Interview Amazon Technical PM interview

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Manager had only two years of product experience and rest was as SDE.

She was asking me more about how the backend was structured and where stored etc. I had high leave answers as PM but she was asking me to go deeper in details.

is it expected for PM to be technical ? This is the first time I had conversation that made me feel off.

however when I asked the interviewer what he required for the role, she asked for you need to be able to understand customer needs and build product strategy.

Nightly95 · Accepted Answer

Amazon has Product Manager (PM) and Product Manager-Technical (PMT) job titles. It's possible you applied for the one that was more technical, but also Amazon seems to use the PM title as sort of a catch all. Some of them are super technical, some of them are basically project/program managers, some of them are in between. It's a weird balance.

19g614kyvkhe5e · Answer

Independent of the requirements, PMs without technical expertise sometimes feel like glorified secretary/assistants, whereas PMs with technical experience are often the cornerstone of the team. If you’re interviewing, you’ll want to position yourself as the latter (and you should work on those skills independent of whether they’re required).

beerusgokugohan · Answer

Was this a PMT role? The interviews aren’t usually technical but they expect you to have high-level understanding of all the components involved. How backend was structured and data stored can be answered at a high-level as well. If they were expecting detailed answer then the interviewer was over indexing on something you don’t need to have.

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