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| faang product manager interview: The Product Manager Interview Lewis C. Lin, 2017-11-06 NOTE: This is the NEWER 3rd edition for the book formerly titled PM Interview Questions. -- 164 Actual PM Interview Questions From the creator of the CIRCLES Method(TM), The Product Manager Interview is a resource you don't want to miss. The world's expert in product management interviews, Lewis C. Lin, gives readers 164 practice questions to gain product management (PM) proficiency and master the PM interview including: Google Facebook Amazon Uber Dropbox Microsoft Fully Solved Solutions The book contains fully solved solutions so readers can learn, improve and do their best at the PM interview. Here are questions and sample answers you'll find in the book: Product Design How would you design an ATM for elderly people? Should Google build a Comcast-like TV cable service? Instagram currently supports 3 to 15 second videos. We're considering supporting videos of unlimited length. How would you modify the UX to accommodate this? Pricing How would you go about pricing UberX or any other new Uber product? Let's say Google created a teleporting device: which market segments would you go after? How would you price it? Metrics Imagine you are the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PM in Sydney. What are the top three metrics you'd look at? Facebook users have declined 20 percent week over week. Diagnose the problem. How would you fix the issue? Ideal Complement to Decode and Conquer Many of you have read the PM interview frameworks revealed in Decode and Conquer, including the CIRCLES(TM), AARM(TM) and DIGS(TM) Methods. The Product Manager Interview is the perfect complement to Decode and Conquer. With over 160 practice questions, you'll see what the best PM interview responses look and feel like. Brand New Third Edition Many of the sample answers have been re-written from scratch. The sample answers are now stronger and easier to follow. In total, thousands of changes have made in this brand new third edition of the book. Preferred by the World's Top Universities Here's what students and staff have to say about the Lewis C. Lin: DUKE UNIVERSITY I was so touched by your presentation this morning. It was really helpful. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN I can say your class is the best that I have ever attended. I will definitely use knowledge I learned today for future interviews. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY I'd like to let you know that your workshop today is super awesome! It's the best workshop I have been to since I came to Columbia Business School. Thank you very much for the tips, frameworks, and the very clear and well-structured instruction! UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN I wanted to reiterate how much I enjoyed your workshops today. Thank you so much for taking time out and teaching us about these much-needed principles and frameworks. I actually plan to print out a few slides and paste them on my walls! CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY I'm a very big admirer of your work. We, at Tepper, follow your books like the Bible. As a former associate product manager, I was able to connect your concepts back to my work experience back and Pragmatic Marketing training. I'm really looking forward to apply your teachings. |
| faang product manager interview: Decode and Conquer Lewis C. Lin, 2013-11-28 Land that Dream Product Manager Job...TODAYSeeking a product management position?Get Decode and Conquer, the world's first book on preparing you for the product management (PM) interview. Author and professional interview coach, Lewis C. Lin provides you with an industry insider's perspective on how to conquer the most difficult PM interview questions. Decode and Conquer reveals: Frameworks for tackling product design and metrics questions, including the CIRCLES Method(tm), AARM Method(tm), and DIGS Method(tm) Biggest mistakes PM candidates make at the interview and how to avoid them Insider tips on just what interviewers are looking for and how to answer so they can't say NO to hiring you Sample answers for the most important PM interview questions Questions and answers covered in the book include: Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet. Brainstorm as many algorithms as possible for recommending Twitter followers. You're the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber? You're part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites? The billboard industry is under monetized. How can Google create a new product or offering to address this? Get the Book that's Recommended by Executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle & VMWare...TODAY |
| faang product manager interview: Cracking the PM Interview Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro, 2013 How many pizzas are delivered in Manhattan? How do you design an alarm clock for the blind? What is your favorite piece of software and why? How would you launch a video rental service in India? This book will teach you how to answer these questions and more. Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named PM (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the interview: estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important pitch. |
| faang product manager interview: Product Management in Practice Matt LeMay, 2017-11-08 Product management has become a critical connective role for modern organizations, from small technology startups to global corporate enterprises. And yet the day-to-day work of product management remains largely misunderstood. In theory, product management is about building products that people love. The real-world practice of product management is often about difficult conversations, practical compromises, and hard-won incremental gains. In this book, author Matt LeMay focuses on the CORE connective skills— communication, organization, research, execution—that can build a successful product management practice across industries, organizations, teams, andtoolsets. For current and aspiring product managers, this book explores:? On-the-ground tactics for facilitating collaboration and communication? How to talk to users and work with executives? The importance of setting clear and actionable goals? Using roadmaps to connect and align your team? A values-first approach to implementing Agile practices? Common behavioral traps that turn good product managers bad |
