Just wanted to post here about my experience interviewing for product positions over the last several months, Recruiter screen ghost - Spotify Houzz Quad pay Boku Adyen Splunk Marqueta Indeed First round reject - Tik Tok Amazon (1st time, ghosted) Oracle Blue Vine Full loops - Facebook (3 times, I had 2 hires and 1 strong no hire the third time) Amazon (2nd time, they thought I don’t have enough experience after loop) Twilio Varo Bolt Finix Ring Central Expedia DocuSign Zoom Chime Interviews I dropped out of - Ring Central Expedia (down-leveled role) Rex Convey (They got acquired recently) Companies that never gave me a call but would have loved to interview - Stripe Apple Square Google Netflix Atlassian Offers - Expedia, Seattle - 185k TC first year Zoom, Remote - 267k TC first year DocuSign, Seattle - 267k TC first year SFO - 304k TC first year Current TC - 190k, YOE - 5.5 (overall SWE + product) This isn’t a poll. I’m going ahead with DocuSign. Prep: 1. Cracking the PM interview 2. Decode & Conquer 3. At least 50+ mocks using try exponent, Lewis Lin’s slack community 4. Dedicated mock partner (every alternate day 3 times a week) 5. Created an exhaustive map of all experiences to behavioral areas - failure, disagreement, initiative etc 6. There was a time where I didn’t get any offers after 6 months of interviewing. So took a break, identified my areas of improvement to be - articulation & strategy. Focused on those areas. 7. Came up with my own frameworks for prioritization and execution questions. 8. Bi-monthly check in with my coach to make sure I’m going in the right direction. Nothing beats practice and mock interviews. unfortunately, PM interviews have also become like LC grind. FB offered me to do another loop in 3 months, but I’m not going to do it and make be target for L6 roles 3 years later. Coinbase gave me a call after DocuSign offer, but again not doing it. Posting it here for the hustlers who haven’t seen success so far, especially with not a lot of exposure around PM interviews and offers.
Congratulations! You will go places
Congrats and thx for sharing your data
Good choice .. and congrats !
Wow, I was exhausted after giving 4 interview loops, can't imagine giving these many.
Congratulations!!
Woohoo 🎉
Be proud and congrats ! I did it after close to 2 years :) . It’s a subjective interview and highly crowded place were a lot of diversity hires happens ! Only so much you can work and in the end it’s just some talent and a lot of luck :) I gave more than 11 onsite :D … 3 gave verbal offer and then ended up ghosting or with some bs…
How did you cope with that
Congratulations on multiple offers, and best of luck 🦦
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Congrats!! You earned this.