CareerCup Cracking The Pm Interview: How To Land A Product Manager Job In Technology Paperback – 2 December 2013

Good book for PM interview.

This books is primarily intended for people to get a sense of what to expect from PM interviews at top companies in Silicon Valley (The author is a very highly regarded consultant in Silicon Valley) As such you should be careful about what value you can get if you are in India (living and working here) I would recommend this book to Indians in the following two scenarios:(a) This is a must have if you are going to interview for a PM role with a top silicon valley company, for e.g. Google's Bangalore or Hyderabad office.(b) This may not be useful if you are interviewing for Indian companies. But you should still buy and read it, because you will learn a lot about how the top tech companies in the world approach product management as a discipline. The reason top valley companies look for these things is because they are relevant to do a PM job well. Which means we can learn and apply these principles in our day to day job, even though it is very unlikely any Indian company is likely to look for this level of depth.The book itself is structured brilliantly. I cannot say enough good things about this book.

The frameworks have been explained well, relevant examples and concepts have been covered

Thanks Gayle and Jackie for writing this wonderful book. The structure, questions, concepts and answers are detailed and gives us a thought process to crack the toughest Product Management questions. There is also a good mix of technical, non technical and design questions.I was recently able to crack one of the top Product Management interviews and got the offer. Many of the questions asked in the interview questions was related to concepts in the book. And I was able to relate it.Thanks a lot for putting up this together.

Wish I had this book earlier, stumbled upon this now. It explains the PM role and expectations in detail. Talks about how the role varies in different orgs. It speaks about how to gather the right exp, insights from very senior PMs, how interviews are conducted, how a resume and cover letter should look, guides how to handle personal, behavioural, estimation, coding and product related questions. This is a treasure trove, thank you.

Book talks about the myths, the experiences, role differences, career, behavioral-estimation-coding question, also about important aspects on pitching the CV. Overall the book touches various topics which are really helpful in understanding a product managers job. Highly recommended. Very simple language used in the book, easy to understand. As always delivery from Amazon was prompt, book binding and paper quality is good.

Its tell you want it is and all. Good for overall weight

The book was overall good. It makes you familiarise with the following:1. The types of questions you should practice before going for a PM interview.2. What your approach should be3. How you will be evaluated4. Expectations in case of certain companies like Google, looking for Software engg experienceBut here, I have a few points, which could have been better1. The book only familiarises you without going very deep into these topics2. It lacked content on Product strategy which is nowadays becoming an important assessment interview round3. It doesn't touch upon how interviews might vary across company types and sizes, the experience of the person which are very relevant during the interviews.But overall the book gives you good content to start preparing for interviews. The person would need to practice and read from different resources I believe.