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LinkedIn Product Manager interview review
- jeffehobbs 15y agoInteresting account, but: I wouldn't write about this. I could see this being used against you.
- teaspoon 15y agoWhy work for a company that would "use" a dry, factual account of their interview process against you?
- alttab 15y agoWhy hire someone you can't trust to keep their mouth shut?
- teaspoon 15y agoI don't know where you're getting that LinkedIn asked Jason to keep his mouth shut about anything.
- biot 15y agoI wouldn't go on a date with a woman who blogged a review of every date. At the same time, it'd be awkward if one had to ask their dates in advance not to publish a detailed account online.
- teaspoon 15y agoIt would also be awkward if an interviewee wanted to come back to my apartment for drinks. Interviewing and dating are two different social situations with different codes of etiquette.
- alttab 15y agoPosting to a blog about a first round of interviews while you are still going through them can easily be viewed as premature, immature, and potentially dangerous for the company (but moreso for the reputation of the poster). Now, if he had been hired, worked hard for a couple of years and was promoted from within the interview story could be considered relevant advice. However it is too early for anyone including himself to glene any pro/cons out of it, and instead the blog post looks like a kamikaze mission to the top of the hill to let his buddies know where the enemies are hiding.
- rhizome 15y agoPosting to a blog about a first round of interviews while you are still going through them can easily be viewed as premature, immature, and potentially dangerous for the company I have read several version of this comment elsewhere in the story, is there any basis for this attitude besides paranoia? Have you ever seen something like this be "dangerous" for a company in real life, or is it completely imaginary? You use the word "easily," so I'm just wondering if it's so common that I just don't get out enough.
- biot 15y agoAn interview is a private interaction; making it public is what some see as poor judgment. If it were the company blogging about every candidate they interviewed, I suspect that would be received in a similarly negative light.
- tricolon 15y agoBecause they might pay well?
- stfu 15y ago"The interview wrapped up with him asking me to estimate the annual revenue of McDonalds." Is stuff like this becoming the norm now? This looks a lot like the notorious "estimation" questions in consulting company interviews. Especially because it seems to be taken completely out of context and with very little relation to the actual job/company.
- zmitri 15y agoLots of companies will put you under an NDA if you interview with them. Be careful talking about explicit questions.
- thwarted 15y agoThis link has a target="_blank" on it. Is this some new option submitters have?
- thwarted 15y agoWell, the downvotes got me to investigate further. It seems it was the Chrome extension JSON Inspector ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfnjijpckfecpgchobgcfndicenjldoe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfnjijpckfecpgchob... ) that was inserting the target="_blank" only on this page for the article's link.
- sk5t 15y agoInteresting... college seniors, recent grads, and grad students have enough experience to be Product Managers at LNKD? Where do their junior analysts come from?
- heyadayo 15y agoJason: Take this down. You will almost certainly not get the job if your interviewers find this, for almost any tech company of scale. Especially: "If I am selected for more interviews, I will definitely write about them."
- ecaron 15y agoI really don't understand why Jason should take this down. I'd never look down on a candidate for blogging about the interview process with my company.
- larrys 15y agoCompare the upside of writing about his experience with the potential downside. I don't think many companies are going to say "hey that's great that he did that" and it will help him land the job. But it is entirely likely that any number of companies that he might interview with would be turned off by it and it could cost him the job.
- teaspoon 15y agoFor the author, weeding out employers with that culture might be an upside. It depends what he's looking for.
- biot 15y agoAssuming names and other identifying details were omitted, would you think it's fine for a company to blog about every candidate they interviewed?
- stfu 15y agoMaybe he just doesn't care/has already something else lined up. A friend of mine goes to interviews quite frequently without being the slightest interested in changing his job. His idea is to just follows some practice-makes-perfect motto - almost like dating. But it has of cause its downsides and especially the scheduling seems often to be the ticky issue.
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- tzs 15y ago> After a brief greeting, the interviewer asked me what is the most interesting product that's out there right now on web. I made my first mistake here and answered, Facebook. I had prepared for interviewing about LinkedIn product and set myself up to be interviewed about Facebook for next 40 minutes. That wasn't a mistake. The answer you think you should have given, "LinkedIn", would have been a mistake. That's probably the answer everybody else gave, and tells the interviewer "I'm here to say whatever I think will make you like me most, so let's start out with the improbable claim that your company is the most interesting thing on the web".
- vicngtor 15y agoYeah I am pretty sure you are not allowed to post this because you would probably have signed an NDA before your interview. You have to respect the people at LinkedIn who put in a lot of effort to design this interview process by not leaking it out.
- rhizome 15y agoDoes that really happen? I have never signed an NDA prior to a job interview.
- deepGem 15y agoJust a tip - How to answer the McD question: McD are spread worldwide - so assume some figures for the leading consumer nations. For ex - 70% of US population, 50% of Japanese population etc consume at least 1 McD burger/meal a day. Now compute the average price of a McD burger/meal. Multiply the two and you have average revenues per day. Average price * no of burgers/meals sold per day = Average revenues. Average revenues per day * 30 * 12 = annual revenues. Follow the same formula for all product lines and add them up. Hope this helps.
- csmt 15y agoI am curious why would you blog about an interview. Most companies ask you to sign an NDA before the interview. Isn't posting a blog about the interview a violation of NDA?