Best product manager interview prep resources

Why interview prep matters for product managers

A PM interview tests a different skill than the job itself: not whether you can run a roadmap over months, but whether you can reason clearly out loud, under time pressure, with a stranger judging every sentence. Builders Camp's Product Interviewing bootcamp exists because that gap is real and coachable. Its three live sessions, built around week by week slide decks, work through the core interview types in order rather than treating "PM interview prep" as one undifferentiated skill: product sense and design questions, execution and metrics questions, and behavioral questions that ask you to prove leadership through a specific past decision, not a general claim about your style. The practical challenge and certification quiz that close the bootcamp exist for the same reason mock interviews dominate this resource list: reading a framework and being able to use it live under a clock are different skills, and only one of them gets tested in the actual interview room.

What should I read first if I am new to product sense interviews?

• The definitive guide to mastering product sense interviews, Lenny Rachitsky and Ben Erez. Widely considered the single most thorough public breakdown of what a product sense question is actually testing and how to structure an answer. Read it
• The definitive guide to mastering product sense interviews (audio), Lenny's Newsletter. The same guide as a podcast episode, useful if you want to absorb the framework while commuting instead of reading. Listen to it
• How to Prepare for a Product Management Interview, Stanford Online. A free, university published overview aimed at people preparing for their first PM interview loop. Read it
• Product Manager Interview Prep: 5 Steps, IGotAnOffer. A five step sequence from an interview coaching company, useful as a study plan skeleton if you do not already have one. Read it

Where can I find structured study plans, drills and mock interviews?

• Product Manager Interview Prep: 2026 Study Plan, Exponent. A dated study plan that sequences product sense, execution, strategy and behavioral prep across weeks rather than leaving you to guess an order. Read it
• Product Management Interview Prep Course, Exponent. A paid course built around the same study plan, with structured lessons instead of a blog post's worth of guidance. See it
• Product Management Mock Interviews, Exponent. On demand and peer mock interviews specifically for PM roles, the closest substitute to a real interview loop before you are in one. Try it
• Product Management Interview Prep Drills, RocketBlocks. A drill based platform with real interview questions sourced from PM leaders who have hired at companies like Google and Amazon. Try it
• Top 10 Resources for PM Interview Prep, Lewis C. Lin. A curated list from the author of a well known PM interview question bank, mixing free and paid resources rather than pushing only his own material. Read it

How Builders Camp teaches product interviewing

Product Interviewing is a two week bootcamp with three live sessions, each built around a week's own slide deck, plus a practical challenge and certification quiz. It does not treat interviewing as a single skill: the sessions separate case style product sense questions from execution and metrics questions and from behavioral prep, on the reasoning that a candidate who is strong at product sense but has never structured a STAR answer will still stumble on the behavioral round. The bootcamp fits naturally alongside our PM interview questions guide and the company specific breakdowns for Google and Amazon, which cover the questions themselves; the bootcamp covers how to build and rehearse the answers.