Technomanagers

Google PM Leader “ I’ll be honest: I’ve seen a lot of product management interviews where things went south, not because the candidate lacked skills, but because of subtle but critical mistakes. These mistakes can happen to the best of us, even with plenty of experience. ” You are preparing for PM interviews You are doing a lot of Mocks Still, you are not able to crack the PM interview. You may be preparing the Wrong way or the Old way. 1. Mistake: Not using FIRST Principle Thinking and using Old Age Frameworks Imagine a simple-looking question — Improve Twitter for Blind People Candidate 1 — Why do we want to improve? What metrics are we optimising for, etc etc? These are surface-level questions which you might have seen in some YouTue video. World has move beyond that, it’s 2025 — It’s time for First Principle thinking and Critical Probelm solvingthinking and First First it’s important to see Why People even use Twitter ? If we have to improve Twitter for Blind People, what aspect we...

You are preparing for PM interviews You are doing a lot of Mocks Still, you are not able to crack the PM interview. You may be preparing the Wrong way or the Old way. Not Solving the Question Using the First Principle Imagine a simple-looking question — Design a Birthday app This looks like an easy question, but many people freeze while answering this question. They just start rambling and not thinking from the first principle The top 1% of the Candidates will think this way First Principle Breakdown of the problem You need to break down the problem using first-principle thinking. If you don’t do it, you might miss a lot of important points like employers celebrating employee birthdays, and the Brand celebrating customer’s birthdays correct? If you don’t break it down it will be really difficult to answer like the top 1% Not Showing Strategic Thinking Imagine you get a question like — How would you improve Spotify Questions by Rest 99% What is the Goal of Improving Spotify? What are we...

Interviewer: Suppose you are a YouTube Product Manager, How would you decide the number of Ads shown in between YouTube Shorts? Should we show Ads alternatively one after the other or  Show we show Ads after every 2 shorts or How would you decide what is that number? Is it after every 3 videos, 4 videos or 5 videos? I hope you have understood the question, if not, I will clarify your doubts Shailesh: I will start by asking a few clarifying questions. The first question that comes to my mind - Is this the first time we are showing Ads in the YouTube shorts, what’s the current behavior? Why this question is important is because whatever we do, we need to measure and assess according to the default behavior of the platform. Interviewer: Let’s assume this is the first time we are trying to show Ads in between YouTube shorts. Connect on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyanka-dalmia/ Connect on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/shailesh-sharma/ Book PM Mock Interview Resu...