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🚀 Ace Your Next Product Manager Interview with These Essential Resources 📚

If you're an aspiring product manager, one of the biggest challenges you might face is being able to structure your thoughts and come to a solution during an interview. This can be particularly challenging when you're faced with guesstimates, root cause analysis, product improvement, metrics, or GTM and strategy interviews.


Fortunately, there are resources available to help you prepare for these types of interviews and improve your chances of landing that dream product manager job. In this post, we'll introduce you to some essential resources that we personally use for PM interview preparation.


Guesstimates: 🧮 https://bit.ly/3WQgPhw

Guesstimates are a common type of PM interview that tests your ability to make quick calculations and estimations. This resource provides a framework for tackling guesstimates, as well as some examples to practice on.


RCA: 🔍 https://bit.ly/3PWCsup

Root cause analysis (RCA) is a technique used to identify the underlying cause of a problem. This resource provides a step-by-step guide for conducting an RCA, as well as some examples to practice on.


Product Improvement: 📈 https://bit.ly/3jAPQZi

Product improvement interviews test your ability to identify and prioritize areas for improvement in an existing product. This resource provides a framework for conducting product improvement interviews, as well as some examples to practice on.


Metrics: 📊 https://bit.ly/3Q0Wxjh

Metrics are a crucial aspect of product management, and you may be asked to identify and interpret key metrics during an interview. This resource provides a guide to some common metrics and how to analyze them.


GTM & Strategy: 🚪 https://bit.ly/3PW0oOu

Go-to-market (GTM) and strategy interviews test your ability to develop and execute a successful product strategy. This resource provides a framework for GTM and strategy interviews, as well as some examples to practice on.


These resources have been curated by PM School, and they cover a wide range of topics to help you prepare for different types of PM interviews. We hope that you find them helpful in your job search and that they give you the confidence to ace your next PM interview. 🙌


If you have any other tips or tricks for preparing for PM interviews, please share them in the comments below. Good luck! 🍀 

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