Product Manager Interviews: Take Home Assignments in 8 Steps!
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Nowadays product manager interviews include take home assignments. These assignments ask you to solve product problems and give you lots of data to analyze. If you're stuck, come learn the 8 steps to tackle these assignments so you can get hired!
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Great video, Dianna! You exhaustively covered all product interview categories with this video in a subtle manner from Goal setting & Metrics to Strategy, and Designing solutions. Thank you!!
Yah usually these take home exams cover a lot of ground!
Very very useful. Taking an example and solving it in the video is what makes it very helpful. Thank you! Very much appreciate your work. :)
Thanks a lot Dianna.
OMG! I’m so glad you made this video! This has been an issue
This is so so good!!
Hi Dianna, thanks for sharing this.
Thank you it was very useful
Thank you for the effort making the video! Just wondering, Is the data you’re analyzing available somewhere online? 😊
Incredible stuff! You've helped me a lot! Thanks! =]
Extremely relevant and helpful video for the interviews. Can you help me understanding enterprise to enterprise business model and product management for the same? any reference links to the relevant material would also help. Thank you!
very insightful information.... 👍👍😀
Do you have any examples of what the final written deliverable should look like?
Hey Dianna, your videos are incredibly helpful. Can you also do a strategy interview video with an example? Like, "should Amazon build a smartphone" or "should Netflix go into gaming"?
Yess! I actually have one recorded already, just need to edit it and it’ll be up in 1-2 weeks! It’s should Amazon build a smartphone
Do you have a sample document? Like a format of the write-up or anything you can share?
Hi :) thank you for such helpful step by step guide! What if you are given no data at all and asked to put together a "high level" strategy together. Is it better to refer to various data points as "x" & "y" when you are presenting or make an educated guess by researching the market/industry?
Great question! You can do your own market “googling” or user research by interviewing people to collect data
What happened if they don't give you any data? They just want to improve UX of a flow
Which companies conduct this kind of interviews? Perhaps, I have an opportunity to shine ...
Many companies nowadays! But it’ll usually be a take home assignment AND live interview, not just take home
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:00 📝 *Introduction to Take-Home Assignments*
- Take-home assignments are increasingly common in product manager interviews.
- These assignments assess your skills and can be time-consuming.
- This video will provide eight steps to ace take-home assignments.
01:12 🎯 *Step 1: Understanding the Goal*
- Understand the company, its products, and business model.
- Identify the explicit goal given, like reducing churn or increasing revenue.
- Connect the goal to the company's broader business objectives.
03:01 📊 *Step 2: Analyzing Data*
- Analyze data in various forms, including raw data, tables, and user feedback.
- Use specific questions to guide your data analysis.
- Create charts, graphs, or group user feedback into themes for insights.
05:29 ⚙️ *Step 3: Prioritizing Problems*
- Identify and prioritize the most critical problems based on your analysis.
- Prioritize problems that have the largest impact on the initial goal.
- In the example, prioritize customer satisfaction for retention.
06:34 📅 *Step 4: Creating a Strategy*
- Develop a plan of attack (strategy) to address the prioritized problems.
- Consider the impact vs. effort for each strategy.
- Build a roadmap for implementing the chosen strategies.
10:17 📈 *Step 5: Measuring Success*
- Define success metrics, starting with the main goal (e.g., increasing revenue).
- Break down metrics further to track strategy-specific success.
- Metrics might include click-through rates, customer satisfaction scores, etc.
11:54 💡 *Step 6: Identifying Pain Points*
- Analyze the pain points experienced by different user stakeholders.
- Consider pain points for both tour organizers and customers.
- Understand the root causes of problems you aim to solve.
13:14 🛠️ *Step 7: Proposing Solutions*
- Develop two to three solutions for each strategy.
- Prioritize solutions based on impact and feasibility.
- Create a roadmap for implementing selected solutions.
15:40 📝 *Step 8: Writing the Assignment*
- Structure your assignment into ten sections.
- Include an executive summary, business and goal context, data insights, prioritized problems, strategy, success metrics, MVP solutions, prior solutions, optional mocks or wireframes, and a roadmap.
- Make it easy for readers to understand your findings and proposed solutions.
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