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PM Interview Evaluation Sheet PDF

The document provides templates for evaluating candidates for product management interviews across several domains: - Product design evaluation covers goals & metrics, target personas, prioritization, creativity, and development leadership. - Estimation evaluation covers problem solving skills, communication skills, comfort with numbers, and judgment. - Metrics evaluation covers understanding, evaluating, and diagnosing metrics as well as affecting metric changes. - Behavioral evaluation covers the candidate's role and impact, achievement level, and communication skills. - Other questions evaluation covers communication skills, insights, creativity, and problem solving. The templates provide a 1-5 rating scale and space for interviewer explanations to standardize candidate assessments.

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PM Interview Evaluation Sheet PDF

The document provides templates for evaluating candidates for product management interviews across several domains: - Product design evaluation covers goals & metrics, target personas, prioritization, creativity, and development leadership. - Estimation evaluation covers problem solving skills, communication skills, comfort with numbers, and judgment. - Metrics evaluation covers understanding, evaluating, and diagnosing metrics as well as affecting metric changes. - Behavioral evaluation covers the candidate's role and impact, achievement level, and communication skills. - Other questions evaluation covers communication skills, insights, creativity, and problem solving. The templates provide a 1-5 rating scale and space for interviewer explanations to standardize candidate assessments.

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Interview Evaluation Sheet: Product Design

Downloadable copy for printing: bit.ly/InterviewEvalProductDesign

Rating 1-5
1 = Not like the candidate at all
5 = Very much like the candidate Interviewer’s Explanation
Goals & Metrics
Did the candidate define objectives before answering?
Were the candidate’s selections reasonable?
Target Persona & Pain Points
Did the candidate choose a target persona? Did the
candidate explain the persona’s pain points to the extent
that demonstrated true consumer insight?
Prioritization
Did the candidate demonstrate ability to prioritize
competing use cases or pain points convincingly?
Creativity
Did the candidate show creativity? Or were the ideas a
replica of competitive products and features?
Development Leadership
When asked, did the candidate reasonably explain how
to implement a proposed feature?
Summary and Next Steps
Did the candidate summarize their main argument at the
end, including clear next steps?

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Interview Evaluation Sheet: Estimation
Downloadable copy for printing: bit.ly/InterviewEvalEstimation

Rating 1-5 Interviewer’s Explanation


1 = Not like the candidate at all
5 = Very much like the candidate
Problem Solving Skills
Did the candidate take an unfamiliar problem and
develop a plan to solve it?
Communication Skills
Did the candidate communicate his or her action plan to
the interviewer? Easy-to-follow? Or did the interviewer
have to ask an excessive number of clarifying questions
to unravel the candidate’s thoughts?
Comfort with Numbers
Did the candidate confidently calculate numbers by
hand? Or was the candidate hesitant? Did the candidate
rely on using a calculator or computer to crunch
numbers? Or did the candidate oversimplify calculations
by needlessly rounding numbers?
Judgment
Did the candidate choose reasonable assumptions,
backed by logical thinking? Or was the candidate sloppy
in choosing assumptions, believing that reasonable
assumptions do not matter?

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Interview Evaluation Sheet: Metrics
Downloadable copy for printing: bit.ly/InterviewEvalMetrics

Rating 1-5
1 = Not like the candidate at all
5 = Very much like the candidate Interviewer’s Explanation
Understanding Metrics
Did the candidate have an understanding of product
metrics? Did the candidate provide a comprehensive and
relevant list?
Evaluating Metrics
Did the candidate articulate which metrics are better
than others, backed with sound logic and evidence?
Diagnosing Metrics
How was the candidate’s diagnosis? Did the candidate
provide an issue tree depicting drivers that affect that
specific metric?
Affecting Change on a Metric
Did the candidate offer a plan on how to influence
positively a metric, primarily through product changes
but perhaps through other levers, including marketing
and business development initiatives?

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Interview Evaluation Sheet: Behavioral
Downloadable copy for printing: bit.ly/InterviewEvalBehavioral

Rating 1-5
1 = Not like the candidate at all
5 = Very much like the candidate Interviewer’s Explanation
Owner vs. Participant
Did the candidate play a primary or marginal role?
Good vs. Great Achievement
Was the achievement impressive? Were the results
largely due to the candidate’s impact? Or would the
results have occurred, even without the candidate’s
involvement?
Communication Skills
Is the candidate’s story easy-to-follow and memorable?
Was it a struggle to extract information from the
candidate?

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Interview Evaluation Sheet: Other Question Types
Downloadable copy for printing: bit.ly/InterviewEvalOther

Rating 1-5
1 = Not like the candidate at all
5 = Very much like the candidate Interviewer’s Explanation
Communication Skills
Did the candidate provide a response that is well
organized and easy-to-follow? Or was it boring and
disorganized?
Thoughtful Insights
Did the candidate provide thought-provoking insights?
Did you feel smarter after talking to the candidate?
Creativity
Did the candidate show vision and imagination?
Problem Solving Skills
Did the candidate take an unfamiliar, unambiguous
question, problem or situation and provide a plan as well
as compelling leadership?

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PM Interview Cheat Sheet

Screenshot / Lewis C. Lin

I created a PM Interview Cheat Sheet just for you: bit.ly/PMInterviewCheatSheet

It includes frameworks for product design, pricing, metrics, strategy and technical questions. If I could only
bring one sheet of paper for an upcoming PM interview, I would bring this one.

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