Product Leaders in Transition

Are you ready when the interview gets to the part when you get to ask questions?

Glassdoor sifted through tens of thousands of interview reviews to find out some of the most common interview questions candidates get asked during recent interviews.

After a frustrating job, some wonder if they have what it takes to be a product manager. Use this spreadsheet to profile your skills, education, and interest in 30 key activities for product managers.

Nailed It! is the playbook for interviewing. Consider this: you will be asked about your weaknesses. Before your interviews, profile your weaknesses—we all have them. Then during the interview, choose from your mental inventory of weaknesses to identify the one or two that are least damaging for this position. Also interesting: most people simply do not prepare for their interviews. Nailed It gives you the playbook—step 1, 2, 3. Despite the annoyance of typos and grammar errors, the book is easy to read and apply.

Reconsider your relationship to your company. Become a free agent. Actually, you already are a free agent. Your company can fire you at any time. And you have the ability to look elsewhere any time.

Here are some random DO’s and DON’Ts from the candidate’s point of view.

Employers do not hire you because you need a job; employers hire you to solve their problems.