The next step is an interview with the hiring manager or other product, which lasts approximately 45 minutes. You need to prepare for it seriously: identify the business model, identify competitors, find out what metrics are used and what problems arise. It is also worth considering in advance how to improve the product, and suggest a strategy for its development.
The structure of the product interview: the interviewer talks about himself for five minutes → most of the time is devoted to solving cases and answering questions → the last five minutes are left for your questions.
Typical food interview questions:
"How would you improve our product?" Prepare in advance - conduct a search, use the product, think over a product development strategy. This is an important question.
“What's your favorite app? How would you improve it? " Is a fairly popular question.
"How do you make decisions, define success, resolve conflicts, prioritize tasks?" - a block of popular behavioral questions. Highlight frameworks and use them for responses. For example, speaking about prioritization, you can use the RICE (reach, inspire, confidence, effort) technique.At a food interview, they are sure to give cases and tasks. As a rule, they are associated with popular Google and Facebook products, so you need to understand their metrics and customrs well – this is a good exercise.
When preparing for an interview, think carefully about your questions to the interviewer – ask about strategy and product development. For example, how the company plans to compete with other players. Ask questions about the internal process, ask about the frameworks that are used.
But all this will not set you apart from others. But a really good question would be, for example, this: “I read your financial report, I can draw such and such conclusions from it – what are you planning to do with this situation?”
During the interview, be positive, energetic, and interested. Americans like a candidate to be “bright-eyed”. Even if all this infuriates you – smile, ask questions, nod and say “yes”.
Almost all interview questions are typical, so you need to carefully prepare the structure of the answers; in the States, all framework fans.