30-Day Google Product Supervisor Interview Prep Information

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

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

Better of luck and hope the research information helps together with your product administration interviews!

Lewis

Day 1. Getting acquainted with Google’s PM Interview

Duties

Objective

Know the scope and nature of the Google PM interview.

Day 2. Getting acquainted with the product design interview

Background Studying

• Learn in regards to the CIRCLES design technique 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
• Greatest 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.
• Follow two components 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 technique

Train

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

• Disney Expertise with Your Cellphone
• Enhancing Google Hangouts

Objectives

• Like a wine connoisseur, detect and deduce how your response differs from the pattern. As you change into attuned to the variations, your personal 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 technique

Train

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

1. Enhancing Google Play Retailer
2. Monetizing Google Maps
3. Cell App Design for Nest
4. Favourite Product
5. Favourite Web site
6. Folks You Might Know
7. Automobile 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 technique to enhance on a regular basis gadgets. Listed below are some design issues you may ponder:

• How can sidewalks be improved?
• How can road lamps be more practical?
• Construct a product to unravel the canine poop downside.
• What new merchandise can stop flat tires in vehicles or bikes?
• What innovation could make gardening much less of a chore?
• What modern 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 follow companion for product design

Train

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

Publish a request for a companion or companions within the #req-practice-ptr channel.

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

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

* Repeat the companion follow exercise as typically as you desire to. The most effective candidates could have practiced no less than 20 product design circumstances.

Objective

Grasp the product design interview. It’s the primary cause why candidates fail the Google PM interview. In case you have dedicated your self to considerate follow, you need to be an professional in relation to tackling product design questions. Use the rules beneath to gauge your product design proficiency:

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

Day 15. Getting acquainted with the metrics interview

Background Studying

• Learn in regards to the AARM framework in Decode and Conquer.
• Learn metrics examples in Decode and Conquer to get acquainted with 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 Help Tickets

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

• Most Necessary Metric: Two-Sided Market
• Most Necessary Metric: Cell App
• Most Necessary 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 companion:

• Purchasing Cart Conversions
• Cell App Rankings
• Reddit Posts

Objectives

Acquire proficiency in brainstorming a whole and exhaustive record of points when troubleshooting a metric.

Day 17 and 18. Placing the metrics downside collectively

Workouts

Full one instance a day for the subsequent seven days, each by yourself and together with your follow companion, 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 acquainted with 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. Learn to setup estimation questions utilizing concern timber.
3. Learn to make assumptions.
4. Strive the next estimation questions:
   1. Automobiles in Seattle
   2. How Many Google Apps Customers
   3. Income from YouTube Pink

Day 20. Follow estimation questions

Duties

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

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

Objectives

Grasp estimation questions. Not solely is response high quality necessary, but in addition it is best to full most estimation questions in about 10 to fifteen minutes.

Day 22. Study 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 widespread technique query varieties.
• Work out the right way to method technique questions utilizing frameworks.
• See how the frameworks are utilized to widespread PM technique questions.

Day 23. Follow technique questions

Duties

Follow the next technique questions, on this e book, both by yourself or together with your follow companion:

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

Objectives

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

Day 24. Study 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. current merchandise.
• Work out the right way to method pricing questions utilizing frameworks.
• See the right way to apply pricing frameworks to in style questions.

Day 25. Follow pricing questions

Duties

Follow the next pricing questions, both by yourself or together with your follow companion:

• Pricing New Merchandise
  • Google Driverless Automobile Pricing
  • Google and Teleportation
• Pricing Present Merchandise
  • AWS Value 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 “Successful 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
• Follow and get suggestions out of your follow companion

Objectives

Whereas Google has an affinity for case questions, it is best to spend a while making ready for conventional and behavioral questions. Google interviewers often ask conventional icebreaker questions like “Inform me about your self” and “Why Google?” Nonetheless, behavioral interview questions like “Inform me a time whenever 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 Accustomed to Technical Interview Questions

Duties

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

Objectives

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

Day 28. First Strive 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

Strive 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 Strive 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 follow exercise, as essential.

Objectives

Construct confidence tackling technical interview questions.

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