Preparing for a Product Manager Interview

So you’ve worked hard on preparing the product manager application and you’ve managed to snag an interview invitation. You still have a lot of work ahead of you as PM interviews require a fair bit of preparation (especially if it’s your first PM job). If…

Michaelmas Term Advice

Once you are accepted to Oxford and you know you want to attend, apply immediately to the college of your choice. Many in my class (including me) spent a huge amount of time researching colleges and by the time we were ready to pick the college, the list of available choices had shrunk…

Summer Term: Weeks Seven to Ten

Job Hunting:
Got my first interview of the year and it was such a relief to finally kickoff the job hunt. I’m interested in Product Manager roles and was interviewed by a small company in Cambridge. I cleared the technical phone interview and was invited for an onsite…

Post MBA: Two Month Update

Many of my classmates and I have been receiving queries from MBA aspirants who are interested in applying to SBS. The questions are usually focussed on the career opportunities after graduating from Oxford. This is understandable as many of them plan to take on massive amounts of…

Is an MBA required to become a ‘good’ product manager?

Is the MBA required?

I deliberately included the qualifier ‘good’, in the title as the MBA is obviously not required to get into product management. Note that I am looking at this issue from the…

Post MBA: Week Six Mini Update

It’s now been exactly six weeks since the graduation ceremony that was held at the Sheldonian and I think it’s a good time to give a mini update on where things stand.

Housing

Trinity Term: Week Nine

With the final classes of the Trinity term finishing this week, I thought it would be a good time to reflect on the electives that I took this term. Please note that these are my personal opinions and may not reflect those of the class. Remember, I am looking at these electives from the…

Trinity Term: Week Eight

In the summer, Oxford MBA’s are required to select from one of four options. The first and most popular option is to a Strategic Consulting Project (SCP). SCP’s are six week consulting projects that take place in locations all over the world, though most of them tend to be located in…

Summer Term: Weeks Three to Six (scp, job hunting)

It’s been a while since I have posted and I have a lot of ground to make up (The 2014–2015 class kicked off their pre-course this week!). I hope to catch up and wrap up within the next two weeks, so stay tuned.