I have an upcoming PM interview with an engineering manager. What types of questions should I expect? For some context, the interview is for a generalist PM role (not too technical) for a company that develops APIs.

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Product Managers do different things in different companies. But any of: how do you influence teams, how do you prioritze tasks, how do you find user needs/ problems that need solving, value proposition, how do you translate user needs into srs and sds, how do you make sure what is implemented solves a customer need, how do you deal with evolving priorities, how do you manage different portions of sdlc…

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Thank you -- re: the SDLC/SRS/SDS portion -- assuming for more agile teams there would be less of a focus on those? Obviously your larger point (how to translate requirements into requirements)

So I think they will want to be reassured that you understand and value their role and are able to mobilize the team and understand the needs of the engineering side. I would think about what your biggest strengths are in your current relationship with the engineering manager where you work - unless this is your first PM role within this kind of org?

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Great points. I'm currently a PM so I'll definitely think on this to highlight some collaboration and working-relationship-style type of responses

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I think they want to understand how you will work with engineering and balance between the natural tension of asking for more with being realistic and supporting WLB for engineers.

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