Jackie Bavaro
@jackiebo
📙 Cracking the PM Interview 📒 Cracking the PM Career 👩🏼💻 Previously Head of Product Management @ Asana, PM @ Google & Microsoft.
Apologies for the self-promotion, but I want to make sure everyone knows about @gayle and my second book, Cracking the PM Career. We wrote it for early, mid, and senior PMs to become better PMs, increase their impact, and get promoted.
But there's another even more important reason to learn to program. That's how you get ideas for startups: when you look around the world with a programmer's eye, you see all the things that could be built but haven't been yet.
PROMPTING TIP: To create PRDs/prompts for Replit apps, ask an LLM to "do research on docs.replit.com and optimize the app for Replit"
I just published Cracking the Behavioral Interview: What are they really looking for? open.substack.com/pub/jackiebava…
“what do you think of our business model?” so many candidates can walk through “tell me a time when…” just fine, but have put zero consideration into how the company they’re interviewing to join makes any money. You want to find folks (esp in product) who can think through…
What’s the absolute best interview question you’ve asked or answered?
Trying to take advantage of not getting much Twitter distribution by trying out new things. Had xAI Grok 4 help me with the thread below. Feel free to tell me if I should never do that again 😂
Nail the dreaded "Tell me a project you're proud of" in PM interviews? It's trickier than it sounds—what separates a standout story from a forgettable one? In my new post, I dissect 4 mock answers from an interviewer's lens. Which ones impress... and why do others miss? Let's…