90% of Product Managers are NOT preparing the Correct way | PM Interviews

Be the Top 1% Interview Candidate

You are preparing for PM interviews

You are doing a lot of Mocks

Still, you are not able to crack the PM interview.

You may be preparing the Wrong way or the Old way.

Not Solving the Question Using the First Principle

Imagine a simple-looking question — Design a Birthday app

This looks like an easy question, but many people freeze while answering this question.

They just start rambling and not thinking from the first principle

The top 1% of the Candidates will think this way

First Principle Breakdown of the problem

You need to break down the problem using first-principle thinking.

If you don’t do it, you might miss a lot of important points like employers celebrating employee birthdays, and the Brand celebrating customer’s birthdays correct? If you don’t break it down it will be really difficult to answer like the top 1%

Not Showing Strategic Thinking

Imagine you get a question like — How would you improve Spotify

Questions by Rest 99%

1. What is the Goal of Improving Spotify? What are we trying to achieve from this?
2. Are we improving Spotify for a particular type of Device like Mobile or Desktop? Any specific geography?
3. Is there any Resource Constraint in terms of Technology / Monetary or any Time Constraint I should be aware of?

Questions by top 1%

1. What is the goal of Improving Spotify, as Spotify is a very big Product having verticals like Music, Podcast etc? So Are we trying to improve any specific vertical maybe podcast, given the rising popularity of podcasts across the Globe? Is it about improving Discoverability, improving user retention etc?