I applied online. I interviewed at highlevel in Dec 2025
Interview
The process is straight forward with three rounds.
i) First round is more around your work experience and your understanding of a recent product (There will be 3-4 interview panel members)
ii) Second round was project discussions, you can make your pick (Again 3-4 member panel, in my case same members joined)
iii) I believe this was an assignment and presentation round
• The experience during second round was somewhat frustrating for me, the interview panel members were solution heavy. When I was discussing about an product improvement case study, One went on to ask why the solution was not built in the first place.
• Another case study was related to Insurance-tech and this time the problem was customer focussed, but to my surprise few panel members were more worried about the insurance companies than the customers. The whole thing made me question their customer empathy.
• Another case study was discussed by me around first day uninstalls, but again to my pleasant surprise they were more worried about completely unrelated metric which had lot of other variables.
Overall it is more like pleasing them with aligning along with their thought process of project management and their choice of solutions. If you have a first principle approach around customer and problem first you are bound to get into ego battle.
Tip: Ask the TA to keep a good mix of product members, request for a senior guy that the role you are interviewing for. If you are a guy truly interested in solving problems this might not be the company, at-leat based on my interview experience.
Tip for the interview panel: Get a book and learn about problem based approach to product management. You are supposed to partner with engineering on solution not dictate the. Additionally great product companies build things progressively not in one go. If something look obvious now, not necessarily it was then given the context.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1. Product challenges you have solved at scale
2. Leading, lagging and north star metrics based problems
Biased interviewers - Product director. Rejecting without any proper reason. Doesn't ask much question, looking tired or forced to take interviews for sake, and ultimately reject the candidate without any reason.
The interview is run by people with barely any domain understanding. They cling to shallow, textbook questions because they don’t have the depth to evaluate real product thinking. Don’t expect meaningful assessment — the process is dominated by under‑experienced individuals sitting in roles far beyond their capability.