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 […]
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.
What AI product managers earn at OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, from Levels.fyi, plus senior pay at 14 employers and why your level matters more than your company.
You're probably here because of a very specific moment. An engineer shares a path to a config file, a dataset sample, or a log folder on Windows, and you realize you can't quickly inspect it without clicking through a maze of folders. Or you're on a call, someone says “just open it from cmd,” and […]
Check out the conversation on Apple, Spotify and YouTube. Why most AI content misses the leadership tier (01:57) Aakash: I’ve been looking online at all of the content on AI for PMs and I noticed two really big gaps. The first is that most of the content is written for IC PM tasks. How to […]
Most management advice fails product managers because it assumes authority. It assumes the people doing the work report to you, your priorities become their priorities, and a clear org chart solves alignment. In product, none of that is reliably true. A PM works through influence. Engineering may disagree with your sequencing. Design may push back […]
Most PMs don’t lose credibility because they lack ideas. They lose it because their ideas enter the organization and come out late, diluted, buggy, or commercially irrelevant. That gap is where careers stall. I’ve hired and mentored enough PMs to know the pattern. The ones who rise fastest aren’t always the best strategists in the […]
If you use podcasts for learning like background noise, you get inspiration. If you use them like a PM operating system, you advance your career. That distinction matters more now because podcast listening has scaled into a mainstream learning behavior. In 2019, 20 million consumers listened to a podcast for the first time and another […]
Forget the generic advice. If you want to land a top-tier product manager job on LinkedIn, you can’t just passively scroll the Jobs tab. You need a system. As a PM leader who has hired dozens of product managers at companies like Google and various startups, I see the same patterns. The candidates who cut […]
Your first-round Product Manager interview is not a simple screening call. It's a high-stakes audition of your structured thinking, communication clarity, and business acumen. As a PM leader who has hired dozens of product managers at companies like Google, Meta, and unicorn startups, I have seen that this initial conversation is where most candidates are […]