Completely screwed the Product Sense interview at FB for Product Manager. Does any company do experience based interviewing now days? I equate hypothetical questions to slam dunk competitions, and doing a real job to playing a basketball tournament. It's hard to is one to assess the Calibre of the other. Do you know that only Michael Jordan has won a slam dunk competition among the top basketball players, and do you know that no slam dunk winner plays professional basketball. Just because you are good at hypothetical analysis (slam dunk), it's not necessary you will be good at the job (basketball), and vice versa. Thoughts?
Good analogy and probably very true, but do not fight with the system. You can not change it. Just adapt :) I know it sucks
But after going through the FB interview process, it feels like the focus was on hypothetical questions only. Does Uber operate the same way? I have an interview with them next week.
Blah, learn to interview for FB. Anyone that wants to work at Amazon much to clear Amazon bar and learn LP. No excuses
But clearing LP is all experienced based. Not hypothetical.
If you can’t handle hypotheticals, how can we judge your ability to handle new features? We ask both and expect a candidate to have a track record and be able to come up with new material.
Design a new FB product for autistic people. You have 5 minutes. Go ..
A blank web page that shows only one feed item at a time with no other distractions. 4.5 minutes left for questions.
In the real world, you won't be required to go through this process in this way. I am a top performer at Amazon, and before that at Google and a startup. You give me a few hours to walk around talking to people, looking at data, doing some quant and quality analysis, and I'll nail it. I like Amazon's approach of a writing sample that gives you a hypothetical situation. If you don't trust me, make me do it sitting in your office. But doing this "give me a min to brainstorm" seems pretty ridiculous and disconnected from reality
Monopolies don’t have to contend with reality.
Examples for a hypothetical question? Wondering if it's behavioral - what you would do? kind or the design _____ for _____ kind.
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Everyone's going to bash you here. Only those who have cleared it (and who have other work experience for perspective) will know how much of BS it is... Especially when you have a 25 year old kid asking you to create "a new way to communicate in the workplace"... I've attended a few hypothetical ones, they are far more draining than hard technical ones. Frankly have zero regrets about those.
^ this.
Wait... only Michael Jordan among the top players? I think you’re in need of some fact checking. Kobe Bryant, Dominique Wilkins, Vince Carter, Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin. Last I checked these are clearly among the top basketball players of their respective times.
Agreed. These need to be a checkmark not a make or break factor.