Imagine you received an offer for a PM role (non-FAANG) what are some questions you'd ask the hiring manager about the job or company?
Reason for asking this is because I see a lot of PM jobs might not be exactly align with what PMs should do. Any thoughts on this ?

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- who controls the strategy? Which stakeholders have input into that strategy?
- how is the engineering team structured? Is there an engineering manager? Product owner? Scrum master? Dedicated design resources?
- how is the standup operated?
- is the product profitable? If the business lost their #1 client, or 30% of the users, how would that affect the team and or resources?
- what does success for this product look like?
- are there other product managers and/or products in the company? How often do the product managers talk and/or compare notes?

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