| faang product manager interview: Product Sense Peter Knudson, Braxton Bragg, 2021-07-12 Attempting to land a new job in product management is daunting. For starters, there have been no comprehensive blueprints for success. The interview process is grueling. Few candidates receive offers. Product Sense is the only comprehensive, yet accessible, resource available to help navigate a complex process and succeed an a hyper-competitive market. What will you learn from this book? The required PM common traits - ones that all PMs need to embody to get a job (regardless of industry, company, or product). The single, most crucial PM problem -What it is, why it is key to the role, and how to tackle it in four steps. Master our brand new Compass Framework - We designed our own proprietary interview framework from the ground up, which you can use to navigate product sense, execution, and leadership PM interview questions. How to get a job - A step-by-step hand-holding on what to do to land the most desired roles. Including take-home assignments, recruiter & hiring manager screens, and crafting your unique narrative - your PM Superpower. What's also inside? A detailed breakdown of the hiring criteria for PMs at FAANG and other tech companies Super-detailed example answers to tough PM interview case questions. An inside look at PM. Dozens of first-hand stories, interviews, real life examples, and no-fluff advice A robust glossary of PM terms used throughout the industry for easy reference This book will benefit those who are considering becoming PMs, those who are attempting to switch into product management from another role, or folks who are already PMs but want to be most prepared when applying for a new job. Here's what readers say about Product Sense: Product Sense helped me understand if PM is the right career path for me. Easy to read, clear, concise, and jam-packed full of insight and examples that illustrate all the concepts, this is the perfect starting point for anyone new to the field, and goes well beyond that for those looking to advance their career. Peter is one of the best strategic and tactical product minds I've ever worked with. For that reason, I'm not at all surprised that what he and Braxton have written here is a definitive guide to Product Management in today's ultra-competitive market. After reading Cracking the PM Interview, I was still lost as to how to structure my answers to case questions. While I understand that there is no right way to answer these interview questions, I appreciated that Product Sense gave me firm and clear guidance, walking me through the basics of PM thinking and how to adopt it in my interview answers. It was reassuring to see that the best mock interviews have all of the elements of Product Sense's Compass Framework. If CTPMI is the first step to prepare for landing a PM Role, then Product Sense is definitely the second step. |
| faang product manager interview: Swipe to Unlock Neel Mehta, Parth Detroja, Aditya Agashe, 2017 WANT A NON-CODING JOB AT A TECH COMPANY? Interested in product management, marketing, strategy, or business development? The tech industry is the place to be: nontechnical employees at tech companies outnumber their engineering counterparts almost 3 to 1 (Forbes, 2017). You might be worried that your lack of coding skills or tech industry knowledge will hold you back. But here's the secret: you don't need to learn how to code to break into the tech industry. Written by three former Microsoft PMs, Swipe to Unlock gives you a breakdown of the concepts you need to know to crush your interviews, like software development, big data, and internet security. We'll explain how Google's ad targeting algorithm works, but Google probably won't ask you how to explain it in a non-technical interview. But they might ask you how you could increase ad revenue from a particular market segment. And if you know how Google's ad platform works, you'll be in a far stronger position to come up with good growth strategies. We'll show you how Robinhood, an app that lets you trade stocks without commission, makes money by earning interest on the unspent money that users keep in their accounts. No one will ask you to explain this. But if someone asks you to come up with a new monetization strategy for Venmo (which lets you send and receive money without fees), you could pull out the Robinhood anecdote to propose that Venmo earn interest off the money sitting in users' accounts. We'll talk about some business cases like why Microsoft acquired LinkedIn. Microsoft interviewers probably won't ask you about the motive of the purchase, but they might ask you for ideas to improve Microsoft Outlook. From our case study, you'll learn how the Microsoft and LinkedIn ecosystems could work together, which can help you craft creative, impactful answers. You could propose that Outlook use LinkedIn's social graph to give salespeople insights about clients before meeting them. Or you could suggest linking Outlook's organizational tree to LinkedIn to let HR managers analyze their company's hierarchy and figure out what kind of talent they need to add. (We'll further explore both ideas in the book.) Either way, you're sure to impress. Learn the must know concepts of tech from authors who have received job offers for Facebook's Rotational Product Manager, Google's Associate Product Marketing Manager, and Microsoft's Program Manager to get a competitive edge at your interviews! |
| faang product manager interview: Cracking the PM Career Jackie Bavaro, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2022-04 Product management is a big role, and this is a big book. This comprehensive guide teaches new PMs and experienced PMs the skills, frameworks, and practices to become great product managers. ?Product skills: Drive better product decisions by conducting user research, performing data analysis, prototyping, writing product docs, and understanding technology.?Execution skills: Run your team well and deliver your projects quickly, smoothly, and effectively with project management, incremental development, launch processes, and good time management.?Strategic skills: Set a better direction for your team and optimize for long-term impact with vision, strategy, roadmapping, and team goals. Learn what it means to be more strategic.?Leadership skills: Lead more effectively by developing your personal mindset, collaboration, communication, inspiration, and mentorship skills.?People management: Learn leadership skills for managers, including coaching, recruiting, interviewing, and creating organizational structures.?Careers: Navigate your career by understanding the career ladder, setting goals, and translating your accomplishments into advancement. |
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| faang product manager interview: Product Leadership Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, Nate Walkingshaw, 2017-05-12 In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t? This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in product design and development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful product managers. If you want to understand what drives good product leaders, this book is an irreplaceable resource. In three parts, Product Leadership helps you explore: Themes and patterns of successful teams and their leaders, and ways to attain those characteristics Best approaches for guiding your product team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a company’s evolution Strategies and tactics for working with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders |
