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Struggling with PM Interviews? Avoid these Mistakes

Crack any PM interview like the top 1%

Shailesh Sharma
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3 min readMar 18, 2025

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Are you struggling with PM interviews?

You are preparing, practising and still not able to do good in a PM interview

What if I tell you, you are Preparing the Wrong way

You are preparing like you are still stuck in 2020–2021

However, currently, due to a supply-demand mismatch, something extra is required.

These are the mistakes which a lot of candidates make in a PM interview

Not thinking from the First Principle

Example — Candidate ( A ) and Candidate ( B )

Questions — How would you Improve Spotify?

Clarifying question asked by ( A ) — 99% of candidates

  1. What is the Goal of Improving Spotify? What are we trying to achieve from this?
  2. Are we improving Spotify for a particular type of Device like Mobile or Desktop? Any specific geography?
  3. Is there any Resource Constraint in terms of Technology / Monetary or any Time Constraint I should be aware of ?

All these are valid questions but they are not asked…

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