What questions are asked for a product mgmt interview? How can one become a PM without tech background? I have product strategy background. In interviews i am able to ace product sense / product strategy questions but when it comes to tech, unable to show the required tech acumen (due to lack of actual exposure to it).
Should I just stay put in product / business strategy roles or move into product mgmt?
Reasons for moving into PM - want career and monetary growth, build tech stuff and not just strategise stuff. Have 6 yrs experience (2 yrs pre MBA data analytics+ 2 yrs business strategy + 2 yrs product strategy).
Just curious- How do you have Product strategy experience without PM experience?
And how does your role work if you are only involved in strategy and not in execution?
If you want to build digital products , you should have some technical knowledge , not because you have to understand the code but rather because you have to understand when the developers are highlighting an issue, giving you timelines , discussing or suggesting better solutions because the best insights comes from the eng team. It’s pretty basic actually there are few core concepts that you if you read about you should be in a position to start. For eg: how a request works , what are APIs , different errors , basic JSON structure , types of data , how a DB works etc.
You generally need not do coding as PM.... but, you should be able to understand how tech works... like - there is a onboarding form to get user details. we need to understand what happens once a user submits the form. Few things that happen are - an entry will be created in database with the given user details, an email will be sent confirmed that user is onboarded, a SMS will be sent to the user here, we should understand how the email and SMS be sent, are we sending or is there any third party tool we are using to send....
some tech skills we should have is accessing database - where we can write read queries and get relevant data. this can help to analyze data ourselves without depending much on developers.... again, this is not too difficult, basic database knowledge is required and working little with developers to understand is enough APIs - now-a-days, most companies are working in microservice based architecture and APIs play a very important role in that. So, understanding that would be helpful basic things like what are cloud services like Azure, AWS etc., what is DevOps, what does QA team do, what is performance testing etc.
If you want to build digital products , you should have some technical knowledge , not because you have to understand the code but rather because you have to understand when the developers are highlighting an issue, giving you timelines , discussing or suggesting better solutions because the best insights comes from the eng team. It’s pretty basic actually there are few core concepts that you if you read about you should be in a position to start. For eg: how a request works , what are APIs , different errors , basic JSON structure , types of data , how a DB works etc.
Don't collaborate with the engineering team. Rest all we do. Features to prioritise, timeline of features, RCA, metrics defining, etc.
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