| faang product manager interview: Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments Ron Kohavi, Diane Tang, Ya Xu, 2020-04-02 Getting numbers is easy; getting numbers you can trust is hard. This practical guide by experimentation leaders at Google, LinkedIn, and Microsoft will teach you how to accelerate innovation using trustworthy online controlled experiments, or A/B tests. Based on practical experiences at companies that each run more than 20,000 controlled experiments a year, the authors share examples, pitfalls, and advice for students and industry professionals getting started with experiments, plus deeper dives into advanced topics for practitioners who want to improve the way they make data-driven decisions. Learn how to • Use the scientific method to evaluate hypotheses using controlled experiments • Define key metrics and ideally an Overall Evaluation Criterion • Test for trustworthiness of the results and alert experimenters to violated assumptions • Build a scalable platform that lowers the marginal cost of experiments close to zero • Avoid pitfalls like carryover effects and Twyman's law • Understand how statistical issues play out in practice. |
| faang product manager interview: The System Design Interview, 2nd Edition Lewis C. Lin, Shivam P. Patel, 2021-06-07 The System Design Interview, by Lewis C. Lin and Shivam P. Patel, is a comprehensive book that provides the necessary knowledge, concepts, and skills to pass your system design interview.It's written by industry professionals from Facebook & Google. Get their insider perspective on the proven, practical techniques for answering system design questions like Design YouTube or Design a TinyURL solution.Unlike others, this book teaches you exactly what you need to know.FEATURING THE PEDALS METHOD?, THE BEST FRAMEWORK FOR SYSTEM DESIGN QUESTIONSThe book revolves around an effective six-step process called PEDALS:- Process Requirements- Estimate- Design the Service- Articulate the Data Model- List the Architectural Components- ScalePEDALS demystifies the confusing system design interview by breaking it down into manageable steps. It's almost like a recipe: each step adds to the next. PEDALS helps you make a clear progression that starts from zero and ends with a functional, scalable system.The book explains how you can use PEDALS as a blueprint for acing the system design interview.The book also includes detailed examples of how you can use PEDALS for the most popular system design questions, including:- Design YouTube- Design Twitter- Design AutoSuggest- Design a TinyURL solutionALSO COVERED IN THE BOOK-What to expect and what interviewers look for in an ideal answer- How to estimate server, storage, and bandwidth needs- How to design data models and navigate discussions around SQL vs. NoSQL- How to draw architecture diagrams- How to build a basic cloud architecture- How to scale a cloud architecture for millions of users- Learn the best system strategies to reduce latency, improve efficiency, and maintain security- Review of technical concepts including CAP Theorem, Hadoop, and Microservices |
| faang product manager interview: System Design Interview - An Insider's Guide Alex Xu, 2020-06-12 The system design interview is considered to be the most complex and most difficult technical job interview by many. Those questions are intimidating, but don't worry. It's just that nobody has taken the time to prepare you systematically. We take the time. We go slow. We draw lots of diagrams and use lots of examples. You'll learn step-by-step, one question at a time.Don't miss out.What's inside?- An insider's take on what interviewers really look for and why.- A 4-step framework for solving any system design interview question.- 16 real system design interview questions with detailed solutions.- 188 diagrams to visually explain how different systems work. |
| faang product manager interview: Cracking the Tech Career Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2014-09-15 Become the applicant Google can't turn down Cracking the Tech Career is the job seeker's guide to landing a coveted position at one of the top tech firms. A follow-up to The Google Resume, this book provides new information on what these companies want, and how to show them you have what it takes to succeed in the role. Early planners will learn what to study, and established professionals will discover how to make their skillset and experience set them apart from the crowd. Author Gayle Laakmann McDowell worked in engineering at Google, and interviewed over 120 candidates as a member of the hiring committee – in this book, she shares her perspectives on what works and what doesn't, what makes you desirable, and what gets your resume saved or deleted. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the coveted companies in the current job market. They field hundreds of resumes every day, and have their pick of the cream of the crop when it comes to selecting new hires. If you think the right alma mater is all it takes, you need to update your thinking. Top companies, especially in the tech sector, are looking for more. This book is the complete guide to becoming the candidate they just cannot turn away. Discover the career paths that run through the top tech firms Learn how to craft the prefect resume and prepare for the interview Find ways to make yourself stand out from the hordes of other applicants Understand what the top companies are looking for, and how to demonstrate that you're it These companies need certain skillsets, but they also want a great culture fit. Grades aren't everything, experience matters, and a certain type of applicant tends to succeed. Cracking the Tech Career reveals what the hiring committee wants, and shows you how to get it. |
| faang product manager interview: The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring Osman (Ozzie) Osman, 2022-01-10 Learn how the best teams hire software engineers and fill technical roles. The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring is the authoritative guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates. Hiring is rated as one of the biggest obstacles to growth by most CEOs. Hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers all wrestle with how to source candidates, interview fairly and effectively, and ultimately motivate the right candidates to accept offers. Yet the process is costly, frustrating, and often stressful or unfair to candidates. Anyone who cares about building effective software teams will return to this book again and again. Inside, you'll find know-how from some of the most insightful and experienced leaders and practitioners—senior engineers, recruiters, entrepreneurs, and hiring managers—who’ve built teams from early-stage startups to thousand-person engineering organizations. The lead author of this guide, Ozzie Osman, previously led product engineering at Quora and teams at Google, and built (and sold) his own startup. Additional contributors include Aditya Agarwal, former CTO of Dropbox; Jennifer Kim, former head of diversity at Lever; veteran recruiters and startup founders Jose Guardado (founder of Build Talent and former Y Combinator) and Aline Lerner (CEO of Interviewing.io); and over a dozen others. Recruiting and hiring can be done well, in a way that has a positive impact on companies, employees, and every candidate. With the right foundations and practice, teams and candidates can approach a stressful and difficult process with knowledge and confidence. Ask your employer if you can expense this book—it's one of the highest-leverage investments they can make in your team. |
| faang product manager interview: Business Interviewing Linda Hickman, Cliff Longman, 1994 This text emphasizes the key role of user feedback and involvement in formulating a business model and evolving a system architecture. The text also provides readers with a variety of approaches to system development. It gives practical advice on the conduct of interviews at a variety of stages, along with effective presentation techniques. This highly practical book covers the basic techniques of interviewing clients and describes and illustrates different approaches to the various stages of their system development cycle. |
