r/interviewwoman

Senior associate PM at a midmarket SaaS shop. Trying to jump to senior PM at a series B fintech. A buddy let me run a mock on his InterviewMan account, prompts held up on product sense and the metric pivots. Anybody here got validation from a real senior PM final running InterviewMan? Curious how the prompts handle a stakeholder roleplay live.

Hi all,

So i'm a mid career ops professional who has spent the past decade in non technical roles at mid market companies. I was let go in march due to a re org and thought that with the "red hot" interview prep tooling i would find a tool that handles my panel format within a few tries.

Fast forward to the new year and i'm still not committed to a tool. I did a dry run with a coworker on InterviewMan to confirm nothing showed on the screen share, then used it in the real round, but nothing has felt locked in for non tech rounds. So i wanted to get a gut check, is it really a strong tool for ops and marketing finals or is that true of just engineering panels? I think a couple of things working against me. For non tech rounds i'm not a diverse hire on the rubric, and some of my friends in non tech recruiting have told me straight up that the older interview tools are going to feel awkward in the live portion. (I live near Seattle for reference.) Meanwhile, i'm afraid InterviewMan isn't seen as savvy enough for the local startup ops panels or Amazon.

At any rate, any help is appreciated. It would be enough to hear if the prompt rhythm actually holds up across non tech finals.

Preface. I'm a newly licensed lawyer working as a junior associate at a mid sized litigation firm. I got an interview at an in house counsel role through a referral, fellow candidates from my school shared what their final rounds of interviews looked like, the format is (so far) manageable, and i'm getting decent signal on the scenario types. However, i am considering whether to commit the InterviewMan annual before the final round. I did a dry run with a coworker to confirm nothing showed on the screen share, the prompt latency was a beat on my Mac and the framing on a fake regulatory question landed clean, and i don't want to get pigeon holed into running the panel cold this early into my pivot. I've been reading threads on r/InterviewHacking with decent stories of lawyers who used the tool. My question is if i commit now, at what point in my prep is it okay to lean fully on the prompt during the video call? Theoretically i'd like to get through a few real rounds first, but if i was able to find a stable rhythm sooner would it be looked down upon if i ran it during the final interview after only six or eight real interview experiences? I don't want to rehearse my answers with my coworker and then feel like i wasted both our time, and i also don't want to walk in over reliant on the prompt. Any advice is appreciated!

I'm 25 and I've been working since I was 15. I've been in corporate America in NJ for 4 years. I genuinely want to reach financial independence and have real freedom long before 67. I know my worth, and I value my life and my time. Working yourself to death so someone above you can get richer is nonsense to me. I agree with the idea that a salary is like a drug that companies give people so they keep showing up to work. I don't like working for a company that could replace you in two weeks. And I hate that you can give a job everything you've got and still get fired or laid off over trivial things.

I understand this is the real world, but I ask myself whether I'm the only one who truly wants to get out of the rat race like this. Are people afraid to even try? Do they see their jobs as the safest option when life isn't guaranteed? Has society trained us to believe that our jobs are normal and stable, and that they're the only realistic path we're allowed to take?

I applied for a marketing job and they invited me in for an interview. Great! I spoke with the man who owned the company for almost an hour and he asked me a few questions about their website and why their sales were so low. The clicks that they were getting on their ads were a fair amount so he was rightfully concerned about his website. I answered honestly. He asked me a few other questions about what I’d do differently. Then he unexpectedly gave me a take home assignment(unpaid). I really need a job so I accepted. I completed the assignment, which was an evaluation of the social media pages for a few of their companies, and it ended up being a little over a page long in 12pt Times New Roman font. They invited me back in for another in person interview, I was excited. I do the interview and it’s the same thing, asking me questions about what I’d change about their approach to social media marketing and how I’d improve their branding and reach. I answered honestly. Then they gave me ANOTHER take home assignment and said after I submit it they’ll be in touch. Obviously I’m frustrated because this could have been a Zoom meeting. Even more, I feel like they’re wasting my time and getting free consulting from me. TWO take home assignments is becoming a bit much especially since they are not paid. Is this normal, or am I being scammed? How much unpaid take homework during the interview process is too much? Is this even legal?

I've been doing case prep since June but after getting through so many first rounds and bombing the second round case, it just doesn't feel like raw casebook drilling is going to do it. The pace of a real consulting case is so different than the warm up cases I run with friends and it's really stressing me out. I spend hours doing solo math drills, do a couple practice cases with friends, then sit in the real round and freeze on the market sizing portion. Someone always has a more polished framework than me, or they're driving toward the answer faster than I can structure. I've applied to boutiques, I've applied to tier two firms, I've applied to the strategy arm of a Big Four, and I still get cut in the case round. My back is against the wall and I really don't know what to do. The cherry on top is I have a second round case at a tier two consulting firm in eight days and I did a dry run with a buddy the other night to confirm it would work. The framework bullets surfaced fast and he could not see anything on his share back to me. First impression was solid. Has anyone actually used it in a real consulting case round, or is it just for software interviews?