How to Crack PhonePe APM Interview | Career Transformation | TPF

Welcome to Season 2 of 'Breaking into Product Management', a series where we speak to APMs or early-stage Product professionals on their journey so far, to give you an insight and some tactical tips that might help you to start your career or shift into product management. We have Shuchi Yagnik, an APM at PhonePe for this edition.
Shuchi is an MBA graduate from ISB. Before Phonepe, she earlier worked with Accenture as a Technology Consultant and with CIIE (Incubation centre of IIM Ahemdabad) as a Program Analyst where she helped fintech startups build scalable tech solutions. In this edition, she will share her interesting journey into Product Management and learnings on the way.
00:00 - Introduction
02:55 - Why did Shuchi choose Product Management?
04:20 - Interview Season at ISB
06:07 - Why did Shuchi choose PhonePe?
07:30 - Is MBA necessary to be a PM?
10:09 - Hiring rounds at PhonePe
14:25 - Duration of each rounds
15:51 - Preparation tips for every round
18:08 - Specific resources for case study rounds
19:20 - Life of an APM at Phonepe
22:05 - Product team structure at PhonePe
23:45 - PM work: Solo or Collaborated?
25:11 - Myth about Product Management
26:30 - Tip for PM aspirants that is NOT in the books
Shuchi's LinkedIn Profile:
/ shuchi-yagnik-611015a9
Resources shared by Shuchi:
- StellarPeers (stellarpeers.com)
- Exponent (tryexponent.com)
- The Product Folks (You are at the right place :))
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[@vanitalari7896]

Thank you so much it's very helpful

[@tushar_kushwaha]

Thank you both

[@DevashishMulye]

Hey, good interview. I liked the PhonePe specific questions (especially the interviewees day-to-day and team structure). Your description says to leave feedback in the comments . Following is a generic feedback I have for these videos.
These interviews are always high level and not directly actionable. You'll come up with the same content the next time when you get a new PM from a diff company. I think you can jump into the specifics or functional details of the matter a little bit more.
For example, the interviewee touched upon the fact that PMs must understand the customer. But you didn't dive into her experience at PhonePe wrt how she went about developing this understanding. She mentioned that PhonePe engages with small merchants and BFSI . These are two interesting yet different types of customers. Did she go on the ground? Did she find a lot of sub-segments within merchants? How did the interviewee navigate the enterprise driven BFSI space. That would've made for an interesting conversation.
She mentioned stakeholder management. You could've dove deeper into what are the stakeholders in a BFSI, what are the strategic partners etc.

[@TheProductFolks]

100% agree and we'd love to (in fact you can find a lot more about this on our Product Conversation series)
Although folks would love to share it here as well, sometimes they need to get approval to share a bunch of these on record. Also specifically trying to cover the breaking into PM bit here
But point taken - will try to dig deeper on the next one! Thanks for sharing your thoughts, really helps :)

[@MrMjeeth]

Definitely it helped....thanks @schuchi and @Chief resident intern....

[@fozailahmad5208]

How to get the mock interview

[@shivamaurya672]

is it work from home job?

[@youththeconfuse5549]

Hey anyone here ,
I have q
Since PM is considered as a mini CEO of any product ..
Then how someone who has do any course are able to get in PM .
I mean is it possible ..
To join program and learn basic and get a job