I know that more and more companies are moving toward looking for the “structured” interview responses like Meta and Google implemented and I’m wondering if you think that being good at answering things in this way really means you are a better PM, or just better at doing these interviews. People spend months preparing for these, and I am struggling to see the connection between getting better at these interviews and being better at product management. What am I missing?

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I don’t think it necessarily proves a correlation between “killing” the interview and being a successful product manager. But I think it proves that using a product management framework can be applied to anything, including the interviewing process, and everything can be measured with KPI’s. It’s kinda backwards because I perceive that this process is more black and white for the interviewers, not necessarily that it yields better candidates.

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