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The Product interview has also become a fascinating game. You need to be able to apply specific case frameworks that you would never use in real life, at breakn
by drc500free 5y ago
The Product interview has also become a fascinating game. You need to be able to apply specific case frameworks that you would never use in real life, at breakneck speeds that you would never work at in real life.
Stumbling into one of these without prep is like showing up for a tryout on a football team and finding out that you'll actually be playing Tecmo Super Bowl with a controller you've never held before. And slowly realizing that all the people interviewing you are fantastic video game players who have never been in the weight room, and they spend all day LARPing.
- paxys 5y ago> And slowly realizing that all the people interviewing you are fantastic video game players who have never been in the weight room, and they spend all day LARPing Are these people not actual product managers at the (presumably successful) company that you want to work for? What is the basis of accusing them of being LARPers?
- R0b0t1 5y agoA bunch of past threads on this: https://killedbygoogle.com/ https://killedbygoogle.com/. Google engineers do not so much solve problems as create them and pretend to solve them.
- nowherebeen 5y agoThis indirectly summarizes the problem with prep industry. When you optimize for interviews, you are going to get a lot of people that are pros at the interview game.
- drc500free 5y agoI guarantee that some of this is un-processed bitterness over my eventual rejection after 3 or 4 rounds of interviewing. :-D This particular FAANG does have a poor track record on products that have any kind of real-world component. I tend to approach products from an issue-spotting, pre-mortem perspective that's focused on mitigating roadblocks. I could tell where I was falling short was that they wanted to hear about how it would scale to billions of users rather than overcoming the 0-to-1, 1-to-10 barriers that I was focused on. The response was always that they could skip those steps because of their massive resources.
- pottertheotter 5y agoDo you have any sources to get an overview of these? Curious to learn about them.
- davidivadavid 5y agoYou can check some mock interviews here: https://www.youtube.com/c/ExponentTV https://www.youtube.com/c/ExponentTV The parent's description of this as LARPing is eerily accurate.
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