Hi you, Last night, I was in a old, rustic arts museum in south of London and happen to run into Ricky Ponting and Surya Kumar Yadav. Quite a company they were. …

Product metrics questions are common in PM interviews. In this short blog, I will cover how to answer metrics question in PM interviews and share a sample question and answer. To answer metrics question you can use common design thinking approach — go broad to go narrow: Ask clarifying questions…

Following up on the first part of Product Strategy question, in this blog, I will answer a sample strategy question. Question — You’re the PM of Google Maps tasked with presenting a 3 year strategy to Sundar. What strategy will you present? Approach to answer: - Ask clarifying questions to understand…

“When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you” Lolly Daskal. I’ve worked alongside some exceptional PMs during my career at Google and startups. For a long time, I’ve maintained a list of things that great PMs don’t do and that I…

Summary if you don’t want to read through the details: A good answer includes: why (strategic insights), what (product vision), and how (supplementary details). It’s important to remember not to make it a product design question — focussing too much on features, metrics etc. The most important thing is to…

(Plus a blog that I didn’t publish. I wrote it when I Covid19 stole the last quarter of my MBA school. This was in my draft from 2020, but I never pressed “publish”. Doing that today!) I was never charmed by MBA in the true sense. In the last 2…

Today when leaving the home for the office, I said, “this day would just be over in a moment”. And that’s how it should have been. …

One of the challenges in PM roles is how to find time for long-term, valuable work items. If you don’t exert control on the calendar, one tends to get sucked into a barrage of urgent items that needs our attention but doesn’t result in long-term value. One senior PM at…

I landed upon Design Thinking frameworks a bit late in my career when I was at Kellogg School of Management and attending “Design for Delight” session by Intuit PMs. I found it extremely powerful for product managers. From then on at Kellogg, I attended multiple courses and workshops to get…