I am evaluating Exponent and Product Alliance courses to prepare for the PM interviews at Amazon and Google to be precise. If someone can guide me which one will be better given my profile. Brief about myself: * Total Experience 9 years * Plus MBA from the Ivy League [did after 6 years of work ex] * 4 years of experience in coding * 4 years of experience in TPM [overlapping] * 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst [overlapping] * 3 years of experience as Product Manager in Tech company -- Ad-Tech domain. Did distance Masters in Data Science/AI: I love the field and can build various PoC on my own. I have started the AI and Cognitive RPA Product division in my current company. Even though I am working as PM, I have been out of touch few standard processes/frameworks. My current company is kind of in the growing phase - so don't have that level of processes/framworks and many frameworks are not applicable. So, I need to practice those kinds of questions/frameworks along with tech design -- Good in Data Science and all but have been a long time actually worked with Data Structures or tech architecture development end to end. My finding till now: Exponent: I like their free materials. They have lots of it. But I read at many places - paid courses will have only a little more videos. Though cheaper than Product Alliance. $204 for a one-year subscription [not lifetime] Product Alliance: Not much of free videos. But few videos that they have on youtube - their quality is a Lil higher than the exponent videos. But they are pretty costly - $479 for all the courses -- though, it's for a lifetime. Any help guidance will be appreciated. P.S: I am able to get calls from various good companies. Google I am not touching because don't want to waste my shot. I wasted one with Amazon last year -- feedback was to work a Lil more on system design. #pm #product #productmanager #interviewkickstart #interviewhelp #help #career #guidance #exponent #productalliance #faang #google #amazon #facebook
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I'd not recommend either. As you said, there are plenty of free resources. For mock interviews, you should look for folks on Lewis Lin's free slack channel. Lotsa great people there. If it's just to experience a variety of questions, look at the Product Management books. 1. Cracking the PM Interview 2. Decode and Conquer 3. The Product Management Interview - This is basically a question bank.
Thanks for your inputs. I just joined the slack community :) I have got the kindle edition - cracking the PM interview. I will order the Decode and Conquer too. Mainly, I was looking for a reference of what an ideal answer for a given question should look like - I believe once I start working on the mocks or coordinating with other PMs from the slack community, I will be able to get that too.
No sweat! You'll meet plenty of people on the community who would've tried out these courses. You could pick it up later if someone gives you feedback that you're missing things and the courses would really help.