Product Manager BEHAVIORAL Interviews: Leadership & Drive

For product manager interviews at Google, Facebook, Amazon or any tech or FAANG company, you'll get behavioral questions like "tell me about a time..." Here are common mistakes and best practices to ace this interview.

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[diannayau]

🤩Comment below: ✍what behavioral questions have you been asked in an interview?

[davidamarquez]

Love this. People will give me the star method but you broke that down into percentages.

[eventbritemillionaire]

I can’t thank you enough for all of your tips and for you taking the time to teach and prepare me for the FB interviews! I’m so excited to say that I got a FB offer and I certainly credit it to you.

Thank you for your personal sessions with me and creating relevant and real content that can’t be copied. I love your authenticity and your passion to help others excel.

[natashakadam]

This is extremely helpful content Dianna. Thanks a million for this!
The 5 things you've asked us to do after watching this video is exactly what I needed, as I was clueless how to prepare for a managerial interview round.

[rafaelleto]

Very helpful content, especially the action items in the end of the video! Thank you.

[papanags]

I liked the Action part explanation. And the time split for the answer. Thank you :)

[davidamarquez]

Should one always use star for every question? At times they may seem to be a simple yes or no or a clarity question.

[e.w.]

Great video! To internalize it i have to be critical. :) I think 5 mins to answer a behavioral question is too long. Some PMs recommend 2-4 mins, some say around 2mins is the best. I think unless it's really an engaging story, if it takes 5 mins the listener will easily lose track. And you have to memorize a lot! Being able to concisely communicate is one of the qualities PM needs to have. Give the interviewer the chance to ask follow up questions.

[subratadazz]

Few question that I face a lot is " Tell me about a time you made a mistake ", " Tell me about a time when you had to influence someone with / without data ", " Tell me about your most challenging project "

[rajavijayach]

How to dramatize what happened?

First skeleton and then add the following flesh items.

Add emotional details across all details of the story ( makes people care what happens ) ( use words like dread, hope, upset, disappointed, ecstatic )

Include details of what people say or do or felt or underwent ( more specific you can make the story -> more people can visualise -> makes people care even more )

[Jake-ttiv]

What I hate about these questions is how unremarkable these examples are in the totality of our career. I don't keep and store "conflict resolution" scenarios in my head. So I just make them up in interviews. Ultimately not serving anyone any real purpose.

[utubevrao]

This video was very helpful. Thanks a lot!

[wenjiewu]

The biggest struggle for junior level roles is that we don't have that much experience/stories to respond to all of these questions.

[Singularity]

Hey Dianna, outstanding content as always, thank you very much! Can you please help with these behavioral questions - "Can you tell about a time when you failed as a product manager" and "Can you tell about a time when you made a mistake"? Thanks in advance.

[HelenCui-oz]

if the result is negative I prefer not to bring up this whole story as it does not serve as evidence that I'm the best candidate...