Round 1:
Interviewer: Recruiter (HR): Duration: 25 mins.
The interviewer started by explaining details about this role. What the full-time role would be like? Talked about the company in general. Shared details about the roles and responsibilities.
- Tell me about yourself.
- Are you open to relocation?
- What is your Visa status? Would you require sponsorship anytime in the future?
- Expected compensation.
- What do you prefer, hybrid or onsite or work from home?
- Why this role?
- What makes you a good fit here?
- What do you know about UPS?
- Do you have any questions for me?
Shared details on what to expect in coming interviews.
Suggestion: Have a brief company overview before this round. Confidence and clear communication is the key. Giving a few behavioural mock interviews will help.
Round 2: Duration: 50 mins.
Interviewer: Director of Product Management.
The interviewer started by introducing himself. Sharing insights on key roles and responsibilities of the role.
- Introduce yourself.
- Why Product Management?
- Explain your recent experience in Product Management.
- Have you improved any business processes? How?
- How do you do prioritization?
- What do you know about SAFe (Scaled Agile)?
- Have you used UPS products?
- Have you used the UPS shipping service? What features did you like? What improvements would you want to make?
- What KPIs/OKRs you would consider to measure the success of a product?
- What tools have you used to track KPIs?
- How would you do reporting of metrics? What will you do if the reported metrics do not match with original metrics?
- Have you written user stories? What is a user story?
- Have you worked cross-functionally before?
- Explain your recent experience in Project Management.
- What is the biggest challenge you faced in project management? How do you overcome them?
- Can you deliver strong recommendations/presentations to the board/senior executives?
- Do you have any questions for me?
Suggestion: Confidence and clear communication is the key. Ask good questions that should be user-centric.
Round 3: Duration: 30 mins.
Interviewer: 2 Senior Product Managers.
The interviewers started by introducing themselves. Sharing insights on key roles and responsibilities of the role.
- Started with an icebreaker question. What is one activity you would want to remove from your daily routine and why?
- Introduce yourself.
- What are you doing at Duke?
- Explain your experience with the Product Management Club at Duke. How did you get into this club? What does the club do?
- Do you have any product certifications?
- Our team is shifting from a project-driven approach to a product-driven approach. What are your thoughts on this transition?
- Why are you transitioning from Software development to product management?
- How do you do market analysis? What is your experience with go-to-market strategies?
- How do you do competitive analysis?
- Do you have any questions for me?
Suggestion: Confidence and clear communication is the key. Ask good and relevant questions. Answers should be to the point and not too detail-oriented.
Good Luck 🙂