Main Takeaways:
-Prepare to interview with your recruiter, future manager and your team
-Prepare for different interview stages when seeking a product job
-The kind of questions to expect and best practices
5. How to prepare for
interview stages,
when seeking a
product
management job
Kasia Paczynska
Talent Acquisition Lead in
6. Shortly about me:
Senior recruiter and Talent
Acquisition Lead
8 years in IT industry
Past: GOG.com, TomTom,
Now: DAZN
After work: motorbikes, hiking,
travels
7. What I will talk
about
How to prepare for different
interview stages
What is the general purpose of
each interview stage and how
to distinguish them
When to aks which questions,
while interviewing
8. First – what is the usual interview process?
1. Call with a recruiter
2. Interview with manager
3. Interview with the team
4. Decision
9. Call with Recruiter
Purpose:
• General introduction to the
company
• Evaluation of essential skills
needed for the job
• Evaluation of communication
• Check of the formalities: salary,
elibility to work on certain
countries, availbility
What to prepare:
• Smooth and short summary
of your past experience
• Why you want to work in this
company
• Your salary expectations
• Your notice period, your
planned holidays, trips etc.
• Inform yourself about the
company
QUESTIONS
10. Interview with a manager
What to prepare:
• Past expamples from your carreer which
showcase some of your core skills (adaptability,
flexibilty, dealing with challenges, conflict
resolution …)
• STAR method
• Think of both wins and failures
• Get to know the company
• QUESTIONS to your future manager
Purpose:
• Evaluation of Team Fit
• Check of the core skills
• Definition of how successful you will be on the
job in this company environment
• Definition of your seniority level
11. Interview with
the team
Purpose:
• Evaluation of skills required for the job
• Live assesments
• Definition of seniority level
What to prepare:
• STAR method
• Go through job description again, think of
situations from your past based on the
requirements list
• QUESTIONS to your future team