Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Decision Making and Trade Offs
Covers how candidates make difficult decisions when facing competing priorities, limited resources, ambiguous information, or stakeholder disagreement. Interviewers expect a clear recounting of a real situation, the options considered, the criteria and frameworks used to evaluate trade offs, how risks and benefits were weighed, who was consulted, and how the decision was communicated and executed. Candidates should describe measurable outcomes, lessons learned, and what they would do differently. This topic assesses judgment, prioritization, structured thinking, stakeholder management, and the ability to reflect on trade off outcomes.
Metrics and Success Measurement
Defining meaningful program and product metrics, translating business objectives into measurable outcomes, selecting and tracking key performance indicators such as adoption, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction, and establishing measurement plans and reporting cadence. Assess the candidate's ability to choose actionable metrics, set targets, instrument and interpret data, and use metrics to drive decisions and transparency.
Prioritization and Stakeholder Alignment
Covers frameworks and practices for prioritizing work, aligning stakeholders, and allocating limited resources across features projects and operational needs. Topics include impact versus effort and weighted scoring models, RICE and similar frameworks, sequencing dependent work, handling competing or conflicting priorities, negotiating trade offs with business and engineering partners, creating governance and escalation paths, communicating deprioritization decisions, and measuring outcomes to validate prioritization. Senior assessments include strategic resource allocation across teams and portfolios and techniques for building cross functional consensus.
Customer and User Focus & Ownership
Ability to think about end-user impact, taking ownership of problems, understanding business context, and going beyond requirements to deliver value. Examples of when you cared about user experience or business outcomes.