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Shishir Mehrotra00:04:56
“A group of scientists have invented a teleportation device. They've hired you to be their business counterpart, bring this to market. You could be a product manager for this thing. What do you do? Usually people will start asking a bunch of questions. At some point I'll say, they will answer only two of your questions. What two questions do you ask?”

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Eeke De Miliano00:03:36
“To what do you attribute your success? And you can't say luck. Because I think humble people will always say luck in some way, and I always kind of want to know, how self-aware are you, basically, and how curious are you?”

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Nikhyl Singhal00:16:25
“What's something that everyone takes for granted that you think is essentially hogwash or inaccurate? I'm always looking for people to break this sort of interview mindset. There's no way to answer that question without being genuinely opinionated.”

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Paul Adams00:20:00
“What feedback will I be giving this person in their first performance review? It's an amazing question, because the person can't dodge it. There's an answer, and it's incredibly enlightening.”

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Shishir Mehrotra01:27:15
“Pick a product. Your favorite technical product. And the constraint is, it can't be something that you built, worked on or competed with. It's got to be in the space that you're not an expert in. Design the one-page dashboard for that product. If you're the CEO, general manager, whatever, you run that product, what's on the dashboard? Why?”

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Shishir Mehrotra

Shishir Mehrotra01:27:43
“You've been hired by a competitor to design a me too version of product. What is the bare minimum of what you need to build? And then, you ran out of resources. You get a quarter of the time and a quarter of the team. What do you actually build? And then, you've decided you can differentiate in only one place. What do you do to differentiate?”

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Shishir Mehrotra

Julie Zhuo00:35:00
“When you're hiring designers, the portfolio is important, but the way they talk about their work is even more important. Can they articulate why they made certain decisions? Can they explain the tradeoffs? The thinking behind the work tells you more than the work itself.”

Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management · Julie Zhuo

Cutting Room Floor

Guest insights on this topic that Lenny hasn't (yet) written about in his newsletters. Potential material for future posts.

Shishir MehrotraUnsynthesized
“A group of scientists have invented a teleportation device. They've hired you to be their business counterpart, bring this to market. You could be a product manager for this thing. What do you do? Usually people will start asking a bunch of questions. At some point I'll say, they will answer only two of your questions. What two questions do you ask?”

Interview Q Compilation · Interview Q Compilation

Eeke De MilianoUnsynthesized
“To what do you attribute your success? And you can't say luck. Because I think humble people will always say luck in some way, and I always kind of want to know, how self-aware are you, basically, and how curious are you?”

Interview Q Compilation · Interview Q Compilation

Nikhyl SinghalUnsynthesized
“What's something that everyone takes for granted that you think is essentially hogwash or inaccurate? I'm always looking for people to break this sort of interview mindset. There's no way to answer that question without being genuinely opinionated.”

Interview Q Compilation · Interview Q Compilation

Paul AdamsUnsynthesized
“What feedback will I be giving this person in their first performance review? It's an amazing question, because the person can't dodge it. There's an answer, and it's incredibly enlightening.”

Interview Q Compilation · Interview Q Compilation

Shishir MehrotraUnsynthesized
“Pick a product. Your favorite technical product. And the constraint is, it can't be something that you built, worked on or competed with. It's got to be in the space that you're not an expert in. Design the one-page dashboard for that product. If you're the CEO, general manager, whatever, you run that product, what's on the dashboard? Why?”

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Shishir Mehrotra

Shishir MehrotraUnsynthesized
“You've been hired by a competitor to design a me too version of product. What is the bare minimum of what you need to build? And then, you ran out of resources. You get a quarter of the time and a quarter of the team. What do you actually build? And then, you've decided you can differentiate in only one place. What do you do to differentiate?”

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra of Coda, YouTube, Microsoft · Shishir Mehrotra

Julie ZhuoUnsynthesized
“When you're hiring designers, the portfolio is important, but the way they talk about their work is even more important. Can they articulate why they made certain decisions? Can they explain the tradeoffs? The thinking behind the work tells you more than the work itself.”

Julie Zhuo on accelerating your career, impostor syndrome, writing, building product sense, using intuition vs. data, hiring designers, and moving into management · Julie Zhuo