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TikTok · 3 months ago
"Overall, I had a positive interview experience. The conversation felt engaging and gave me a better understanding of the role, the team, and the types of challenges they are working to solve. I especially appreciated the opportunity to discuss my experience and think through questions that reflected the work of the position.
One area I could have improved personally was being more concise in a few of my responses. There were moments where I could have communicated my thought process more directly. Overall, though, I enjoyed the conversation and appreciated the interviewer's time, transparency, and insights into the team and TikTok."
Program Manager · Mid Level / L4

eBay · 6 months ago
"The process was relatively short and well defined. I went through a recruiter screen followed by a first round with the director of the portfolio.
After passing that the final round was a panel with two group PMs, an eng manager, and a design manager (4 separate interviews over the course of a week)
eBay provided 4 "themes" for each panel interview, however both PM rounds asked execution questions when one of the rounds was supposed to be strategic or product design focused."
Product Manager

Amazon · 7 months ago
"I interviewed for a Senior Product Manager role where both L5 and L6 openings were in play. The process was pretty simple structurally: one 30-minute screening call, then a final loop of five separate one-hour interviews that I could schedule on different days. From what I saw, the whole thing was heavily behavioral and really centered on Amazon's leadership principles, even when the interviewers didn't say the principle out loud. The questions were pretty open-ended, so a big part of the challenge was recognizing what they were actually testing and tailoring my story to that. What stood out to me was how standardized the process felt around principles rather than product cases or execution exercises."
Product Manager · Senior / L5

Amazon · 7 months ago
"I interviewed for an SDE II role, and the whole process felt pretty standard and transparent. Amazon told me upfront what the process would look like, so I did not feel like I was guessing what came next: first an online assessment, then three 40-minute interviews back to back on the same day. The technical questions were all very classic problems, and the biggest surprise was that my interviewers often started with coding first instead of spending the first part on behavioral. The behavioral side was still important, but the follow-ups went deep into the actual details of my work instead of stopping at a polished STAR answer. After the loop, my recruiter mostly asked about logistics like start date and work authorization, and then they sent me the offer letter."
Software Engineer · Mid Level / L4

Nvidia · 10 months ago
"The process felt pretty unstructured and luck-based because interviewers seemed to make questions up in real time off my answers. I went through an HR screen, then a hiring manager round, then a final loop with three TPM peers from the same group. What stood out was that the final panel was not a cross-functional loop at all. It was basically the team itself, and the three peers were also managers under the hiring manager. The interviews were heavily behavioral, but they kept weaving in product knowledge, customer scenarios, ambiguity, and some light technical troubleshooting around Nvidia's domain. I did not get the offer, and one weird part was that after about a month of ghosting, recruiting came back just to add an extra peer round, then disappeared again."
Technical Program Manager · Senior / L5

Google · a year ago
"I got in through a referral for an L7 PM role on NotebookLM inside Gemini. The process included a recruiter screen, a conversational hiring manager deep dive, and an on-site split into two phases: first, product design and execution; then, technical system design and a leadership behavioral.
The unusual part was a live-coding section during the product design round, where I had to prototype the thing I had just proposed, and most of the pushback was about how I prompted and reprompted. Overall, it was one of the most practical AI PM loops I have done, and it matched what the recruiter told me almost exactly. I made it to the final round but did not get the offer."
Product Manager · Senior / L5

Verizon · 2 years ago
"Mostly behavioral. One round with Hiring manager, and another round with peer level team managers. Interviewers were required to take notes in a STAR format."
Product Manager · Sr. Staff / L7
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