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| faang product manager interview: Cracking the Coding Interview Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2011 Now in the 5th edition, Cracking the Coding Interview gives you the interview preparation you need to get the top software developer jobs. This book provides: 150 Programming Interview Questions and Solutions: From binary trees to binary search, this list of 150 questions includes the most common and most useful questions in data structures, algorithms, and knowledge based questions. 5 Algorithm Approaches: Stop being blind-sided by tough algorithm questions, and learn these five approaches to tackle the trickiest problems. Behind the Scenes of the interview processes at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Apple: Learn what really goes on during your interview day and how decisions get made. Ten Mistakes Candidates Make -- And How to Avoid Them: Don't lose your dream job by making these common mistakes. Learn what many candidates do wrong, and how to avoid these issues. Steps to Prepare for Behavioral and Technical Questions: Stop meandering through an endless set of questions, while missing some of the most important preparation techniques. Follow these steps to more thoroughly prepare in less time. |
| faang product manager interview: Waking Up Sam Harris, 2015-06-16 Spirituality.The search for happiness --Religion, East and West --Mindfulness --The truth of suffering --Enlightenment --The mystery of consciousness.The mind divided --Structure and function --Are our minds already split? --Conscious and unconscious processing in the brain --Consciousness is what matters --The riddle of the self.What are we calling I? --Consciousness without self --Lost in thought --The challenge of studying the self --Penetrating the illusion --Meditation.Gradual versus sudden realization --Dzogchen: taking the goal as the path --Having no head --The paradox of acceptance --Gurus, death, drugs, and other puzzles.Mind on the brink of death --The spiritual uses of pharmacology. |
| faang product manager interview: A Practical Guide To Quantitative Finance Interviews Xinfeng Zhou, 2020-05-05 This book will prepare you for quantitative finance interviews by helping you zero in on the key concepts that are frequently tested in such interviews. In this book we analyze solutions to more than 200 real interview problems and provide valuable insights into how to ace quantitative interviews. The book covers a variety of topics that you are likely to encounter in quantitative interviews: brain teasers, calculus, linear algebra, probability, stochastic processes and stochastic calculus, finance and programming. |
| faang product manager interview: Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager James Stanier, 2020-06-09 Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does it even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully. Going from engineer to manager doesn't have to be intimidating. Engineers can be managers, and fantastic ones at that. Cast aside the rhetoric and focus on practical, hands-on techniques and tools. You'll become an effective and supportive team leader that your staff will look up to. Start with your transition to being a manager and see how that compares to being an engineer. Learn how to better organize information, feel productive, and delegate, but not micromanage. Discover how to manage your own boss, hire and fire, do performance and salary reviews, and build a great team. You'll also learn the psychology: how to ship while keeping staff happy, coach and mentor, deal with deadline pressure, handle sensitive information, and navigate workplace politics. Consider your whole department. How can you work with other teams to ensure best practice? How do you help form guilds and committees and communicate effectively? How can you create career tracks for individual contributors and managers? How can you support flexible and remote working? How can you improve diversity in the industry through your own actions? This book will show you how. Great managers can make the world a better place. Join us. |
| faang product manager interview: Jobs to Be Done Anthony W. Ulwick, 2016-10-25 Why do some innovation projects succeed where others fail? The book reveals the business implications of Jobs Theory and explains how to put Jobs Theory into practice using Outcome-Driven Innovation. |
| faang product manager interview: Escaping the Build Trap Melissa Perri, 2018-11-01 To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the build trap, cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer’s needs. In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You’ll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small. In five parts, this book explores: Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent How to set up a product organization that scales How product strategy connects a company’s vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs |
| faang product manager interview: Deep Learning Interviews Shlomo Kashani, 2020-12-09 The book's contents is a large inventory of numerous topics relevant to DL job interviews and graduate level exams. That places this work at the forefront of the growing trend in science to teach a core set of practical mathematical and computational skills. It is widely accepted that the training of every computer scientist must include the fundamental theorems of ML, and AI appears in the curriculum of nearly every university. This volume is designed as an excellent reference for graduates of such programs. |
| faang product manager interview: T-SQL Window Functions Itzik Ben-Gan, 2019-10-18 Use window functions to write simpler, better, more efficient T-SQL queries Most T-SQL developers recognize the value of window functions for data analysis calculations. But they can do far more, and recent optimizations make them even more powerful. In T-SQL Window Functions, renowned T-SQL expert Itzik Ben-Gan introduces breakthrough techniques for using them to handle many common T-SQL querying tasks with unprecedented elegance and power. Using extensive code examples, he guides you through window aggregate, ranking, distribution, offset, and ordered set functions. You’ll find a detailed section on optimization, plus an extensive collection of business solutions — including novel techniques available in no other book. Microsoft MVP Itzik Ben-Gan shows how to: • Use window functions to improve queries you previously built with predicates • Master essential SQL windowing concepts, and efficiently design window functions • Effectively utilize partitioning, ordering, and framing • Gain practical in-depth insight into window aggregate, ranking, offset, and statistical functions • Understand how the SQL standard supports ordered set functions, and find working solutions for functions not yet available in the language • Preview advanced Row Pattern Recognition (RPR) data analysis techniques • Optimize window functions in SQL Server and Azure SQL Database, making the most of indexing, parallelism, and more • Discover a full library of window function solutions for common business problems About This Book • For developers, DBAs, data analysts, data scientists, BI professionals, and power users familiar with T-SQL queries • Addresses any edition of the SQL Server 2019 database engine or later, as well as Azure SQL Database Get all code samples at: MicrosoftPressStore.com/TSQLWindowFunctions/downloads |
