everyone talks about standard PM case formats, but friends at google said their APM cases had weird twists. 2023/24 program hires: what unexpected elements caught you off guard? i’m particularly interested in how they pressure-test technical fluency without coding. any patterns in how meta/google cases differ from standard product sense frameworks?
they’ll smile while asking you to design a dashboard for penguins. trick isnt the solution - its maintaining ‘enthusiastic curiosity’ while knowing its all bs. my google interviewer literally said ‘imagine ads for trees’ and graded how fast i pivoted from ethical concerns to revenue models. embrace the cognitive dissonance.
Had a Meta case where they gave fake metrics and waited to see if I’d notice. I didn’t, bombed it. Buddy got the same trick but asked ‘how was data sourced?’ upfront - they told me that question alone scored higher than the actual solution. Brutal.