I heard that meta has a good onboarding boot camp etc. does google have something similar? How does the first month look like at Google as a PM?
Did you already get an offer? What was your interview experience like?
I don't have experience with Meta's bootcamp but here's my experience as a recent noogler. You do the technical immersion as mentioned. It's fairly generic but it'll give you an idea about processes tied to experimentation and product launches. There's a brief PM onboarding as well, but it's more career focused and won't help you a lot when onboarding to your team. In my case, my manager and tech lead put together an onboarding plan (talk to x y z people, learn about the team, what tech/products the team works on) and I worked through that with the tech lead. They gave me a starter project, something that I would focus on for the first month. Later on, my org had a business-focused orientation but by the time it happened I already found the info elsewhere. Overall, I wasn't impressed with the onboarding experience, it depended a lot on good support from individual folks (such as my tech lead who did a great job) and my scrappiness.
Lol yours sounds even more structured than mine. GTI was an absolute waste of time for me and I learned nothing since my PA process was different. Was basically just thrown into the deep end and expected to swim.
You have 3 weeks of technical immersion training which is basically a group project w other new hires. Then you jump right into your teams work. (I’m not a PM I’m a SWE but started in the same cohort w a PM). It’s nothing like metas boot camp, in metas bootcamp(as of 2.5 years ago, at least for SWEs) you could sit in different teams and pick your team that way.
Any idea about the group projects? Are they just dummy projects to onboard or actual projects linked to teams?
Dummy project and you do a presentation at the end. The people in your group are not necessarily people you will work w in the future either