| faang product manager interview: Cracking the Behavioral Interview Questions Nazanin Bakhshi, Pooya Amini, 2019-11-17 Over the past several years of interviewing candidates, we have come across a large number of talented engineers who have excellent technical competencies but also have considerable discomfort in explaining the details of a current project and how its design challenges were resolved. In this book, we have collected the behavioral questions most frequently presented in software engineering interviews. We provided strategies for addressing each question, followed by sample responses from engineers currently working in large tech companies. This collection has been validated with a number of hiring managers to ensure that the dialogues are aligned with their expectations. |
| faang product manager interview: Grokking the System Design Interview Design Gurus, 2021-12-18 This book (also available online at www.designgurus.org) by Design Gurus has helped 60k+ readers to crack their system design interview (SDI). System design questions have become a standard part of the software engineering interview process. These interviews determine your ability to work with complex systems and the position and salary you will be offered by the interviewing company. Unfortunately, SDI is difficult for most engineers, partly because they lack experience developing large-scale systems and partly because SDIs are unstructured in nature. Even engineers who've some experience building such systems aren't comfortable with these interviews, mainly due to the open-ended nature of design problems that don't have a standard answer. This book is a comprehensive guide to master SDIs. It was created by hiring managers who have worked for Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon. The book contains a carefully chosen set of questions that have been repeatedly asked at top companies. What's inside? This book is divided into two parts. The first part includes a step-by-step guide on how to answer a system design question in an interview, followed by famous system design case studies. The second part of the book includes a glossary of system design concepts. Table of Contents First Part: System Design Interviews: A step-by-step guide. Designing a URL Shortening service like TinyURL. Designing Pastebin. Designing Instagram. Designing Dropbox. Designing Facebook Messenger. Designing Twitter. Designing YouTube or Netflix. Designing Typeahead Suggestion. Designing an API Rate Limiter. Designing Twitter Search. Designing a Web Crawler. Designing Facebook's Newsfeed. Designing Yelp or Nearby Friends. Designing Uber backend. Designing Ticketmaster. Second Part: Key Characteristics of Distributed Systems. Load Balancing. Caching. Data Partitioning. Indexes. Proxies. Redundancy and Replication. SQL vs. NoSQL. CAP Theorem. PACELC Theorem. Consistent Hashing. Long-Polling vs. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent Events. Bloom Filters. Quorum. Leader and Follower. Heartbeat. Checksum. About the Authors Designed Gurus is a platform that offers online courses to help software engineers prepare for coding and system design interviews. Learn more about our courses at www.designgurus.org. |
| faang product manager interview: Cracking the Data Science Interview Maverick Lin, 2019-12-17 Cracking the Data Science Interview is the first book that attempts to capture the essence of data science in a concise, compact, and clean manner. In a Cracking the Coding Interview style, Cracking the Data Science Interview first introduces the relevant concepts, then presents a series of interview questions to help you solidify your understanding and prepare you for your next interview. Topics include: - Necessary Prerequisites (statistics, probability, linear algebra, and computer science) - 18 Big Ideas in Data Science (such as Occam's Razor, Overfitting, Bias/Variance Tradeoff, Cloud Computing, and Curse of Dimensionality) - Data Wrangling (exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, data cleaning and visualization) - Machine Learning Models (such as k-NN, random forests, boosting, neural networks, k-means clustering, PCA, and more) - Reinforcement Learning (Q-Learning and Deep Q-Learning) - Non-Machine Learning Tools (graph theory, ARIMA, linear programming) - Case Studies (a look at what data science means at companies like Amazon and Uber) Maverick holds a bachelor's degree from the College of Engineering at Cornell University in operations research and information engineering (ORIE) and a minor in computer science. He is the author of the popular Data Science Cheatsheet and Data Engineering Cheatsheet on GCP and has previous experience in data science consulting for a Fortune 500 company focusing on fraud analytics. |
| faang product manager interview: The Billion Dollar App Anuj Mahajan, 2020-11-07 Did you know that 2019 marked the first time in history that people spent more time on their phones than watching TV? The Billion Dollar App tells the story of the apps that have led to this seismic cultural transition. It covers the past decade of the app industry, examining its greatest triumphs and most dramatic failures to explore what makes an app a billion-dollar success. The key to success consists of nine principles, which answer fundamental questions such as: Why did a video-sharing app like Vine fail, while the extremely similar TikTok is thriving? How did Let's take an Uber and Just Venmo me seamlessly enter our collective lexicon? How did Spotify revolutionize an industry while you've probably never heard of the app Rdio? How do free apps make money while paid apps don't, and why doesn't monetization have one-size-fits-all solutions? But really, we're answering a broader question: How do you make an app that effectively stands out in a crowded field? This book includes no technical jargon, no holier-than-thou lingo - just straightforward discussions. Whether you're a seasoned tech enthusiast or simply curious about the nature of this thriving industry, this book is for you. |
| faang product manager interview: Conquering Interviews for Business Roles in Tech Daniel Li, 2020-05-17 Whether you want a prestigious or lucrative job offer at a Fortune 500 company or startup, Conquering Interviews for Business Roles in Tech is your secret to getting hired. Learn how to dominate the most challenging interviews at companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple, even if you have little to no experience interviewing with technology companies. Feel confident and prepared for any interview by learning how to answer the 24 types of questions across business strategy, operations, product, marketing, corporate development, analytics, and finance. Save yourself valuable time by learning only the most effective, proven strategies and practicing with real interview questions. Take the first step to landing your dream job by giving yourself an unfair edge over the competition. Roles and types of questions covered: General case interviews, data challenges, company research questions, behavioral questions, resume questions, motivational questions Strategy and business operations company performance questions, growth questions, competition questions, risks and threats questions, trends questions Product management and marketing product improvement and design questions, product marketing questions Business and corporate development potential acquisition questions, valuation questions, potential partnership questions Operations process improvement questions, pricing questions, forecasting and capacity planning questions Analytics estimation questions, metrics questions Finance profitability questions, budget questions, finance and accounting questions |
