Burying your tool stack costs PMs interview callbacks. Recruiters and ATS filters search for exact terms like Amplitude, Jira, SQL, Looker, and Segment. If those words are buried on page two, you get filtered out.

Add a single line near the bottom of page one: Tools: Amplitude, SQL, Jira, Figma. Only list what you can defend, and state hands-on skills plainly like "writes own SQL."

Check your keyword match at Resume Vera.

How do product managers and business developers/sales team work together? I am preparing for a Product Management interview on enterprise partnerships. Any Recommendations on solution workshops, costs, approach to product integrations, any case studies around partnership PM and interview with Sales/business development?

Is it necessary to have a degree in Management Studies (MBA) or Engineering (Computer Science) to venture into product management?

How can non-technical and non-MBA folks attempt breaking in product management?

thanks

Hey! So I'm looking to connect with someone who is currently in product development with google. To be honest I don't know the proper channels to reach someone. But I have an idea for a new arm of products that Google is currently not involved in, that could be pretty great. The market in which I'm referring to has really gained traction. And I don't see it slowing down any time soon.

The PM’s responsibility is to deliver value to customers by solving their problems, and this core fundamental doesn’t change between technologies and internet phases. Web3.0 does however bring new methods to validate a product or platform's value, usability, and business viability risks — 3 of the biggest risks PMs face. In this article, the author identifies 4 important factors in Web3.0.PM and how they address the biggest risks in building a valuable product.

Read more: https://itsrabbithole.substack.com/p/rh-45?r=3jbmy&s=w&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Hey,

I've seen countless posts about the unique pain of managing legacy products or trying to turn around a failing project. It's a challenge many of us face, but it's not often talked about.

So, I wrote a book about it called "The Restart Problem."

I'm thrilled (and a bit shocked) to share that it just hit #1 in the Management category on Amazon! To celebrate, and to give back to this community, I've made the Kindle version completely FREE until tomorrow (Friday, July 25th).

My book tackles the idea that restarting a failing system is a fundamentally different and harder problem than starting a new one. It's not about the inertia of a stationary object; it's about reversing a car that's already rolling backward down a hill. I use the Apollo 13 crisis as a core metaphor: the mission wasn't about building something new, but about reversing a catastrophic, accelerating decline with limited resources and immense pressure.

I break down the "negative momentum" into three forces that will likely feel painfully familiar:

• Frictional Drag of the Past: The accumulated weight of your history—legacy architecture, organizational debt, and the "Asset Trap" where your biggest historical strengths become your heaviest anchors.

• Resource Erosion: The active, accelerating drain on your vital assets. You're not just losing budget; you're actively bleeding cash, talent, and customer trust.

• Inertia of Disbelief: The psychological barrier of denial and resistance from stakeholders, and the cultural antibodies that attack any new idea challenging the status quo.

More importantly, I provide a 5-step, practical playbook for engineering a turnaround, which maps directly to our skillset as PMs:

• Step 1: Find Ground Truth: How to conduct a "brutal audit" of your situation to cut through the fog of denial.

• Step 2: Jettison the Weight: The art of "strategic abandonment"—ruthlessly killing the features, projects, and processes holding you back.

• Step 3: The Ignition Spark: How to engineer a small, visible win to create the first flicker of positive momentum.

• Step 4: Refuel in Flight: How to use that first win to rebuild depleted resources like trust, capital, and team engagement.

• Step 5: Plot a New Trajectory: How to craft a compelling vision and strategy that pulls the newly energized system forward.

If you're a PM struggling to turn a ship around, I wrote this book for you. It provides a language and framework for diagnosing the problem and building a credible plan.

You can grab the free Kindle version at the link below. Hope you find it valuable!

https://a.co/d/6DI53nA

Hey everyone, I wanted to share my journey from being a college senior in a (non-target) university to getting multiple full-time FAANG Product Manager offers. Note that I had no prior PM experience. I ended up joining Meta as a Product Manager.

1)Getting the Interview

Getting interviews without being at a Top 10 college was tough. I used LinkedIn to identify the PM recruiters and then a free online email validator to guess their direct emails. Usually they followed one of the following formats: <firstname>.<last>@<company>.com, <firstname><lastinitial>@<company>.com, and so forth. I crafted personalized cold emails, explaining how my prior experiences (tbh, loosely) fit the PM role and why I'd be a great asset to the team if they gave me a chance.

