Re:How Braze Hires Product Managers
by awillen on Thursday July 11, 2019 @06:04PM
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This is all very reasonable, but I'd love to see more detail. I certainly agree a T-shaped profile is ideal for PMs, but I'd love to know in which of the listed skills a PM needs to show depth of expertise. Presumably product sense, but that's a pretty vague term that encompasses things like design and business strategy.
Similarly, the questions that each interviewer is being asked to dig into are good, but many of them are fairly self-evident. Of course the design team wants to ensure the PM can work well with designers, but what I love to learn from other companies is how they assess that. Some teams do homework, others do design exercises during the interview and others have the candidate talk through what's well- and poorly-designed about an app they use.
I'd definitely be interested in a follow up that gets further into how interviewers assess the relevant questions.
I'll throw in a mildly shameless (but relevant) plug for a book I just finished about interviewing for PM jobs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TCRCG69. It's focused on how a candidate can succeed, but it goes through the interview process and some detailed questions that I have seen as a candidate and asked as an interviewer.
Similarly, the questions that each interviewer is being asked to dig into are good, but many of them are fairly self-evident. Of course the design team wants to ensure the PM can work well with designers, but what I love to learn from other companies is how they assess that. Some teams do homework, others do design exercises during the interview and others have the candidate talk through what's well- and poorly-designed about an app they use.
I'd definitely be interested in a follow up that gets further into how interviewers assess the relevant questions.
I'll throw in a mildly shameless (but relevant) plug for a book I just finished about interviewing for PM jobs: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TCRCG69. It's focused on how a candidate can succeed, but it goes through the interview process and some detailed questions that I have seen as a candidate and asked as an interviewer.