| faang product manager interview: Staff Engineer Will Larson, 2021-02-28 At most technology companies, you'll reach Senior Software Engineer, the career level for software engineers, in five to eight years. At that career level, you'll no longer be required to work towards the next pro? motion, and being promoted beyond it is exceptional rather than ex? pected. At that point your career path will branch, and you have to decide between remaining at your current level, continuing down the path of technical excellence to become a Staff Engineer, or switching into engineering management. Of course, the specific titles vary by company, and you can replace Senior Engineer and Staff Engineer with whatever titles your company prefers.Over the past few years we've seen a flurry of books unlocking the en? gineering management career path, like Camille Fournier's The Man? ager's Path, Julie Zhuo's The Making of a Manager, Lara Hogan's Re? silient Management and my own, An Elegant Puzzle. The manage? ment career isn't an easy one, but increasingly there are maps avail? able for navigating it.On the other hand, the transition into Staff Engineer, and its further evolutions like Principal and Distinguished Engineer, remains chal? lenging and undocumented. What are the skills you need to develop to reach Staff Engineer? Are technical abilities alone sufficient to reach and succeed in that role? How do most folks reach this role? What is your manager's role in helping you along the way? Will you enjoy being a Staff Engineer or you will toil for years to achieve a role that doesn't suit you?Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track is a pragmatic look at attaining and operate in these Staff-plus roles. |
| faang product manager interview: The Google Resume Gayle Laakmann McDowell, 2011-01-25 The Google Resume is the only book available on how to win a coveted spot at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or other top tech firms. Gayle Laakmann McDowell worked in Google Engineering for three years, where she served on the hiring committee and interviewed over 120 candidates. She interned for Microsoft and Apple, and interviewed with and received offers from ten tech firms. If you’re a student, you’ll learn what to study and how to prepare while in school, as well as what career paths to consider. If you’re a job seeker, you’ll get an edge on your competition by learning about hiring procedures and making yourself stand out from other candidates. Covers key concerns like what to major in, which extra-curriculars and other experiences look good, how to apply, how to design and tailor your resume, how to prepare for and excel in the interview, and much more Author was on Google’s hiring committee; interned at Microsoft and Apple; has received job offers from more than 10 tech firms; and runs CareerCup.com, a site devoted to tech jobs Get the only comprehensive guide to working at some of America’s most dynamic, innovative, and well-paying tech companies with The Google Resume. |
| faang product manager interview: PM Interview Workbook Lewis Lin, 2016-08-04 NOTE: This is the OLDER 1st edition. The NEWER 2nd edition, re-titled as PM Interview Questions, is available here: http://amzn.to/2crlN1l ----- Over 160 Real PM Interview Workbook from Top Tech Companies The world's expert in product management interviews, Lewis C. Lin, gives readers over 160 practice questions to gain product management (PM) proficiency and master the PM interview. The PM Interview Workbook is a resource you don't want to miss. It contains over 160 actual questions from top tech companies including: Google Facebook Amazon Uber Dropbox Microsoft Fully Solved Solutions The book contains fully solved solutions so readers can learn, improve and do their best at the PM interview. Here are some questions and sample answers you'll find in the book: Product Design How would you design an ATM for elderly people? Should Google build a Comcast-like TV cable service? Instagram currently supports 3 to 15 second videos. We're considering supporting videos of unlimited length. How would you modify the UX to accommodate this? Pricing How would you go about pricing UberX or any other new Uber product? Let's say Google created a teleporting device: which market segments would you go after? How would you price it? Metrics Imagine you are the Amazon Web Services (AWS) PM in Sydney. What are the top three metrics you'd look at? Facebook users have declined 20 percent week over week. Diagnose the problem. How would you fix the issue? The Perfect Complement to Cracking the PM Interview or Decode and Conquer Many of you enjoyed reading about the PM interview frameworks revealed in Cracking the PM Interview as well as Decode and Conquer, including the CIRCLES(tm), AARM(tm) and DIGS(tm) Methods. The PM Interview Workbook is the perfect complement to both books. With over 160 practice questions, you'll see what the best PM interview responses look and feel like. |
| faang product manager interview: Business Analyst Interview Questions & Answers Kriti Rathi, Reelav Patel, 2019-06-14 This book provides scripted answers for the Business Analysis interview. |
| faang product manager interview: Indistractable Nir Eyal, 2019-09-10 Indistractable provides a framework that will deliver the focus you need to get results. —James Clear, author of Atomic Habits If you value your time, your focus, or your relationships, this book is essential reading. I'm putting these ideas into practice. —Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind National Bestseller Winner of the Outstanding Works of Literature (OWL) Award Included in the Top 5 Best Personal Development Books of the Year by Audible Included in the Top 20 Best Business and Leadership Books of the Year by Amazon Featured in The Amazon Book Review Newsletter, January 2020 Goodreads Best Science & Technology of 2019 Finalist You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interrupts your morning. Later, as you're about to get back to work, a colleague taps you on the shoulder to chat. At home, screens get in the way of quality time with your family. Another day goes by, and once again, your most important personal and professional goals are put on hold. What would be possible if you followed through on your best intentions? What could you accomplish if you could stay focused? What if you had the power to become indistractable? International bestselling author, former Stanford lecturer, and behavioral design expert, Nir Eyal, wrote Silicon