Interview question - What would your Manager say you need to improve as a Product Manager?

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This is a good one. I’ve found that “cross team communication” is an evergreen topic here. Even in the best of organizations there’s always opportunities to improve. Go for examples where you had great updates, structured gating, and there was still some nit detail that somebody got stuck in their teeth. As always, have a strategy for mitigation in the future. A good interviewer will be able to empathize.

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G1, sometimes “improved comms” can be repositioned as “communications better tailored to specific stakeholders” or “leverage new productivity tool to streamline comms”. The reason comms go sideways are as varied as the teams communicating. There is always a new audience to be satisfied, process change to be optimized or even a change in end-user notification preference to be accommodated.

Not micromanaging!

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To improve communication I'd stress the importance of putting yourself in the receiver's position and ensuring you are being empathetic to the circumstances.

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I will say focus on non functional requirements such as logging, exception handling and support for geographical scaling and seamless upgrade based on my experience.

The main aim of the question is to see that you have a growth mindset and are self aware … so it doesn’t matter what it is as long you have a thought out plan to handle it ( as in you are already executing on that plan ALREADY and see amazing results for and the TEAM)

I would say to build up my ability to delegate more often

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