board

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

The author has removed themselves, this guide is ready for someone else to finish up.

Additional suggestions for improvement:

• See notes from Bukki above Create a Guide: Product Management Job Interviews #13
• It also needs a reference to LinkedIn. Meet with Bonnie and discuss

[aymarmsba]

Outdated Description Content:

Overview

We need to create a guide to doing well at your PM interview so that our members can achieve their professional goals

Action Items

• Gather and review examples and resources, adding each example as a link in the resources section
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Gather Examples" label and add the "TG: Draft Template" label
• Create a draft template, either in markdown format in this issue or a google doc in the old product management google drive new product management google drive>Product Management Guides
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Draft Template" label and add the "TG: Create Guide" label
• Create a guide on how to use the template
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Create Guide" label and add the "TG: Review Guide" label
• Review the guide with product management communities of practice
  • Once done, remove the "TG: Review Guide" label and add the "TG: Leadership Review" label
• Present to Hack for LA leadership team for sign off
  • Guide needs edits. See notes at the bottom.
    • Once done, remove the "TG: edits needed" label and add the "TG: Leadership Review" label
• Present to Hack for LA leadership team for sign off
  • Once approved, remove the "TG: Leadership Review" label and add the "TG: Place Guide" label
• Possibly create an issue template on .github
  • Include link to template under resources if you add it as a template in .github

Resources

PM Interview Guide Link
@Arjayellis provided this list: with the following text: These should help with general PM development and interviewing.
https://www.tryexponent.com/
https://svpg.com/articles/
https://productmanagerhq.com/blog/
https://www.productplan.com/blog/
https://dailyproductprep.com/
https://www.cindyalvarez.com/blog/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjm_qVkCPjOVDz9BWjNqO9A
https://productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/the-ultimate-list-product-manager-interview-questions/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=WeeklyArticles
https://www.productmanual.co/
https://productschool.com/blog/product-management-2/the-ultimate-list-product-manager-interview-questions/?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=WeeklyArticles
https://medium.com/@stellarpeers

Related issue #238

[aymarmsba]

Assignee, Labels, Project Board Placement, and Milestones for this issue in the Product Repo:

[aymarmsba]

Files in this Issue:

PM Interview Guide Link

• This file will need to be moved to the knowledgebase-content Google Drive
• Unable to move this document to the knowledgebase-content Google Drive