Tech IndustrySep 23, 2019

Pivotal Product Manager interview

Asking for a friend. My friend reached to the final round of interview (on-site) and was only told she'll be paired with current product managers to go through a Product Management exercise for 1.5 hours (whiteboard, etc.) But did not provide further details. Has anyone recently gone through the interview or has any info that can be shared? Shes trying to understand what to focus on.

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Oath Atinlay2 Sep 23, 2019

“Friend”🙄

Capital One BeDo22 OP Sep 23, 2019

*close friend.

Oath Atinlay2 Sep 23, 2019

Like split personality close?

Tenable jazzyjef Sep 23, 2019

Previously it was 60m, so perhaps they’ve changed it. But it’s basically, “we have this problem in our office. Your job is objective 1 and 2. Ask us any questions you like, with the goal of ending up at a backlog” All you have to do is focus on product basics: - who are my users - what do they need - what do I want to test with an mvp? What is the minimum I can do to test that? Etc - how can I solve this problem most effectively? Things like “we should build an iPhone app” are an immediate fail. If you ask a few questions and then conclude that a mobile app is the way to go, that conclusion can still be totally ok. Helpful?

Capital One BeDo22 OP Sep 23, 2019

Makes sense and this is helpful. Thank you so much!

Pivotal Axe Cap Sep 24, 2019

This is still the format

Pivotal Axe Cap Sep 26, 2019

Nope not a pm, 1 YOE

Pivotal NdFt74 Oct 3, 2019

This is still how it's done

Pivotal wlbwlb Oct 8, 2019

pm? yoe & tc?

Pivotal NdFt74 Oct 8, 2019

Yes, 3 at pvtl, 166 tc