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      Product Manager Interview

      Jul 24, 2013
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 1+ week. I interviewed at Google in Jul 2013

      Interview

      To get to the phone interview itself took over 15 days to schedule and I went through 3 recruiters. Pretty long just for a screening phone interview. The position is a tough position to get. Most of the product managers in Google are either former entrepreneurs who got bought out by Google or extremely successful individuals with Harvard or Stanford MBA's. The software engineering position is much easier to acquire in comparison in my humble opinion. I was not fluent on the phone interview and did not answer some of the questions well.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      What are three characteristics necessary for a successful product manager and what are three characteristics of a bad product manager?
      1 Answer

      Question 2

      Name 5 improvements that you can do for Dropbox and why (I named this as one of 3 software products I use regularly)
      Answer question

      Question 3

      Book purchases of books on the best seller list was 20% when done with e-book vs. printed books. Why?
      1 Answer
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