Hi Diego, I really wanted to thank you for creating this video. I have always discounted my story thinking it’s irrelevant with product management and only focus on my current experience after I made the switch as a PM. I followed your pattern and I can finally be happy with my own story/journey . As a bonus, I landed a new job with this opening!
It's amazing how you stitched together everything in one smooth-flowing story. Your videos and LinkedIn posts are really helpful! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!!
Great video and information Diego thanks for sharing it! Could you please create/share your videos on different frameworks for prioritizing product features?
Hey Diego, can I just say the example your provided with the visual prop ( slide ) is the best I have seen so far? I have been working in product space for many years now and this is the first video where I could see simplicity backed with powerful words to define oneself for a PM role. Amazing!
This is one of the best “Tell me about yourself “ video I have ever watched. 🤗 Learned a lot of things in this single video. Can’t wait to binge watch other videos and learn a lot 👏😄!
¡Hola Diego! Thank you very much for this! Tomorrow I have my first Amazon interview and definitely I was not going to start good without this knowledge, thank you very much! I will update you :)
I follow you on Twitter for your tips and already find them plenty helpful. However this video is 100!! Highly insightful and easy to build my own story after
This is gold like your other videos. I connected with you over LinkedIn and spoke over the phone in the month of May. Happy to see that you are helping the community to break into PM roles, on a bigger scale.
Now I know the best way to answer the "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume". As product managers, we need to structure everything we do. After this kind of answer, recruiters will start to know our skills are related to product management.
Thanks Diego for the wonderful video. I really love the structure you've built in answering this question. Will use this structure the next time I respond to such a question... 😀😀
Oh man! The entire story is so beautifully crafted and so well explained. Absolutely love your work. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks for sharing. More power to you!
This is such a great video! I love love how you've simplified the format. I thought I had a great answer to this question already, but now its gonna be so much better :)
I was interviewing at a large well-known company and got this question. I started off talking about my degree, then experiences and products I shipped. After the question the interviewer was very aggravated. Their response was "It really shows your priorities that you would mention your degree before talking about actual PM experience. Of course you have a degree. Everyone I have interviewed has a degree. Who cares, you should have told me what you built". They also said university should be one of the last items on the CV. The interview ended after only 15m into a 1h time allotment. Did I dodge a bullet with a crazy interviewer/potential boss, or should one be more careful putting their degree upfront instead of metrics and products?
Wow, that’s a crazy thing! Imagine being completely disqualified because you mentioned your degree at the beginning… imo you dodged a very toxic environment
This is super helpful and very well articulated. I've been watching your videos to prepare for my PM interviews and they're adding so much value! Thank you! :)
That’s a good question. In the end, this answer should be concise and to the point - it has to be tailored to the role you are interviewing for so some parts of the experience can be summarized if they don’t directly have a lot of relevance to the role. for example: “.... the next 5 years, at worked at X, Y & Z companies where I learned about (skill 1)& (skill 2). In my next role I....” and continue with the story. You want to make sure your story is as related as possible to the role you are interviewing for
Thank you! This was helpful! However, out of the overall experience, if 7 years was into engineering and 3 years was into product management. Does one need to start talking about engineering first and then talk about transitioning to PM?
Yes! Start by talking about your experience in engineering and all the skills that you learned that are TRANSFERRABLE into PM :) Don’t focus just on the technical skills - focus on how your 7 years of experience in eng prepared you for a PM role. Does this make sense? Let me know and I can go into details if needed
Well, we are able to listen to audiobooks and watch movies for hours. If someone gets bored after 3 minutes of listening to someone’s story the problem is not the time, it’s the story 😉 5 minutes is, in my opinion, a hard max limit simply because an interview will consist of many questions. Remember, it’s not about time - it’s about how you craft your story ✌️
Does anyone else think these answers are very bland and all sound the same as what everyone else is saying? I would be very bored hearing these responses.
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Hi Diego, I really wanted to thank you for creating this video. I have always discounted my story thinking it’s irrelevant with product management and only focus on my current experience after I made the switch as a PM. I followed your pattern and I can finally be happy with my own story/journey . As a bonus, I landed a new job with this opening!
That's amazing! Thank you for sharing and congratulations on your new job!!!
Best Video on this first question which can make or break !!
this is gonna create a first impression so so better
It's amazing how you stitched together everything in one smooth-flowing story. Your videos and LinkedIn posts are really helpful! Thank you for sharing your wisdom with us!!
Thank you so much, Sukriti! I’m really glad that you liked it 😊
Epic X-Wing patent print! Nothing beats the Death Star Run in New Hope
Great video and information Diego thanks for sharing it! Could you please create/share your videos on different frameworks for prioritizing product features?
Hey Diego, can I just say the example your provided with the visual prop ( slide ) is the best I have seen so far? I have been working in product space for many years now and this is the first video where I could see simplicity backed with powerful words to define oneself for a PM role. Amazing!
