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1. Mini Case - Very similar to the example sent by the recruiting team. They ask a few product behavioral questions to assess your skills specifically related to prioritization and profitability. 2. Job Fit Interview - They ask you to select one product that you have worked on and the whole interview is about that product right from strategy to implementation. They were looking for more technical skills like describing the architecture of the product and I didn't have much expertise in that area.
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Principal Associate Product Management

Interviewed at Capital One

Sep 7, 2023

1. Mini Case - Very similar to the example sent by the recruiting team. They ask a few product behavioral questions to assess your skills specifically related to prioritization and profitability. 2. Job Fit Interview - They ask you to select one product that you have worked on and the whole interview is about that product right from strategy to implementation. They were looking for more technical skills like describing the architecture of the product and I didn't have much expertise in that area.

Describe a time you made a mistake. Describe a time when you had to figure out how to get around technological limits or issues. Describe a time when you had to reevaluate a project you were working on and how the project changed.
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Senior Principal Communications Specialist

Interviewed at Capital One

Jul 7, 2021

Describe a time you made a mistake. Describe a time when you had to figure out how to get around technological limits or issues. Describe a time when you had to reevaluate a project you were working on and how the project changed.

On interviewer spoke broken english and was very hard to understand, asked textbook and theory questions and not in a very clear process, seemed like he Googled and wrote down a bunch of questions from a search to ask prior to the interview, saw notes and theory written on a legal pad. Asking questions on free body diagrams, mechanics and thermodynamics, like write and explain Gibbs free energy equation and explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Did not ask too much that would be used daily as the job was described, the theory can be referenced in a book or Googled when needed, people do it all the time and little is used daily unless you work in a research. No applicable skills and appears this person was a recent fresher with not too much practical experience in the field.
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Senior Staff/Principal Mechanical Engineer

Interviewed at Arlo Technologies

4.4★
Aug 16, 2018

On interviewer spoke broken english and was very hard to understand, asked textbook and theory questions and not in a very clear process, seemed like he Googled and wrote down a bunch of questions from a search to ask prior to the interview, saw notes and theory written on a legal pad. Asking questions on free body diagrams, mechanics and thermodynamics, like write and explain Gibbs free energy equation and explain the three laws of thermodynamics. Did not ask too much that would be used daily as the job was described, the theory can be referenced in a book or Googled when needed, people do it all the time and little is used daily unless you work in a research. No applicable skills and appears this person was a recent fresher with not too much practical experience in the field.

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