For the past 8 months, I was working as a SWE at an incredibly toxic startup. My manager was some ex-HR lead from Accenture who doesn't actually know how to code and studied psych in school. Despite not understanding the complexity of the projects I was working on, he would constantly berate me for missing his arbitrary deadlines. I was constantly miserable and borderline suicidal as I felt like nothing I did was good enough. I joined this startup as I was told I would be able to switch to a PM role once I helped build a few things to work through our backlog as the SWE team was extremely understaffed. Within a few months, it become clear there was no actual intention to ever let me switch into a product role.
I've known for a while I wanted to move into product management but was struggling to get interviews without prior PM experience. I was so desperate that I actually almost paid $5k for Product School. But thanks to Blind, I was able to find kind strangers who mentored me, referred me, and showed me interview prep resources that cost a fraction of what Product School does and are probably much better. I am extremely excited to announce I just landed a PM offer at Twitter that pays $115k more than my toxic SWE job and can't wait to tell my manager I'm quitting Monday. Thank you so much Blind for helping me in this journey!!
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In terms of prepping, read Cracking the PM Interview if you haven't already to get a general lay of the land and understanding of what sort of questions to expect. The book is dated but still helpful.
The resource that a lot of PMs recommended and was the most helpful for me personally was the Product Alliance courses. There are three courses: one which helps you better package yourself with resume templates and referral strategies if you don't have existing connections, one which teaches you how to answer just about any interview question, and then one course which gives you company specific study guides and most asked questions for the top 20 companies. Two of the questions I got asked were listed on their Twitter Questions You are Most Likely to Get Asked 2021 doc.
If you are looking for mock interview partners, check out Lewis Lin and Product School's Slack communities (both free to join). If you are looking for a PM from a specific company you are interviewing with to mock interview you, IGotAnOffer offers the best rate on quality coaches.
Those are pretty much all the resources I used. Let me know if you have any other questions not covered above. Happy to give back to the Blind community that has helped me so much :)