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

• [x] Gather and review examples and resources, adding each example as a link in the resources section
  • [x] Once done, remove the "TG: Gather Examples" label and add the "TG: Draft Template" label
• [x] 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
  • [x] Once done, remove the "TG: Draft Template" label and add the "TG: Create Guide" label
• [x] Create a guide on how to use the template
  • [x] Once done, remove the "TG: Create Guide" label and add the "TG: Review Guide" label
• [x] Review the guide with product management communities of practice
  • [x] Once done, remove the "TG: Review Guide" label and add the "TG: Leadership Review" label
• [x] 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

[Arjayellis]

@Olivia-Chiong

[Olivia-Chiong]

@alexilee Do you have any updates?

Progress: Blocks: Availability: ETA:

[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!

[nagesh23nayak]

Hi Alex, This is a good document. I made some comments. Please see if they could be incorporated.

[alexilee]

Thanks all for the helpful comments. Ready for leadership review.

[alexilee]

Posted a reminder for leadership in Slack #admin channel. Still waiting on leadership review.

[Olivia-Chiong]

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

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@alexilee I added some comments to the template file. The one where we are setting standards for guides. I assume you have not had the person or people who are managing that process do the review since you have not incorporated the items I have addressed in that issue. It applies to this guide and several others. So its more efficient for me to post on that guide. If you need me to I can post the link from that other issue here.

[alexilee]

I'll find it. Thanks.

[Olivia-Chiong]

@alexilee Please update the following

• Progress: How much progress have you made on the issue?
• Blocks: Are you facing any blockers?
• Availability: How much time do you have to work on it this week?
• ETA: When do you think it will be completed?

[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 #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 https://github.com/hackforla/product-management/issues/92#issuecomment-899553880
• It also needs a reference to LinkedIn. Meet with Bonnie and discuss