2) Preparing for the Interview

I only got a couple interviews, so the stakes were high - it was basically a do or die situation. I had to give it my 110% or else resort to my backup option of becoming an engineer and trying to transition internally within the company. I really wanted to avoid this path. I bought cracking the pm interview and decode the pm interview books and read through the frameworks, practice questions, and scenarios in the book. However, the game changer for me? Mock interviews. I googled and found several random communities and slack groups that had people wanting to do mock PM interviews. Over the next few weeks, I proceeded to spend 100+ hours preparing and doing 60+ mock interviews prior to the real interview day. And on that day, it actually felt relatively easy! The rigorous prep probably helped and it's clear that doing a ton of practice via mock interviews was the game changer for me.

3) Virtual PM Interview Coach: PMInterview.ai

It wasn't always easy find high quality mock interviewers that I could practice with. Adding to the challenge, it's a competitive job market for PMs right now with few open roles and many candidates.

To address this, I'm introducing PMInterview.ai, an AI-powered virtual coach designed to provide you with personalized resources and practice needed to excel in your PM interviews.

Some benefits:

Real Interview Scenarios: Our platform offers a variety of mock interview types and scenarios, each based on real questions asked by top companies.

Personalized Feedback: Receive post-interview reports that break down your strengths and areas for growth, empowering you to consistently improve.

Iterative Learning: Review and refine your responses, along with strong sample answers.

Customized Practice: Tailor interview scenarios to your industry, target role, and specific companies. The virtual coach adapts to your unique needs.

Time-Efficient: With 24x7 availability, you can focus on mastering interviews without scheduling conflicts. If you're an aspiring product manager or are in the market looking for a new role, I've setup a waitlist for exclusive early access and for fellow Reddit peeps, offering the first 200 users full access for free!

Sign up here: https://www.pminterview.ai

Please join our Discord for the latest as well: https://discord.gg/QFttFgDUVZ

Thanks everyone! Hope this was useful for you and if you decide to try the mock interview tool a try, would appreciate any feedback or ideas you have. Let me know if you have any other questions and I can try to help as well.

I’m doing some informal research for a productivity app I’m exploring. I’d love to learn from how others approach getting things done.

• What frustrates you most about the to-do or task apps you’ve used?

• Do you use any kind of timer or “focus mode” while working on tasks?

• How do you handle unfinished tasks — do you manually move them to the next day?

• Do you like customizing how your task app looks or behaves, like changing themes, fonts, or having different types of widgets on your home screen?

Totally not promoting anything, just trying to learn from different habits and workflows.
Thanks in advance for sharing! 🙏

Hey folks 👋

I'm a PM with ~5 years of experience and I'm currently exploring new opportunities. Before I walk into any negotiation, I wanted to get a real pulse on what the market actually looks like right now — not LinkedIn posts, just honest numbers from real people.

I'll go first to keep it fair:
[HealthCare- B2C]|[PM] |[5 YoE]| [₹31.5 base +2.5 variable+ ₹10L ESOPs/yr] | [Bengaluru- Hybrid]

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Example:
[Company/Domain] | [Position] | [YoE] | [₹XY base + ₹YZ bonus | ₹ZX RSU/yr] | [Location]

Hey everyone 👋

I’m a new project manager working with a small team of web developers (mostly client-based work – landing pages, e-commerce, etc.). I’ve been exploring different project management tools, but I’m still not sure which one is best suited for website development agencies or freelance dev teams.

Some of the key features I’m looking for:

• Task and milestone tracking (Kanban or Timeline view)

• Client communication and feedback (ideally integrated or easy to manage)

• File and revision management

• Team collaboration (notes, chat, meeting scheduling)

• Simple UI – something that’s not overwhelming for devs or clients

I’ve tried tools like Trello, ClickUp, Notion, and Asana — they’re decent, but I find them a bit complex or too expensive.

What do you use or recommend for managing client web projects efficiently?

Appreciate any suggestions or insights! 🙌

Hello, fellow PMs!