Valley's handbook for making technology habit-forming. Five years after publishing Hooked, Eyal reveals distraction's Achilles' heel in his groundbreaking new book. In Indistractable, Eyal reveals the hidden psychology driving us to distraction. He describes why solving the problem is not as simple as swearing off our devices: Abstinence is impractical and often makes us want more. Eyal lays bare the secret of finally doing what you say you will do with a four-step, research-backed model. Indistractable reveals the key to getting the best out of technology, without letting it get the best of us. Inside, Eyal overturns conventional wisdom and reveals: • Why distraction at work is a symptom of a dysfunctional company culture—and how to fix it • What really drives human behavior and why time management is pain management • Why your relationships (and your sex life) depend on you becoming indistractable • How to raise indistractable children in an increasingly distracting world Empowering and optimistic, Indistractable provides practical, novel techniques to control your time and attention—helping you live the life you really want. |
| faang product manager interview: The Lean Product Playbook Dan Olsen, 2015-05-21 The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit. It walks you through how to: Determine your target customers Identify underserved customer needs Create a winning product strategy Decide on your Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Design your MVP prototype Test your MVP with customers Iterate rapidly to achieve product-market fit This book was written by entrepreneur and Lean product expert Dan Olsen whose experience spans product management, UX design, coding, analytics, and marketing across a variety of products. As a hands-on consultant, he refined and applied the advice in this book as he helped many companies improve their product process and build great products. His clients include Facebook, Box, Hightail, Epocrates, and Medallia. Entrepreneurs, executives, product managers, designers, developers, marketers, analysts and anyone who is passionate about building great products will find The Lean Product Playbook an indispensable, hands-on resource. |
| faang product manager interview: Hire With Your Head Lou Adler, 2021-09-22 Discover the secrets of one of the world’s leading talent acquisition experts In the newly revised Fourth Edition of Hire With Your Head: Using Performance-Based Hiring to Build Great Teams, influential recruiting and hiring expert Lou Adler delivers a practical guide to consistently identifying and hiring the best people and scaling that process throughout your company. This book will help you address your hiring and recruitment issues, not just by making you more efficient, but also by reforming your entire process to align with how top talent actually look for new jobs, compare offers, and select opportunities. You'll discover: Discover what it takes to ensure more Win-Win Hiring outcomes by hiring for the anniversary date rather than the start date How to use a High Tech, High Touch approach to raise the talent bar Expand the talent pool to include more outstanding, high potential and diverse talent by defining work as a series of key performance objectives Perfect for hiring managers, recruiters, and HR and business leaders, Hire with Your Head is a must-read resource for anyone seeking to improve their ability to find, attract, and retain the top talent the world has to offer. |
| faang product manager interview: Cracking the TPM Code Abraham Chackungal, 2020-05-16 Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a Technical Program Manager role in any big tech company. The book contains 80+ Questions, Sample Answers, 25+ Worksheets, 7+ Mock Interviews, Mind Maps. Questions range from Behavioural, PM specific, Technical Questions, System Design & Generic Questions. Inspiration: As interviewers, it was noticed that many stellar program managers fail in TPM interviews due to incorrect guidance. This course is primarily focused as a complete guide to master the TPM interview, both technical and non-technical. It's is created in consultation with interviewers who've been working for companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The questions you practice here, have been repeatedly asked in all these top companies. Hope our efforts help you to get your next big paycheque! |
| faang product manager interview: Data Science Interviews Exposed Jane You, Yanping Huang, Iris Wang, Feng Cao (Computer scientist), Ian Gao, 2015 The era has come when data science is changing the world and everyone's life. Data Science Interviews Exposed is the first book in the industry that covers everything you need to know to prepare for a data science career: from job market overview to job roles description, from resume preparation to soft skill development, and most importantly, the real interview questions and detailed answers. We hope this book can help the candidates in the data science job market, as well as those who need guidance to begin a data science career.--Back cover. |
| faang product manager interview: Optimized C++ Kurt Guntheroth, 2016-04-27 In today’s fast and competitive world, a program’s performance is just as important to customers as the features it provides. This practical guide teaches developers performance-tuning principles that enable optimization in C++. You’ll learn how to make code that already embodies best practices of C++ design run faster and consume fewer resources on any computer—whether it’s a watch, phone, workstation, supercomputer, or globe-spanning network of servers. Author Kurt Guntheroth provides several running examples that demonstrate how to apply these principles incrementally to improve existing code so it meets customer requirements for responsiveness and throughput. The advice in this book will prove itself the first time you hear a colleague exclaim, “Wow, that was fast. Who fixed something?” Locate performance hot spots using the profiler and software timers Learn to perform repeatable experiments to measure performance of code changes Optimize use of dynamically allocated variables Improve performance of hot loops and functions Speed up string handling functions Recognize efficient algorithms and optimization patterns Learn the strengths—and weaknesses—of C++ container classes View searching and sorting through an optimizer’s eye Make efficient use of C++ streaming I/O functions Use C++ thread-based concurrency features effectively |
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FAANG companies: what is the attraction? : r/recruitinghell - Reddit
Going to a FAANG-tier company, I make 160k to do the same. Exact. Thing. Also getting to participate in an employee stock purchase plan where I purchase FAANG stock at a discount, …
Understanding FAANG Leveling : r/leetcode - Reddit
Oct 30, 2023 · Understanding FAANG Leveling Every time I mention leveling in this subreddit, either L{n}, E{n}, or junior-principle, I get questions asking for clarity on what these terms …
[AMA] I'm a data science manager in FAANG : r/datascience - Reddit
I know someone who applied to 35 roles in the same company before he got in. I personally couldn't get an interview in FAANG so I started applying for internships in FAANG (even …
What colleges does FAANG/big tech actively recruit from?
