Hello! Would someone be able to provide some insight into a take home interview exercise? I am going for a junior position and have gotten through 2 other rounds of interviews but would love to see how a more experienced pm would approach this. Essentially it is writing an epic with business requirements. I will provide more context.

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Usually, junior positions require good technical skills as well as team management. It will be a combination of mentoring and working with upper management (Dealing a lot with bureaucracy + technical knowledge).

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Really great advice, I always get into my head right before the interview especially since this is my first role in tech. Thank you 🙏🏾

Well you need to clearly define what the major point of the development item is … as a pm I want to do x. You want to be clear on what had to be accomplished, without prescribing “how” to accomplish it. Also acceptance criteria is important.

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Thank you very much! I have pretty much done that I will just refine and clarify my epic more

Don’t forget happy path/sad path! That means explain what the behaviour should be under bad/unwanted inputs be as well as what it should be in normal circumstances. Here is an example
- if a long and a short balance are in the same currency, net them (happy path)
- if a long and a short balance are in different currencies, don’t net them (happy path)
- if a balance is zero, do not net it with anything (happy path but the kind of thing it is easy for somebody inexperienced to not think of)
- if a balance has currency as null/- then do not net it with anything (sad path as weird data- definitely the kind of attentiveness that makes you stand out)


Here is another example
- users with entitlement A can link any item with a parent item (happy path)
- items can have only one parent, so if a user with entitlement A sets a parent then it will overwrite an older value (happy path)
- advanced sad path to think about: are you making a tree…so does that mean I can’t set an items parent to be one of its children…what if i sat X’s parent is Y, and Y’s parent is X? Is that ok?

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