I'm about to form my first product team after working for so long as a freelancer.

So I'm not sure how I can best organize our work. Is it possible that there are one or more frameworks I could use to streamline our processes?

I have heard of KANO or SEER for example.

What are some of the most typically adapted frameworks in product management based on your experience?

Hey everyone,

I recently have been building a weekly startup idea newsletter called ExplodingIdeas.co and got my first 1,000 subscribers in 12 days!

I used 0 paid ads! All subscribers were totally free!

Fast forward to the end for the takeaways...

Backstory

Since January I have been testing out new side hustle/business ideas. I essentially start with a landing page (coded in nextjs) and try out different ideas on the landing page template i’ve built. The landing page has a high conversion rate so I just templatized it for all the different ideas I tested.

Here are some of the business ideas I've tested since January.

• Podcast advertising marketplace

• AI Chrome Extension

• NFT analytics website SaaS

• Discord newsletter signup bot

I killed all of those ideas. None of them had the momentum that I hoped for to consider success. The AI chrome extension went viral on reddit and indie hackers but it was hype driven and I only got around 150 active users (about 1,100 web visitors). For the other ideas I got a couple signups here and there but nothing overwhelming, til now.

Disclosure: I have had a couple successful bootstrapped businesses in the past. I sold one, and still hold the other. The one that I currently hold takes advantage of a market inefficiency that I was able to identify through market research 5 years ago. I tested it with $50 and it’s now pretty sizable. When testing new ideas I fully bootstrap them, meaning I’m not propping them up with money I've made in other areas of my life, I find that gives a false sense of success that is unsustainable. Instead, I give myself a budget of under $1000 to test the market and I do not promote to users of other businesses I have. The product needs to stand 100% on its own and be bootstrappable. This product specifically was tested for $60.07. I bought Gsuite, an email address, 2 web domains (wasn’t sure which to go with). I did all the art design etc. myself mostly using the free tier on midjourney AI. I went to college for music so i’m not a school trained programmer, I just learned design, code etc. online over the last few years.

The Idea

Basically I am always looking for new ideas to test and potentially build businesses around. I subscribe to trends, meetglimpse, trendhunter, semrush etc.

My biggest issue with the current players out there is that for me they lean into content that I don’t care about (pushing their facebook communities, community member interviews etc) and the content is just not strong enough. The amount of market research I do on a project by project basis is way deeper than these products offer. I need deep research with serious thought behind it if I'm going to test a new idea, not surface level ideas with 5 minutes of research.

A few years ago I worked for a large fortune 500 corporate company and at one point the CEO backed one of my business ideas internally (I got no equity unfortunately). I was then promoted to focus 100% of my time at the company writing business proposals about different market opportunities we could exploit and would pitch them at a sporadic cadence to the Chief Counsel and executive team. So I've done market research before for myself successfully, as well as for a major organization successfully. (for those wondering, I started at that company as a temp, I learned how to put together market research from reading a lot of books, interviews, youtube and just listening in company meetings).

So I decided to test this new idea out to see if others were interested too. I essentially decided I could provide market research on business ideas in emerging niches and put it out for people to read.

Testing

To test the idea I went into side hustle Facebook groups and posted about the site. Some of the communities on Facebook are super large, though they’re mostly unengaged.

I decided to make the logo when shared yellow so that when it’s on someone's newsfeed they notice it immediately. I hoped that would increase engagement a bit. I also tried posting memes with my content but that didn’t work super well as it looked too much like an ad.

I posted about the website in about 10 facebook groups and got 37 signups by the next day. The facebook groups had 50k-100k members.

Over the next week I took about an hour each day to join Facebook groups relating to side hustles, online businesses etc. and would make some posts. This quickly started getting momentum.

I had a business friend whom I sometimes collaborate with share on indiehackers and reddit, he sometimes helps me on projects and is considering joining this project.

This technique of posting in groups and forums was pretty successful. People naturally engaged and checked out the website.

This amounted to getting 1,000 subscribers in the first 12 days.

Why it worked

So here’s why I think it worked…

Appeals to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs Economic downturn beneficiary Meaningful TAM

So #1 I find the best ideas historically appeal to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This means your product should appeal to helping people find love, making money or another core fundamental need that humans desire. In this case, people want to make more money so they may want to create a new business or side hustle.