Absolutely not UMBC. I’m in FAANG and graduated from UMBC but not bc of the school. I landed a FAANG swe position only bc I worked at a virtually unknown company after graduation …
Petition to change the “n” in FAANG to NVIDIA : r/csMajors - Reddit
Mar 25, 2024 · FAANG, though originally coined as a term for growth tech stocks, is widely used in this sub as a group of high paying companies with great benefits. In that regard I don't think …
A guideline to land a FAANG job in 2 years for someone ... - Reddit
Jul 16, 2021 · Learn about some complicated data structures. Learn to do basically everything with graphs and linked lists that one might want to do. And then when you think you're ready, …
Why does everyone want to work at FAANG? : r/dataengineering
May 3, 2022 · Cracking FAANG interviews are tough and having FAANG and other big tech on your resume/cv assures that you will not be denied future relevant opportunities based on …
How much does a software engineer make at FAANG? : r/bayarea
Back in 2016, my offer from FB (er, Meta) at E5 was $210K base, $50K sign-on, and $825K initial grant. I ended up going to a FAANG adjacent company with even higher TC. In today’s …
Equivalent of FAANG in cyber : r/cybersecurity - Reddit
I purchased the Exponent course it was absolutely 100% fantastic value and would recommend it to anyone interviewing at a FAANG. I think it was about $110 for a year subscription, but they …
People who got FAANG+ internships (or any coveted internship
idk how “coveted” my internship is (not FAANG but above min wage (Cali) and remote), but i wrote a Discord bot in Node.js, it uses an API and SQLite to store some data, including a date …
FAANG companies: what is the attraction? : r/recruitinghell - Reddit
Going to a FAANG-tier company, I make 160k to do the same. Exact. Thing. Also getting to participate in an employee stock purchase plan where I purchase FAANG stock at a discount, …
Understanding FAANG Leveling : r/leetcode - Reddit
Oct 30, 2023 · Understanding FAANG Leveling Every time I mention leveling in this subreddit, either L{n}, E{n}, or junior-principle, I get questions asking for clarity on what these terms …
[AMA] I'm a data science manager in FAANG : r/datascience - Reddit
I know someone who applied to 35 roles in the same company before he got in. I personally couldn't get an interview in FAANG so I started applying for internships in FAANG (even …
What colleges does FAANG/big tech actively recruit from?
Absolutely not UMBC. I’m in FAANG and graduated from UMBC but not bc of the school. I landed a FAANG swe position only bc I worked at a virtually unknown company after graduation …
Petition to change the “n” in FAANG to NVIDIA : r/csMajors - Reddit
Mar 25, 2024 · FAANG, though originally coined as a term for growth tech stocks, is widely used in this sub as a group of high paying companies with great benefits. In that regard I don't think …
A guideline to land a FAANG job in 2 years for someone ... - Reddit
Jul 16, 2021 · Learn about some complicated data structures. Learn to do basically everything with graphs and linked lists that one might want to do. And then when you think you're ready, …
Why does everyone want to work at FAANG? : r/dataengineering
May 3, 2022 · Cracking FAANG interviews are tough and having FAANG and other big tech on your resume/cv assures that you will not be denied future relevant opportunities based on …
How much does a software engineer make at FAANG? : r/bayarea
Back in 2016, my offer from FB (er, Meta) at E5 was $210K base, $50K sign-on, and $825K initial grant. I ended up going to a FAANG adjacent company with even higher TC. In today’s …
Equivalent of FAANG in cyber : r/cybersecurity - Reddit
I purchased the Exponent course it was absolutely 100% fantastic value and would recommend it to anyone interviewing at a FAANG. I think it was about $110 for a year subscription, but they …
People who got FAANG+ internships (or any coveted internship
idk how “coveted” my internship is (not FAANG but above min wage (Cali) and remote), but i wrote a Discord bot in Node.js, it uses an API and SQLite to store some data, including a date …
