Product Management Topics
Product leadership, vision articulation, roadmap development, and feature prioritization. Focuses on product strategy and business alignment.
Decision Making and Trade Offs
Covers how candidates make difficult decisions when facing competing priorities, limited resources, ambiguous information, or stakeholder disagreement. Interviewers expect a clear recounting of a real situation, the options considered, the criteria and frameworks used to evaluate trade offs, how risks and benefits were weighed, who was consulted, and how the decision was communicated and executed. Candidates should describe measurable outcomes, lessons learned, and what they would do differently. This topic assesses judgment, prioritization, structured thinking, stakeholder management, and the ability to reflect on trade off outcomes.
Customer and User Focus & Ownership
Ability to think about end-user impact, taking ownership of problems, understanding business context, and going beyond requirements to deliver value. Examples of when you cared about user experience or business outcomes.
Developer Experience and Platform Strategy
Covers designing and executing strategies that make developer facing products and platforms easy to discover, learn, and adopt. Topics include developer onboarding and time to first successful call, adoption and retention metrics, developer satisfaction indicators, documentation quality, sample code and SDK ergonomics, API design trade offs and versioning, authentication and error handling, self service developer portals, community and support models, pricing and commercial considerations that affect adoption, and prioritization of developer experience work against feature development. Also includes internal platform design considerations such as abstraction of complexity, self service capabilities, safety guardrails, governance and compliance trade offs, feedback loops, and how improving developer experience drives business and platform outcomes. Candidates should be prepared to discuss concrete case studies, measurement approaches, experiments to reduce friction, and how design decisions balance simplicity, comprehensiveness, and long term technical debt.
Customer Obsession
Prioritizing customer needs and working backward from customer experiences to shape decisions and roadmaps. Includes gathering and using customer feedback, balancing internal convenience against customer value, and making trade offs that demonstrably improve the user experience or customer outcomes.