Struggling hard with product case brain dumps where you stare at an empty Zoom whiteboard. A Google PM mentioned their team uses structured teardown formats that force quick organization. Has anyone adapted these for consulting interviews? How do you balance Silicon Valley product logic with traditional case structures?
teardowns work because they’re stolen from real playbooks. grab the instagram growth model teardown doc floating around – it’s just MECE with tech jargon. trick is to mutter ‘aligning flywheel incentives’ while drawing boxes. interviewers eat that startup buzzword salad up.
Meta’s 5C Teardown Template reduces initial structuring time by 38% according to 2024 prep survey data. Key adaptation: replace ‘Community’ quadrant with ‘Competitor Cost Structures’. Requires mapping features to P&L line items within first 4 minutes – practice with fintech app case studies first.