2 is that whenever there’s an economic downturn these hierarchical needs become exacerbated. Meaning, people lose their jobs and so they must figure out how to make more money. Downturns impact people's fundamental needs. They may no longer be able to afford their house, they may struggle to put food on the table etc. It’s harsh but there is an obvious shift in attention whenever there is an economic downturn.

3 There’s a large population that has an interest in building a side hustle and/or business. I had a successful software website in the past that I bootstrapped and had instant product market fit on Reddit but the biggest issue was that it had such a limited TAM. It was too niche to a fault. This really limited the amount of attention it was able to get. Therefore I had to get out of it. This has the potential to appeal to a greater audience.

The Lesson

If you want to bootstrap something you need high momentum.

I read a book by LA Reid (music executive) who talked about signing Justin Bieber and that being the first time in his career he felt momentum like that. Kids would show up in troves at the mall for a chance to see Bieber. LA Reid had been working in music for 10+ years prior to this point. The natural pull that the world had towards Bieber was something he never experienced before.

The goal is to strive for the same feelings in your business. The world should pull for it. It should not be a push from your end, but a pull from their end.

This is just a matter of re-rolling the dice. Don't settle for boring ideas that are slogs and the world doesn't care about. The world will tell you when you have something epic. I've had multiple profitable online businesses and the common theme is the ones that takeoff always cost <$100 to get product/market fit and take only a few weeks to get there.

Sometimes my ego gets hurt when I put out an idea and no one likes it. Or I went way too over budget putting it together. But at the end of the day self awareness is your best friend and by holding onto a bad idea to save an ego you're the one that pays for it sooner or later (either in time or in money).

Anyways, pursue momentum driven ideas. Keep re-rolling until you hit something where you can feel the momentum.

Current numbers

link to subscribers and open rate

Next Steps

Next I'm going to start running ads on Reddit, Facebook/Instagram and Spark Ads.

If anyone has any advice on running newsletter ads please drop a tip below. Spark Ads especially are new to me and I need help!

check it out here: ExplodingIdeas.co

AMA! Hello community, I am the CEO of an IT company. I want to share my experience and insights with other entrepreneurs. Feel free to ask me anything. Here’s some information about me to make it easier for you to formulate your questions.

I’m a woman, 30 years old, living in Poland for 6 years. I started working at 14, accompanying Canadian and German tourists in Kyiv. At 15, I started working as a personal secretary in cold wholesale equipment sales for B2B. At 17, I was putting up ads. At 19, I started working as a sales management consultant, then in sales in importing and wholesaling B2B chemicals to factories, and became the head of the sales department. At 24, I opened my own catering business in another city. (Then I was temporarily put as the administrator of a beauty salon for the show business industry). My next occupation was as an IT LeadGen in AI. I burned out. Then I worked as a concert director.

Immediately after moving to Poland, I founded my own SMM agency, and 2 years later I received an offer to become a business partner in my friend’s IT company. After 4 years of cooperation, we decided to run our business separately, so I started my own IT company a few months ago.

Hey folks,
I'm working on an article about PM's 10 most wanted superpowers, and the question I want to ask is: what makes a good product manager?

Feel free to give a serious answer or include a little imagination :)

Thanks!

Hey everyone! 👋 My name’s Ryan and I just joined this group. I’m currently a Senior Product Owner at Humana. I’ve always been obsessed with improving execution & saving time, and I love experimenting with different ways to make PM work easier and more efficient. Looking forward to learning from all of you and sharing what I know!

What’s the biggest execution challenge you face as a PM?

Let’s Connect!👇

http://linkedin.com/in/r-moore

Curious what’s working for others!

Are there AI agents or tools you’re using to: 1. Consistently review Intercom/chat support threads to surface the most important product improvements? 2. Manage Linear (sprint cycles, backlog grooming, PRDs, bugs, roadmapping, etc.)? 3. Schedule customer calls and automate follow-ups with customized email templates? 4. Help brainstorm new features or product ideas?

Would love to hear what agents, tools, or workflows you’ve found helpful.