I Interviewed ChatGPT for a PM role, and it almost got the job 🤖

Dec 28, 2022

How to detect the AI’s confident but shallow answers.
The author interviewed a lot of product manager candidates, and one of the regular interview formats (which is pretty standard in a PM interview loop) is the product sense interview. Inspired by the recent launch of ChatGPT and the following tweet by Jackie Bavaro, I decided to interview ChatGPT for a product manager position.
The results that I got were impressive. ChatGPT’s answers were by and large reasonable, and cleared the bar for “decent” answers, certainly for more junior PM candidates. In fact, I would say that ChatGPT outperformed the average PM candidate with these answers. I am reproducing the entire interview below, followed by how I would evaluate these answers, and where ChatGPT fell short of great answers.

Time To Read: 14 Minutes

Published: December 2022

Link: I Interviewed ChatGPT for a PM role, and it almost got the job 🤖

Martin Slaney @MartinSlaney

The true measure of a successful product is not how well it performs in the market, but how much it improves the lives of its users. This requires a radical shift in how many think about product strategy, prioritising human needs over profit. #productmanagement

Microsoft has announced it’s making Excel’s autocomplete even smarter, at least in the web version that comes with Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365). Last week it announced formula suggestions and formula by example, both of which may help automate some things that you had to do manually.
Formula suggestions are pretty much what they say on the tin: if you type the equal sign into a cell, Excel for web will try to intelligently suggest what type of formula you should be using, given the data that’s around it. For example, if you have a full of quarterly sales numbers and a column at the end labeled “total,” Excel might suggest summing the range of cells. According to a blog post from Microsoft, the feature currently only works in English, and will suggest sum, average, count, counta, min, and max formulas. It’s not a groundbreaking feature, to be sure — Google Sheets has had something similar for a while, and Excel’s AutoSum has long been a quick way to apply formulas to data — but for some use cases, it could be a nice timesaver.

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