When interviewing candidates for product management roles, many candidates now use the same materials to prepare, such as G cheat sheets, guidebooks, and more. What are some nontraditional questions you like to ask to catch them off-guard, yet draw meaningful insights into into how they will perform on your team?
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Director of Product Management8 months ago
From a previous company's interview training I completed, one of the most impactful questions I learned to ask is what the candidate's favorite parts of their current role are, followed by asking their least favorite parts. This set of questions often highlights their values, and helps gauge whether what they enjoy will be a fit with the role expectations. VP of Product Management in Software8 months ago
Some of the questions that have been meaningful for me to ask are:1) What are some of your favorite apps? Why? Pick one and tell me how you'd improve it? Why? What metric(s) would that move? Why are those important? These help me in understanding if the person leans in to keep track of the latest / greatest stuff, how they relate it to driving business value and customer delight
2) Let's say you're given a goal to drive more frequent usage for a airline app. What are ways you would do this? Before candidates jump in to give answers, it's helpful to see if they ask 'why', and then relate that why to blue-sky ideas (thinking big), and then how they'd practically pick something and launch it in the market to test