Googleyness explained by an ex-Google hiring committee PM: five traits, 20 practice questions tied to his answers, and what Google’s own prep pages say.
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Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Cold open (0:00) James: AI has completely unlocked what growth people can do. We no longer need to wait for engineers to build growth experiments. You can ship to production yourself, with permission from your engineers. We’re seeing these full-stack growth hires achieve incredible amounts as […]
The Meta RPM program (Rotational Product Manager) is an 18-month, full-time rotation: a four-week bootcamp, then three product teams, in Menlo Park or New York City. Meta’s page now says it hires people with four-plus years of related experience, and that applications for the 2027 cohort are closed until Summer 2027. At the end, you’re […]
The OpenAI PM interview takes 4 to 10 weeks, depending on whose account you read. You get a recruiter call, a hiring manager conversation, a skills assessment, then a final loop. OpenAI’s own interview guide puts the final loop at 4 to 6 hours with 4 to 6 interviewers over 1 to 2 days, and […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Why PMs should care about interview homework (1:25) Aakash: Sumant, why should PMs even care about interview homework? Sumant: First of all, thanks for inviting me on this podcast, Aakash. Really looking forward to our conversation. Let me answer your question. In the past, and even […]
Amazon interview questions for PMs, by Leadership Principle: how the loop and Bar Raiser work, which questions are reported, and how to build your stories.
The Google APM program, officially the Google Associate Product Manager Program, is Google’s early-career product manager program. Each class has roughly 45 new and recent graduates, and each APM does two one-year rotations on different products. Google says the program began in 2002. The U.S. application window for this cycle ran September 22 to October […]
The Anthropic PM interview stage by stage: reported questions, the AI safety round, Anthropic’s rules on using Claude, and pay from 17 live listings.
A PRD template you can copy: nine sections from problem to impact review, plus the AI PRD block for features where the output changes from run to run.
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube Why PMs should own strategy, not just building (1:49) Aakash: In the era of builder PMs and Claude Code, everybody is focused on how you build with AI. But for my money, a much more effective use of a product manager’s time than trying to become […]