Category Archives: Product

I’ve been getting a TON of questions about how to prepare for domain specific product management interviews for Google Cloud, and honestly I don’t have a straightforward answer. But I’m going to attempt it anyway. To begin with, per my understanding, the domain specific interviews are unique to PM roles in Google Cloud. As GoogleContinue reading “Domain specific interviews for Product Management roles in Google Cloud”

I spend hours, nay days writing a thoughtful, well-researched blog post and it gets zero attention. But it’s this hastily written post about landing a PM role at Google that went viral. Such is life I guess. I gained a lot of new subscribers too—thank you for your support! If there’s specific topics you’d likeContinue reading “Onboarding to a PM role at Google”

I rang in 2022 with exciting news – I joined Google as a product manager! I work in the Google Cloud team, with a focus on Technical Infrastructure that powers Google Search, Ads and YouTube among other Google applications and services. Google has always been a holy grail company for me. This might be inexplicableContinue reading “Tips to land a Product Management role at Google”

Software is eating the world Marc Andreessen immortalized the phrase in his essay in 2011. An updated version of that statement today might be “cloud is eating software”. Moving to the cloud (especially if you didn’t already start there) has become a no-brainer for an entire class of companies. Despite the challenges of the transition,Continue reading “Cloud is eating software”

I recently shipped the biggest feature I have ever shipped. In the grand scheme of things it wasn’t even that big, but I wrote the first version of the product requirements in February 2020 and the feature was announced to the world in April 2021. The gestational period of this thing was longer than thatContinue reading “Forest or the trees?”

When asked about for advice about product management, I almost always preface my answer with “well, it depends” likely on one or more of the following Company size, type, stage, culture Manager, team Product type, stage Your background, work experience A good product culture is a confluence of these factors, and then some. Ken NortonContinue reading “Five questions to identify a good PM culture”

It recently occurred to me that I’ve been in the tech industry for almost six years now. Practically an infant when compared to most people, but a veteran compared to some. Charting professional growth without benchmarking on pay and title is difficult for me, but I wanted to do this exercise to see how muchContinue reading “Measuring personal growth as a product manager”

I was catching up with my friend and fellow alum from UCLA Anderson, Harshal Patil (product manager at Twilio) about how work was going, and I was bemused by how different our jobs are even though we’re nearly identical on paper i.e. both engineers, MBAs, and now product managers at enterprise tech companies. We thought this wouldContinue reading “Internal-tooling vs customer-facing product management (at Twilio and VMware)”

This blog has been rapidly gaining subscribers, for which I am excited and grateful. At the same time, I’m also realizing that my posts are starting to get preachy and while it’s nice to act like I always know what I’m doing, I really don’t. When we write things down, especially for an audience, thingsContinue reading “Three reasons why I’m not a great product manager”

I love asking my colleagues and friends in product management what they read to keep working on their craft, and I get asked this question fairly often too. I’ve regurgitated the same answer on various forums so I figured I would document it for everyone. My general advice on this is that less is more.Continue reading “Keeping up with product (blogs, newsletters)”