Product Management Interview Prep

This product manager interview prep course is for anyone who wants to practice interviewing for a product management role.

This includes junior product managers applying for their first associate product manager job to experienced PMs looking to join a larger team or project.

It was built in collaboration with senior+ product managers at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, YouTube, PayPal, Shopify, LinkedIn, and other top startups.

These are the most frequently asked product manager interview questions:

• What's your favorite product and why?
• How would you improve this product?
• What goals would you set for this product?
• Design a product for this user persona.
• Should our company enter a new market?
• How would you increase the number of users of this product?
• What metrics do you use to determine a product's success?
• Tell me about a time you handled a difficult stakeholder.
• Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone on your team.
• Tell me about a project you worked on with a tight deadline.

It takes approximately 8 to 10 weeks to effectively prepare for PM interviews. Interviewing is a separate skill from doing the job well.

We estimate 5-10 hours of work per week during this prep period. Don't underestimate how long it will take to prepare.

Here's an example step-by-step approach for your product management interview prep:

• Week 1-2: Take Exponent's PM interview course to learn frameworks and concepts
• Week 3-4: Focus on practicing one question type at a time (product sense, analytical, execution, or behavioral)
• Week 5-6: Practice answering real interview questions independently or with AI. Record yourself answering to catch weak spots
• Week 7-8: Start doing mock interviews with peers (aim for at least 10 practice sessions with 5 different people)
• Week 9-10: Work with a coach to polish your answers once you're comfortable with the format of PM interviews

Key tips:

• Quality over quantity for mock interviews. Find good practice partners and stick with them
• Don't try to perfect every answer. There are diminishing returns after 10 weeks
• You're ready when feedback gets nitpicky and you start feeling bored with prep

With a paid monthly or annual membership, you’ll get:

• Full access to our PM interview course and 100+ other interview prep courses and modules.
• Hundreds of real PM interview questions, answers, and walkthroughs
• Self-paced video lessons with expert interview answer frameworks
• Access to PM interview rubrics and sample answers for common interview types
• Unlimited access to peer-to-peer mock interviews for product sense, behavioral, and more.
• Access to AI tools for mock interview feedback
• A complete library of company-specific PM interview guides
• Membership in our private Slack community

The Exponent Slack Channel is a private community of thousands of other Exponent members. Our Slack Channel has relevant, fresh information on acing interviews and recent interview experiences shared by candidates like yourself.

If you aren’t satisfied with your membership for any reason, reach out to us and let us know how we can help. We offer full refunds within 5 days of purchase.

Yes! You can purchase coaching for interview prep and career coaching by visiting https://www.tryexponent.com/coaching.