Thank you so much @Ashima! I’m really glad that you liked it! 🙌🙌🙌 thank you for watching 😊
This video is gold
This is one of the best “Tell me about yourself “ video I have ever watched. 🤗 Learned a lot of things in this single video. Can’t wait to binge watch other videos and learn a lot 👏😄!
Wow, thank you! I'm really glad that you liked it!
Totally unrelated but I have the same painting thats in your background! I absolutely love all the paintings by that artist !!
Very well articulated, crisp, to the point, first time have seen such wonderful video.
Thank you, @Balaji! I’m glad that you liked the video 😄
Thank you for this video! This helped me simplify my introduction and transition into why I am interviewing for a new position!
Glad it was helpful!
¡Hola Diego! Thank you very much for this! Tomorrow I have my first Amazon interview and definitely I was not going to start good without this knowledge, thank you very much! I will update you :)
How about the interview? Hope everything goes well
I follow you on Twitter for your tips and already find them plenty helpful. However this video is 100!! Highly insightful and easy to build my own story after
Amazing way to put across introduction which aligns to a role interviewing for. Thanks a lot Diego.
This is gold like your other videos. I connected with you over LinkedIn and spoke over the phone in the month of May. Happy to see that you are helping the community to break into PM roles, on a bigger scale.
Thank you so much for your comment, Sai!
Now I know the best way to answer the "Tell me about yourself" or "Walk me through your resume". As product managers, we need to structure everything we do. After this kind of answer, recruiters will start to know our skills are related to product management.
Thanks Diego for the wonderful video. I really love the structure you've built in answering this question. Will use this structure the next time I respond to such a question... 😀😀
Glad it was helpful! Let me know how it goes once you use it :)
Oh man! The entire story is so beautifully crafted and so well explained. Absolutely love your work. Your videos are really helpful. Thanks for sharing. More power to you!
Thanks a ton!
It's helpful full, thank you
This is such a great video! I love love how you've simplified the format. I thought I had a great answer to this question already, but now its gonna be so much better :)
Thank you Alisa, I’m glad that you liked the video and that it’ll help you improve your answer! Let me know how your interviews go!
I was interviewing at a large well-known company and got this question. I started off talking about my degree, then experiences and products I shipped. After the question the interviewer was very aggravated. Their response was "It really shows your priorities that you would mention your degree before talking about actual PM experience. Of course you have a degree. Everyone I have interviewed has a degree. Who cares, you should have told me what you built". They also said university should be one of the last items on the CV. The interview ended after only 15m into a 1h time allotment.
Did I dodge a bullet with a crazy interviewer/potential boss, or should one be more careful putting their degree upfront instead of metrics and products?
Wow, that’s a crazy thing! Imagine being completely disqualified because you mentioned your degree at the beginning… imo you dodged a very toxic environment
This is super helpful and very well articulated. I've been watching your videos to prepare for my PM interviews and they're adding so much value! Thank you! :)
Thank you, Ishita! If you have any feedback or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks!
Really useful Diego! Thanks
As always, insightful!!
Thank you Ananth!
Really helpful video!!
Glad it was helpful!
Amazing video!
Thank you, Julie! I’m glad you liked it! 😁
I'm wondering how this should be framed for someone who has come with more than 10 years of experience
That’s a good question. In the end, this answer should be concise and to the point - it has to be tailored to the role you are interviewing for so some parts of the experience can be summarized if they don’t directly have a lot of relevance to the role. for example:
“.... the next 5 years, at worked at X, Y & Z companies where I learned about (skill 1)& (skill 2). In my next role I....” and continue with the story.
You want to make sure your story is as related as possible to the role you are interviewing for
Thank you! This was helpful! However, out of the overall experience, if 7 years was into engineering and 3 years was into product management. Does one need to start talking about engineering first and then talk about transitioning to PM?
Yes! Start by talking about your experience in engineering and all the skills that you learned that are TRANSFERRABLE into PM :)
Don’t focus just on the technical skills - focus on how your 7 years of experience in eng prepared you for a PM role. Does this make sense? Let me know and I can go into details if needed
I would love your help here as I go struggle with framing the narrative, where need to also weave in the job description
I think 5 minutes is too much, max 1- 2 minutes is what I think, interviewer loose the track and get bored in 3-4 minutes
Well, we are able to listen to audiobooks and watch movies for hours. If someone gets bored after 3 minutes of listening to someone’s story the problem is not the time, it’s the story 😉
5 minutes is, in my opinion, a hard max limit simply because an interview will consist of many questions.
Remember, it’s not about time - it’s about how you craft your story ✌️
Does anyone else think these answers are very bland and all sound the same as what everyone else is saying? I would be very bored hearing these responses.