General Resume Questions Flashcards
Tell me about yourself.
Sure, I’d love to. I’ll start with a bit about my career.
I’m currently a senior product manager at Visa, where I’ve worked the last 3.5 years. I’m working right now in Visa’s consumer product organization, working on building out our credit and lending products. My mission right now is to deliver more transparent, frictionless and contextual credit experiences to consumers via our banking and merchant partners. At the same time we are trying very hard to grow our business in credit in Europe, because in many markets credit isn’t well accepted by consumers and in the markets that it is, MasterCard and our competitors have the share. EU is a really competitive market for the end consumer with the growth in startups and innovation in the space, and I love the challenger here where if you don’t deliver a good consumer experience to customers, they will leave you.
I’ll tell you a little about some of the projects that I’ve been working on. I’ve been very focused on the consumer experience and its variations across the 35+ markets I cover. I’ve launched several consumer-focused proof of concepts including:
- An API set that allows third parties to offer instalment plans to consumers
- A financing checkout widget
- Progressing on others including a lending marketplace & an instant lending origination platform.
Prior to being offered the role in London, I worked within our Global Products organization in SF headquarters. I partnered with strategic global product initiative teams to become a PM focused on new product ideation and global expansion. This function was new within the organization (historically there has been pretty poor link between HQ and regional offices) - so I had the opportunity to launch cool products while also building out new business operational process (new marketing and sales enablement processes) that improved internal communication and product roadmapping.
Prior to that, at Visa I was on a strategy and operations role under senior leadership of North America that allowed me to enhance executive presentation skills. I became interested in product during this time and took some JavaScript and front end we courses to beef up tech skills.
Went to UC Berkeley and studied in Santiago, Chile in college which allowed me to get global exposure and strong writing and communication skills.
In my free time I’m a cofounder of a company that is working to make it easier for restaurants to work with food ordering and delivery apps. I’m also a wine lover since my family is originally from Napa and am busy exploring Europe.
Right now I’m looking for a product management role with a rapidly changing company. I think my experience as
Why do you want to work here?
Good place to show you have done company research, have relevant experience, and passion.
Relevant experience:
- I’m really attracted to google because in my time at Visa I’ve understood how challenging and exciting it is to identify new product ideas and roll them out at global scale.
- I’ve see parallels in challenges with new form factors and cross-device challenges
Company research:
- Google has a demonstrated ex
- I understand the company is also facing pressure to innovate into areas beyond its core business
Passion:
- Committed to the mission of making information more accessible to access
Why should we hire you?
Why you are a good PM, a good fit for the space/industry, a good fit for company culture and work environment. Some of the areas I’ve understood from the recruiter as key to success as a Google PM are: product design, product strategy, analysis, and technical fundamentals.
Product design:
- Demonstrated success as a PM:
- Experience working at global scale:
Product strategy:
Analysis:
Technical fundamentals:
Three reasons that make me a good fit:
Several years of experience as a PM, consistently shown success in the role and led to expansion in roles and responsibility.
Do you have any questions for me?
Company
- Biggest challenges google is facing right now? Does data privacy and regulation news impact you much?
Role
- What product line are you focused on, and how do you see the differences across consumer, mobile, apps, enterprise, and infrastructure?
Your experience
- Tell me about your career path and interests, and what impact Google has made on you so far.
- Really care about teams, tell me about the people you work with and how they inspire/challenge you.
What do you do in your free time?
Show some relevance to position and passions.
I really enjoy reading and exploring new technologies. One area of interest for me as the on demand economy - this turned into me starting a new company with a mentor I worked with in SF.
Why are you leaving your current job?
The EU branch of company is still going through a lot of transition from when it became a public company, and I’m not finding the learnings and pace as challenging as it was in SF/
Behavioral questions.
Create a preparation grid.
Master 5 key stories.
