30-Day Google Product Supervisor Interview Prep Information

It is a self-guided, 30-day, step-by-step interview prep information for Google product administration (PM) interviews. It’s probably the most in style options from my new e-book, The Product Supervisor Interview; this model new e-book has over 160 observe questions for product administration interviews.

I’ve excerpted that Google PM examine information right here.

Better of luck and hope the examine information helps along with your product administration interviews!

Lewis

Day 1. Getting accustomed to Google’s PM Interview

Duties

Objective

Know the scope and nature of the Google PM interview.

Day 2. Getting accustomed to the product design interview

Background Studying

• Learn concerning the CIRCLES design methodology in Decode and Conquer.
• Overview the product design examples from Decode and Conquer to see how CIRCLES is utilized.

Workouts

Do the next ache level workouts in The Product Supervisor Interview:

• Little one’s 1^st Birthday Get together
• Finest Handyman
• Job Search Ache Factors
• Discovering Somebody to Do Taxes

Do the next buyer journey map workouts in The Product Supervisor Interview:

• Expedia Journey
• AirBnB Journey
• On-line Course Journey
• Job Search Journey
• Dwelling Enchancment Journey
• Buyer Service Journey

Objectives

• Study product design questions.
• Perceive the product design framework, CIRCLES.
• Observe how others reply interview questions with CIRCLES.
• Observe two elements of the CIRCLES framework:
  1. Itemizing (brainstorming) options
  2. Reporting buyer wants (buyer journey map).

Day 3. Placing product design questions along with the CIRCLES methodology

Train

Do the next product design workouts in The Product Supervisor Interview:

• Disney Expertise with Your Telephone
• Bettering Google Hangouts

Objectives

• Like a wine connoisseur, detect and deduce how your response differs from the pattern. As you develop into attuned to the variations, your individual responses will enhance.
• For now, don’t fear about response high quality or velocity. Getting began, by training, is half the battle.

Day 4 to 10. Placing product design questions along with the CIRCLES methodology

Train

Full one instance a day for the subsequent seven days, selecting from the checklist of questions from The Product Supervisor Interview, beneath.

1. Bettering Google Play Retailer
2. Monetizing Google Maps
3. Cell App Design for Nest
4. Favourite Product
5. Favourite Web site
6. Folks You Could Know
7. Automotive for the Blind
8. ATM for the Aged

Objectives

• Simply clarify why CIRCLES results in higher interview responses.
• Perceive when, how and why one ought to adapt CIRCLES.

Day 11-13. CIRCLES in Actual-life

Train

Additional enhance your product design abilities by making use of the CIRCLES Technique to real-life. For every one of many subsequent three days:

1. Stroll across the neighborhood.
2. As you stroll, use the CIRCLES methodology to enhance on a regular basis gadgets. Listed here are some design issues you’ll be able to ponder:

• How can sidewalks be improved?
• How can road lamps be more practical?
• Construct a product to unravel the canine poop drawback.
• What new merchandise can forestall flat tires in automobiles or bikes?
• What innovation could make gardening much less of a chore?
• What progressive new product could make park gatherings be extra social, with strangers?

Objective

Acculturating a product design mindset 24 hours a day, each on the interview and in your on a regular basis life.

Day 14*. Discover a observe associate for product design

Train

Join the product administration interview observe group on Slack: bit.ly/PMInterviewGroup

Put up a request for a associate or companions within the #req-practice-ptr channel.

Take turns throughout your observe session. That’s, Accomplice A (interviewer) offers a case to Accomplice B (interviewee). Then, swap roles.

Coordinate prematurely which case every particular person will obtain; to simulate the interview surroundings, the interviewee ought to do a case that they aren’t accustomed to. The interviewer ought to take time to acquaint themselves with the query and the pattern reply.

* Repeat the associate observe exercise as usually as you prefer to. One of the best candidates may have practiced at the least 20 product design circumstances.

Objective

Grasp the product design interview. It’s the primary cause why candidates fail the Google PM interview. When you have dedicated your self to considerate observe, you need to be an skilled on the subject of tackling product design questions. Use the rules beneath to gauge your product design proficiency:

• A novice suggests the plain or copies aggressive options. An skilled suggests novel and memorable concepts. An skilled suggests concepts that make the interviewer go, “Hmm, I want I considered that; possibly I ought to construct an organization primarily based off of that concept.”
• A novice mentions person insights which can be shallow. The novice doesn’t take curiosity in customers or their motivations. The novice is poor in person empathy. The skilled is a lifelong learner of human psychology and habits. An skilled regularly asks questions on what folks do and why they do it. Because of this, an skilled simply factors out insights which can be pressing, related and shocking.
• A novice follows the CIRCLES methodology step-by-step, like a house cook dinner attempting to make a classy soufflé for the primary time. The novice is afraid of creating errors and clings tightly to a prescribed framework. The novice is so busy attempting to recall the completely different steps of the CIRCLES framework that the novice’s responses sound robotic and textbook. The skilled understands {that a} framework is a guidelines, not a recipe. The skilled understands that CIRCLES is there to forestall errors of omission. CIRCLES is there to assist make sure that the listener’s expertise is full, satisfying and probably even entertaining.

Day 15. Getting accustomed to the metrics interview

Background Studying

• Learn concerning the AARM framework in Decode and Conquer.
• Learn metrics examples in Decode and Conquer to get accustomed to metrics questions in an interview setting.

