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> [!quote] “Rest in the end, not in the middle.” - Kobe Bryant

> [!info] “Don’t wait for your next job to do your best work.” - Satya Nadella

### My Info
- Career review - [[Career Review 2025]]
- [[Career History]]
	- [[Principal PM, Dell eCommerce]]
	- [[Senior PM, Dell Precision PG]]
	- [[PM, Porter]]
- [[Resume]]
- [[Behavioral]] stories
	- [[Storytelling styles]]

### Recruiting
[[Resume]]
[[Behavioral]]
[[Product Management - Old|Product Sense]]
[[Analytical Thinking]]
##### Core concepts and principles
- [[Product Management - Old]]
- [[Product Strategy]]
- [[Product Discovery]]
- [[Tech - Old|Technology]]
- [[Analytical Thinking]]
- Estimation

### Interview Questions
- [[Questions to interviewer]]
##### Open ended questions
1. What makes a product well designed?
   Important to understand from candidate what elements they think as crucial. 
   Is there a focus on solving real problems for real people?  
   What is important about the way these solutions are experienced by the users?
2. Give me a few examples of products you think are well designed
    Interviewer wants to know if the examples provided actually align to the answers given to the first question.

##### Product and behavioral questions
1. Behavioral - General:
• What was your last set of performance feedback improvement areas?
• This role will entail a good amount of stress and tight deadlines. Can you handle those?

2. Behavioral - PM Specific:
• Can you describe how you built your last product strategy?
• How do you handle disagreements with your design or engineering counterparts?

3. Product Sense:
• What’s your favorite product and why?
• How would you improve it (your favorite product from above)?

4. Product Design:
• How do you ensure a product's design meets both user needs and business goals?
• What's the most challenging design problem you've faced, and how did you overcome it?

5. Product Execution:
• How do you manage the trade-offs between speed of execution and quality?
• Tell me about a product launch that didn't go as planned. What happened?

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##### Tricky PM behaviorals 
Here are the 10 of the trickier interview questions - and how to respond well:

1. How would you handle a situation where you strongly disagree with the higher-ups' decision?
• Here’s an example of that
• I tried to understand their POV
• Then I weighed everything on first principles
• I spoke up once more
• But ultimately disagreed & committed

2. How would you react if a project you championed was suddenly shelved?
• One example was when
• I took time to think it over myself
• Then I consoled affected team members
• Then I brought it back up when it was strategically important again 6 months later 

3. Describe a time when you had to persuade a team member who disagreed to adopt your approach. How did you handle it?
• This happened recently
• I made sure they felt heard
• I also addressed their concerns
• Then I re-emphasized the data
• This helped them come along

4. Have you used our product?
• Yes, just yesterday in my prep
• I noticed you build for this segment
• One feature I felt was particularly well crafted was
• I like the direction you all are going in
• This job to be done seems very important

5. What’s a popular belief you feel is misguided?
• One of the most popular beliefs about 
• The reason I believe that is
• The data the speaks to me is
• Some people argue
• However I feel they are wrong because

6. Tell me about a time when you had to handle a crisis. How did you navigate it?
• I have navigated many crises
• Here is one example
• I didn’t run away from the problem
• I took the role of a leader
• I contributed to the effort to control it
• This is how we succeeded

7. What’s your current compensation?
• I would like to know your range
• I am open to a wide range of packages
• I care about fit and other factors as well
• What is the range for this position?

8. How do you deal with overwhelming amounts of work?
• That’s always the case in the roles I’m in
• I prioritize based on urgency and impact
• It has helped me to think in terms of high leverage work
• I just recently got good feedback on my prioritization skills

9. How would you react to many people around you getting laid off?
• I understand these things happen
• First I would take time to process my own feelings
• Then I would look out for my colleagues still here 
• And get to work on figuring out how to fill the departed’s gaps

10. What was the last negative feedback you have received?
• My last feedback was
• I acknowledged it as a gift
• I got to work improving it
• Then I checked in on progress 
• Here’s how it’s now solved

Rubric 
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### Recruiting guides
- How to: [[Manager 1-1s - Questions to Ask]]
- How to: [[Keyword-based job search]]
- [[Changing jobs after i140]]
- [[2021_Salary_Guide_Technology_NA.pdf]]
- [[Job satisfaction]]
- [[Employee Motivation.pdf]]
### Company info
[[Amazon]] - e-commerce and cloud infrastructure
[[Apple]] - consumer hardware and software
[[Google]] - search, ads, consumer software and cloud infrastructure
[[HP Inc]]
[[Meta]]
Microsoft - business software and cloud infrastructure
[[PayPal]]
[[Samsara]] 
[[Stripe]]

### Favorite quotes and articles
- [[How To Be Successful - Sam Altman.pdf]]
- https://hbr.org/2023/07/why-kindness-at-work-pays-off
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- What sort of sorcery is this? 
- Build more automations 
