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Interview Prep Checklist

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·2 min read·Planted Feb 2026
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Core Preparation

Daily Tasks

Product Management Focus (5-6 hours)

Behavioral Preparation (2 hours)

  • Prepare stories covering:
    • Professional strengths and weaknesses
    • Challenge resolution examples
    • Key achievements
    • Core values and principles
    • Learning experiences and mistakes
    • Non-work leadership examples

Product Analysis (3-5 hours)

  • Deep dive into 6-7 products analyzing:
    • Core user goals and use cases
    • Key pain points and opportunities
    • User personas
    • Current solutions and competitors
    • Areas for improvement
    • Success metrics

Technical Foundation (1.5 hours)

Problem Solving Practice (1.5 hours)

  • Practice:
    • Estimation questions
    • Analytical problem decomposition
    • Structured solution approaches
An evidence checklist pairs role research with identified capabilities and open questions, behavioral preparation with a specific action-and-outcome story, mock practice with feedback and a revised answer, and logistics with confirmed arrangements and tested equipment. It does not prescribe a number of preparation hours.
Hours alone do not show what you can explain in an interview. This illustrative checklist names reviewable outputs for research, stories, practice, and logistics; it does not validate the time allocations above. Original diagram based on MIT Career Advising & Professional Development, Interview Primer.

Mock Interviews (2-4 hours)

Further reading

  • MIT Career Advising & Professional Development

    Interview Primer

    Check your examples, employer research, practice and logistics before the interview.

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