The PM Blog
Career insights, interview tips, and industry trends for Product Managers.
Annual Planning: A PM's Survival Guide
Planning season is here. How to come out of it with a credible plan, protected capacity, and your sanity intact.
Explaining Career Gaps Without Apologizing
Career gaps are normal now. Here's how to explain yours in two sentences and move on.
Job Searching While Employed
Searching while you have a job is the strongest position there is. Here's how to run one without blowing up your current role.
Interview Red Flags: When to Walk Away
Interviews run both ways. Here are the warning signs that a PM role will be a bad job, and how to exit gracefully.
Understanding Equity Compensation
A plain-English guide to RSUs, options, vesting, and how to value equity honestly when you're weighing a PM offer.
The Final Round: Executive Interviews for PMs
What VP, CPO, and founder interviews actually test, and how to show up with a point of view instead of a script.
Questions to Ask in Your PM Interview
Your questions get evaluated too. Here's what to ask each interviewer, what their answers reveal, and which questions to skip.
Take-Home Assignments: When to Do Them, How to Win
A reasonable PM take home assignment is worth doing well. Unpaid spec work is worth declining. Here's how to tell them apart and win the good ones.
The PM Phone Screen: First Round Guide
The recruiter screen and hiring manager screen are different games. Here's how to win both.
Working with Recruiters: A PM's Guide
How PM recruiters actually work, how they're paid, and how to make them work for you instead of around you.
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