Microsoft Product Manager interview expectations

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Mar 29 13 Comments

I am appearing for PM onsites this week. Product Manager, but not Technical Product Manager.
I completed 2 rounds, with director and with another Product Manager. I was asked in my first round was product strategy questions in which the person wanted a direct answer without me thinking about users or pain points. Then he asked me a few technical and coding questions, which I tried but I don’t think I did very well.
2nd round was a typical PM questions round like behavioral, product design, metrics etc.

I was not prepared for technical. As per videos on Youtube I didn’t expect these to be technical interviews at all. When I had asked the recruiter, he said I should not expect technical questions.
I have a round with a developer next.
What should I do? 🥺 Is this common for MSFT PM interviews?

#tech #pm #product #Microsoft

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      OP
      Design and architecture I can do and yes its fair game but coding questions I didn’t expect
      Mar 29
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      tpmingg
      Wtf asking coming questions is weird. I was a developer before but i have not been coding for half a decade. Don't understand how it can be relevant
      Mar 29
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    I too am interviewing at MS. I think all PM roles there are technical to some extent. And they grilled me a lot of deep technical details in first round itself . But it varies team by team no standard intervirw process at microsft for pm.

    What ms expects in a pm I think Is a good developer who has bit of soft skills.unlike other companies.
    Mar 29 1
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    hwpm4lyfe

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    hwpm4lyfe
    If you applied for a PM role with a SW product or job description, what else would you expect? I've heard any tech PM role will have coding questions...that's just common sense
    Mar 29 1
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    wave567

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    wave567
    That’s interesting I just had a PM interview too and did not gave coding questions. Did you state anywhere in your resume you had coding skills?
    Apr 1 1
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    Surprisingly the rest of the interviews were not technical. So we’ll see what happens 🤞🏻
    Mar 30 1
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      pm69

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      pm69
      Cool all the best. How many rounds did you have in total in the on-site.

      I have three lined up for on-site. And they gave me a case study before hand to prepare for.
      Mar 30