Workouts

Do the next metrics brainstorming workouts in The Product Supervisor Interview:

• Metrics for eCommerce
• Metrics for Two-sided marketplaces
• Metrics for SaaS
• Metrics for Cell Apps
• Metrics for Publishers
• Metrics for Person-Generated Web site
• Metrics for Assist Tickets

Do the next metrics prioritization workouts in The Product Supervisor Interview:

• Most Essential Metric: Two-Sided Market
• Most Essential Metric: Cell App
• Most Essential Metric: eCommerce

Objective

Get extra familiarity in developing with and figuring out good metrics.

Day 16. Diagnosing metrics issues

Workouts

Full the next examples on this e-book, by yourself or with a associate:

• Buying Cart Conversions
• Cell App Scores
• Reddit Posts

Objectives

Achieve proficiency in brainstorming a whole and exhaustive checklist of points when troubleshooting a metric.

Day 17 and 18. Placing the metrics drawback collectively

Workouts

Full one instance a day for the subsequent seven days, each by yourself and along with your observe associate, from this e-book.

• Your Favourite Google Product
• Drop in Hits
• Declining Customers
• Gradual Obtain on Kindle
• Pinterest Metrics
• Go-to-Market and Success
• Metrics for Uber Choose-up

Objectives

Construct proficiency in figuring out, prioritizing and diagnosing metrics points.

Day 19. Getting accustomed to the estimation interview

Duties

• Examine estimation questions in Interview Math.
• Learn the next estimation examples in Interview Math to get acquainted.
  • Ladies’s Rain Boot Market
  • Smartphone Case Market
  • Subway’s Gross sales
  • Netflix Subscription Gross sales

Objectives

1. Study estimation questions.
2. Discover ways to setup estimation questions utilizing problem bushes.
3. Discover ways to make assumptions.
4. Attempt the next estimation questions:
   1. Vehicles in Seattle
   2. How Many Google Apps Customers
   3. Income from YouTube Purple

Day 20. Observe estimation questions

Duties

Full one instance a day, from this e-book, for the subsequent seven days.

1. Planes within the Air
2. Gmail Advertisements Income
3. Google Buses
4. Gmail Prices
5. Driverless Automotive Purchases in 2020
6. Storing Google Maps
7. Fb’s Advert Income

Objectives

Grasp estimation questions. Not solely is response high quality vital, but in addition you must full most estimation questions in about 10 to fifteen minutes.

Day 22. Be taught extra about technique questions

Duties

Learn the next chapters in Decode and Conquer.

• Strategizing: Tradeoffs
• Strategizing: New Market Entry
• Strategizing: CEO-Degree Points

Objectives

• Study frequent technique query varieties.
• Work out tips on how to method technique questions utilizing frameworks.
• See how the frameworks are utilized to frequent PM technique questions.

Day 23. Observe technique questions

Duties

Observe the next technique questions, on this e-book, both by yourself or along with your observe associate:

1. Google’s TV Cable Service
2. iPhone Unique Partnership

Objectives

Present a response that’s considerate, logical and addresses the corporate’s targets. For extra examples of considerate technique responses, check with the favored weblog, stratechery.com.

Day 24. Be taught extra about pricing questions

Duties

Learn the “Pricing” chapter in The Advertising and marketing Interview.

Objectives

• Study pricing questions, together with the distinction between pricing new vs. present merchandise.
• Work out tips on how to method pricing questions utilizing frameworks.
• See tips on how to apply pricing frameworks to in style questions.

Day 25. Observe pricing questions

Duties

Observe the next pricing questions, both by yourself or along with your observe associate:

• Pricing New Merchandise
  • Google Driverless Automotive Pricing
  • Google and Teleportation
• Pricing Present Merchandise
  • AWS Worth Discount
  • Kindle Pricing at Goal

Objectives

1. Google’s Technique
2. Google vs. Microsoft
3. Google Moonshot Initiatives
4. Google Maps in Mongolia
5. Google Retailer

Day 26. Conventional and Behavioral Questions

Duties

• Learn the “Profitable the Behavioral Interview” chapter in Decode and Conquer.
• Draft and polish your solutions for the next questions:
  • Inform me about your self.
  • Why Google?
  • Influencing your staff
• Observe and get suggestions out of your observe associate

Objectives

Whereas Google has an affinity for case questions, you must spend a while getting ready for conventional and behavioral questions. Google interviewers normally ask conventional icebreaker questions like “Inform me about your self” and “Why Google?” Nevertheless, behavioral interview questions like “Inform me a time once you influenced a staff” is a more recent incidence. Google’s HR division, since 2013, has requested its PM interviewers to ask extra behavioral interview questions.

Day 27. Getting Aware of Technical Interview Questions

Duties

Overview the technical subjects recommended in: bit.ly/PMPrepPlan

Objectives

Achieve familiarity with technical ideas and questions. At Google, technical interview questions are reserved for on-site interviews, normally for candidates who’ve succeeded in different elements of the interview akin to product design, analytics and technique questions.

Day 28. First Attempt at Technical Interview Questions

Duties

Try the next technical interview questions:

• 100-Story Constructing and Two Eggs
• Lowering Bandwidth Consumption

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Objectives

Attempt some technical interview questions, with a concentrate on calming your nerves and approaching questions with open curiosity. The “100-Story Constructing and Two Eggs” query is an instance of an algorithm query. “Lowering Bandwidth Consumption” is an instance of a technical structure query.

Day 29-30*. Second Attempt at Technical Interview Questions

Duties

Try the next technical interview questions from The Product Supervisor Interview:

• Load Balancer for Google.com
• Dictionary for Scrabble
• Google Search Providers
• Bayesian vs. AI

* Repeat the technical interview observe exercise, as crucial.

Objectives

Construct confidence tackling technical interview questions.

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