The Ultimate PM Interview Bible: 50+ Posts, 40+ Podcasts & Insider Secrets to Land Your Dream Role

Discover the most comprehensive guide to product manager interviews, compiling expert strategies, frameworks, and company-specific tips to ace behavioral questions, case studies, and more—perfect for beginners to directors

As far as I know, of people researching and writing about the PM interview over the last 4 years, I’ve written the most content.

But it’s a sprawling set of 50+ newsletter posts, 40+ podcast episodes, and 300+ social media posts.

Today, I’m putting all the most important resources together into a step-by-step curriculum:

Here’s all those links.

CORE CURRICULUM

101: The Core Concepts

• Right Overall Strategy for Interviews: Exactly how you should be preparing for interviews and coming in with the right mindset to win

• What Interviewers Care About: Empathizing with the other side so you can put your best self forward

• How to Win at Remote Interviews: Techniques to stand out when you aren’t in-person

201: Behavioral Interviews

• Conquer Behavioral Interviews: Since these are 85% of questions, you need to master the frameworks that turn stories into offers

• Ace Tell Me About Yourself: Transform the most common question into your most powerful 2-minute pitch

• Answering the Top 10 Questions: The best way to learn is to see what actual full, scripted responses look like

• Product Estimation Questions: Master the analytical frameworks that show you can think quantitatively about products

301: Case Interviews

• Product Sense Interview: This is the most common case interview, so learn the frameworks to master it

• Product Design Interview: Learn the systematic approach to designing products that users actually want

• Product Strategy Interview: Less common but high-stakes - show you can think like a CEO

• Vibe Coding Interview: Handle AI coding challenges without looking like a deer in headlights

• Product Execution Interview: The case that separates dreamers from doers - prove you can ship

• Product Metrics Interview: Most PMs fail this because they pick vanity metrics instead of business drivers

• System Design Interview: Think through technical architecture at the level engineering expects

GUEST SPEAKERS DEPARTMENT

302: Advice from Experts

• Phyl Terry: Group-based job search strategies that 3x your interview rate

• Gayle McDowell: From the Author of "Cracking the PM Interview," the structured approach that works

• Lewis Lin: From the Author of "Decode and Conquer," frameworks used by 500K+ professionals

• Diego Granados: FAANG insider tactics from someone who actually works at Google

• Dr. Nancy Li: How to Ace PM Interviews

• Marily Nika: How to Ace AI PM Interviews

GETTING INTERVIEWS DEPARTMENT

303: How to Get Interviews

• Step-by-Step Guidance: Go from zero interviews to multiple offers in 90 days or less

• How to Build Your PM Portfolio: Create work samples that prove you can do the job

• How to Write Your Cover Letter: Get past ATS filters and into human hands

• How to Customize Your Resume: 6 tactics that make recruiters actually notice you

304: Advanced Search Tactics

• The Small Market Recruiting Strategy: Land opportunities in markets outside the big cities

• The 1-Hour/ 7-Hour/ 40-Hour Per Week Job Search: Match your effort to your timeline and situation

• How to Win Referrals: Turn your network into a recruiting machine with proven scripts (Advanced Referrals Tips)

• How to Ace Homework + Presentations: The toughest part of modern job searches. Here’s how to differentiate

305: AI PM Specialization

• How to Land an AI PM Interview: Get into the highest-growth PM specialty before everyone else catches on

• How to Use AI Job Search Tools: 10x your application volume without sacrificing quality

306: Transitions

• How to Become a PM without Experience: The proven path for career changers who start from zero

• How to Transition from Designer: Translate design skills into PM language that hiring managers understand

• How to Transition from Software Engineer: Bridge from building products to defining what gets built

LEADERSHIP DEPARTMENT

401: Landing Leadership Roles

• Product Leadership Interviews: Navigate the subtle differences that separate IC interviews from leadership evaluations

• Director+ Interviews: Avoid getting down-leveled with strategies from 6 successful senior PM hires

BIG TECH DEPARTMENT

402: Landing Roles at Top Tech

• Microsoft & Apple: Insider strategies and cultural nuances for landing offers at both companies

• Google: Crack Google's unique process and understand what they actually evaluate

• OpenAI: Position yourself for the most competitive PM roles in AI

• Meta: Learn from 12 current and former Meta PMs who know the system inside out

Now that we’ve helped you through the content I have written so far. Let’s cover some more advanced topics.

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The Rest of Today’s Deep Dive

I want to cover some juicy topics that I haven’t had much of a chance to get into. These are what my mentees continually have challenges with:

1. How to handle layoffs and firings in interviews

2. How to use AI tools and notes to “cheat” in interviews

3. The number one method to practice that not enough of you are doing

4. The ultimate guide to a killer remote interview setup

5. How the PM interview has changed over time

6. The top 150 interview questions to practice

Let’s get into it…