Execution/Analytical Product Interviews: Common Mistakes that’ll get you rejected

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Published 2022-03-05
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All Comments (18)
  • @enzime321
    I am an over thinker and a half. I stumbled across your video with a Facebook interview set for next week and I assure you ..I would have mentioned engagement in the most linear way. I appreciate content that stresses the wrong approach more than the ones emphasizing the "correct".
  • @BenLoSasso
    Such great videos! Great advice, I love this channel.
  • @airliu1
    Awesome advice. Would love to see a “fail” video for “leadership and drive “
  • @ross2289
    This is my new favorite PM channel! Two questions: (1) I recently got feedback about my interview, telling me I didn't define the product mission clearly. Can you please advise what is considered a mission, and what's a good way to define it? (I suppose we shouldn't just refer to the company's general mission). (2) I find it pretty challenging to go through everything I want within 30 minutes. For example, sometimes just thinking about enough metrics might take too much precious time. How do you know when you have "enough" metrics to move on to the next stage in the structure?
  • @balaapsrtc
    @Dianna Yau, Could you elaborate more on the mistake about choosing engagement? I often struggle with this section.
  • @ dianna yau Your channel is really helpful and I hope to see more useful videos like this. I want to see how you tackle execution question for a product that does not exist today - for example, As a PM, if you have to define the success metrics for product for LGBTQ community, how would you got about it? Naturallly, if i get this question, i would talk about this like a design question first on users, pain points and solutions then move to defining success. But from a time perspective, it is a lot of time and I do not know what is the best way to balance time and the right approach.
  • @diannayau
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  • @ashwinkumar8245
    Thanks, Dianna! Have a question. For FB dating or any dating product what are the two sides of the marketplace? Could it be people who are reaching out to a match and people who are responding (match itself). But then the match could also be reaching out to other people so it wont be a true MECE. Would love to get your thoughts.
  • @mag3351
    Could you elaborate on how you would specify a "meaning conversation"?
  • @soultrip698
    How can we know what type of metric frequency (by day/month/year) and what type (numbers/%/average) we should use? And the reasoning behind it?
  • @aliishaq11
    So what would the two sides of the user ecosystem be for a product like Facebook? Would it be people who post and people who react/consume posts?
  • @bakshi_varun
    Dianna, how do you justify choosing Adoption v/s Engagement or vice versa for a specific product? What would your rationale be?
  • @user-wu2gz3gq3o
    great video, just a suggestion but recommend to remove the background guitar noise because its tricky to focus on the content with it.