Day to Day and Entry Level Responsibilities Questions
Understand the routine operational and entry level duties you will perform and what readiness looks like in the first weeks and months. This includes daily tasks and cadences, monitoring and triage activities, typical incident or project workflows, balance between routine maintenance and higher value work, on call or shift expectations, typical workload and team capacity, mentorship and learning structure, and concrete examples of tasks a junior hire would be expected to do and how performance and productivity are expected to grow over time.
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A stakeholder gives a vague request: 'make onboarding better' and two stakeholders disagree on direction (one wants simpler UI, the other wants educational content). As a junior PM, describe how you'd uncover the real problem, frame hypotheses, run quick qualitative and quantitative research, and align stakeholders on a prioritized set of next steps.
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Describe a repeatable process a junior PM can use to triage customer feedback and bug reports coming from support, sales, and user research. Include steps for validation, severity categorization, routing to engineering, communicating status to reporting parties, and when to escalate to senior PM or leadership.
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Create a 3-month mentorship and learning plan for an entry-level PM on your team. Include weekly activities, shadow sessions (engineering, design, support), recommended readings or courses, milestones to show progress, and how the mentor and manager will assess readiness to take independent ownership of a feature.
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Sales and Support have submitted ten urgent feature requests while your current roadmap focuses on a long-term platform initiative. As a junior PM, explain how you would intake these requests, evaluate them, communicate trade-offs to stakeholders, and propose a temporary plan that preserves relationships without derailing strategic work.
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Mid-sprint an unexpected critical incident requires engineering to divert 40% of capacity into remediation. As the junior PM, explain how you'd renegotiate scope with the engineering manager, communicate changes to stakeholders, reprioritize work, and minimize long-term impact on roadmap and team morale.
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