It’s great to read about how to do product manager interviews better, but few things will help you improve more quickly than practice interviewing with people who understand how product management interviews work.

If you’re looking to get feedback on how to improve, I offer a live course in how to improve your interviewing as well as one-off mock interviews with extensive feedback, but to put feedback into action you’ll need to practice. Below are three of my favorite resources for finding product management interview practice partners. In all cases, it’s conventional to spend half the time interviewing your practice partner, and half the time having your practice partner interview you.

StellarPeers

This free site consistently has active PM job search candidates looking for practice partners, and is the first place I recommend you look for practice partners. There is a short post-signup delay while your profile is manually approved, but otherwise it’s pretty pain-free. Several of my clients have had positive experiences with the site and none have reported it being negative.

As of November 2018, this is my highest recommendation for where to look for practice partners: it’s free and has good activity.

Product Management HQ

PMHQ is a paid (I’m not affiliated) Slack community for product managers and PM job seekers. The cost to join, as of November 2018, was a one-time fee of $25.

This community mainly focuses on PMs who already have jobs, and covers a lot of topics about getting better as a PM. However, there are chat rooms for resume review, job openings, and practice interview partners. Generally, this is an active place to find practice partners, but it can be slow at times. Several of my clients have had positive experiences with the site, but a few have complained of low activity in terms of practice partners.

PM Interview Practice Partner Community

Lewis Lin is a career coach who’s written a lot of great material on how to improve at PM interviews, specifically focused on large ultra-competitive companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon. This extremely active Slack community includes many people looking for practice interviews in the specific formats those large companies focus on. I’ve had a few clients report positive experiences with finding practice partners here, and none complain of any issues.

Recording yourself

If you’re not already giving yourself feedback, start here. Many people practice questions out loud, but don’t systematically examine their answers, which is a mistake because you can’t both give a great answer and give a great self-critique at the same time. Record your answer using your phone, watch it right away, and figure out areas to improve.