UWPM Newsletter: UWPM is back for the winter term!
Edition 10
UWPM is back on campus for the Winter 2024 term! We had a busy fall term hosting ProdCon 2023 and several networking events, but we also have many exciting plans lined up this term. This edition will contain a few updates from UWPM this term and recruiting advice for summer PM internships.
Also, make sure to stop by our booth at the club fair today if you haven’t already! We’ll be at booth 29 until 2 pm :)
🗓 Upcoming Events:
UW PM Live Case Studies 👥 — Thursday Bi-weekly:
UW PM Live Case Studies is a biweekly event designed to immerse participants in real-world product management scenarios and gain valuable insights through group discussion. Stay tuned for more details :)
📍Discord (Invite Link)
📰 Tech News:
Apple Vision Pro pre-orders start today (Jan 19th) in the US.
Last month, Google announced Google Gemini, their largest AI model yet.
📙 Resource of the Week:
Exponent has a list of interview questions asked at many tech companies with members contributing their own answers.
Many of the interview questions and answers are available to everyone for free making it a great interview prep resource!
🔍 Product Opportunities:
Product opportunities for Spring 2024 are rolling out! Check out some of the top opportunities on our radar:
Amazon Robotics Tech Product Manager Internship
Microsoft Product Manager Internship
Oracle Product Manager Co-op
T-Mobile Product Management Internship
Keep checking your target companies for info-sessions and opportunities. Good luck!
🚨 Recruiting Advice for PM Internships
Here are a few helpful recruiting tips I’ve gathered from many PMs and PM interns!
Tailor your resume towards PM roles
Try to focus on and emphasize initiative, decision-making, outcomes, and metrics. Highlight technical skills that are often useful in PM roles such as data visualization and database languages. Good soft skills to emphasize include negotiation, strong verbal and written communication, stakeholder alignment, adaptability, and empathy.
Keep up to date with industry/tech news
This is helpful for answering a question that’s asked by many interviewers “What are you most excited about in the tech industry right now?” In addition, being familiar with the product or industry means you can show your industry knowledge and your ability to understand the respective user needs and business goals — even better, show that you’re interested in the company and its current projects.
In product-thinking questions, ask clarifying questions
Don’t be afraid to ask lots of clarifying questions in product-thinking questions. It can help show your thought process and product sense, especially if you’re asking questions to clarify business objectives, desired outcomes, and user needs.
Apply to product-adjacent roles
Since PM internships are highly competitive even if you have previous product experience, seeking internships that are related to the product development process or internships that use similar soft skills will still provide you with great experience and skills that can help you secure a PM internship for your next co-op. These include: CX, consulting, UX/UI design, business/product analyst, data analyst etc.
🧑💻 Thinking Like a PM:
In this last segment, we will leave you off with an activity to practice your analytical minds. In a Product Interview, you’ll often be asked questions in the format: Design X product for Y consumer. A general structure to answering this question is to ask any clarifying questions, identify the key user problems and objectives, and ideate design solutions to these user problems. Evaluate these solutions and prioritize features based on your business objective. Remember to show a user-centric mindset and product sense in these questions!
Feel free to reply with your answers!
📌 Join our Discord Community
Want to connect with other students such as yourself interested in Product? Join our Discord Community, Invite Link Here. Use our Discord Community to connect with other students and alumni to learn more about different opportunities in Product, practice mock interviews + resume critiques and more!
👋 Feel free to reach out
Thanks for following us along this journey! We hope you learned something from this edition of the newsletter. Feel free to drop a line to introduce yourself and reach out if you have any questions.
Until next time,
- UWPM Team