Why Smart Candidates Fail PM Interviews
You’ve shipped products. You’ve led cross-functional teams. You can dissect a metrics dashboard in your sleep. And yet you just bombed your PM...
You’ve read the job descriptions. You’ve seen the lists: strategic thinking, communication skills, stakeholder management, data-driven decision making. These traits describe every product...
Your roadmap is lying to everyone, and they know it
You’ve been there. Q2 planning, leadership asks for the roadmap, you spend two weeks building a Gantt chart that shows Feature X shipping in...
Your OKRs are probably just a feature list with a corporate rebrand
Here’s what happens in most product organisations every quarter: leadership announces it’s “OKR season.”...
You’re shipping slower than your engineering team can build. That’s the new problem in 2025, and it’s exactly backwards from how product development worked for the past two...
Your AI product will probably fail, and it won’t be the model’s fault
Here’s a pattern I’ve seen at three different companies: A PM gets excited about AI. They spec out a...