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Decode and Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews Paperback – July 17 2019
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NEW 4TH EDITION NOW AVAILABLE. The new 4th edition of Decode and Conquer is now available: amzn.to/3qp2taB. The book listed here is the older 3rd edition.
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Introducing the 3rd edition
This is the 3rd edition of the classic product management (PM) interiew prep book, Decode and Conquer. Written by the world's #1 expert on PM interviews, Decode and Conquer is your starting point on how to conquer the most difficult PM interview questions. Here's what to expect:
- Frameworks for design and metrics questions including the famous CIRCLES Method™, AARM Method™, and DIGS Method™
- Biggest mistakes PM candidates make at the interview and how to avoid them
- Insider tips on just what interviewers are looking for and how to answer so they can't say NO to hiring you
- Sample answers for important PM interview questions
Expanded section on metrics & execution
The 3rd edition has an expanded section on metrics & execution questions. Empower yourself with the latest thinking, frameworks, and tips to cover this growing category of questions!
Questions and answers covered in the book
- Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet.
- Brainstorm as many algorithms as possible for recommending Twitter followers.
- You're the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber?
- You're part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites?
Endorsed by Google recruiters. Praised by Business Insider.
Decode and Conquer, especially CIRCLES™, has been endorsed by recruiters and top publications such as Business Insider. Top product management executives, including those from Google, Amazon, and Microsoft, recommend Decode and Conquer to PM job seekers.
Here's what readers say
You've helped many people in more ways than you know. I wish to do that someday in my own way.
Just wanted to share my gratitude for your work! Bought Decode & Conquer and enjoying every page. :)
I am a Zimbabwean who has been living in China for the last 8 years. No direct PM experience but your 2-week PM guide has been incredibly useful. I have also been reading Decode and Conquer which has gotten me up to speed really fast. Brilliant book!
I have just about finished your book Decode and Conquer and have found it to be enlightening. I feel that I already have drastically reduced the amount of PM interviews that I would have failed with a deer in the headlights look on my face.
Lewis Lin is the best. Just heard back from Uber, it’s a yes! 🙏 I had interviewed there twice before over the years, but it wasn’t until I encountered Lewis, his materials, and this community that I was finally able to crack it.
Your books helped me when I first got the PM job at Amazon. They again helped me refresh, alongside my gained experience, when I moved to Google. That, as you know, is through an interview process that’s notoriously one of the hardest in the industry. The shared wisdom in the pages of the book (even when I sometimes disagreed with the methods and answers) was extremely helpful.
- ISBN-100998120499
- ISBN-13978-0998120492
- Publication dateJuly 17 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions15.6 x 1.27 x 23.39 cm
- Print length199 pages
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Product details
- Publisher : Impact Interview (July 17 2019)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 199 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0998120499
- ISBN-13 : 978-0998120492
- Item weight : 325 g
- Dimensions : 15.6 x 1.27 x 23.39 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: #218,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Intranets & Extranets
- #26 in Industrial & Technical Chemistry (Books)
- #124 in Networking Textbooks
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

LEWIS C. LIN is CEO of Impact Interview, an interview coaching firm. Lewis was named by CNN as one of the "top 10 job tweeters you should be following." He has also been featured on FOX, ABC News, San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlantic, The Telegraph, and Business Insider.
Before Impact Interview, Lewis was Microsoft's Director of Product Management. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at Google, leading new AdWords product launches.
Lewis holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He also serves on the advisory board for University of Washington's software product management program.
Customer reviews
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I think the biggest drawback of this book is for anything involving business strategy or open-ended product questions, as there's next to no up-to-date examples included. For this reason, I would recommend reading this book in conjunction with another book called Swipe to Unlock. While Swipe to Unlock isn't a PM interview book, it was written by PMs at FAANG companies and it provides a hyper-recent overview of the latest tech trends, strategies and key insights for everything important that happened in tech up till around late 2019. It also breaks down a lot of more recent strategy questions involving all the top companies (eg. Why did Microsoft Acquire LinkedIn, Why does Uber continue to use Google Maps instead of building their own maps even as Google's self-driving cards continue to make advancements, etc.).
In my opinion, if you own the previous edition of this book, it's definitely not worth buying the new edition. However, if you haven't read this book, I think you should. Although some of the examples are outdated, the overview of the different types of questions you might get asked along with the example questions and answers are still helpful to review. Between reading Decode to Conquer and Swipe to Unlock, I have found myself extremely well-prepared for all the PM interviews I have had thus far (Google, Slack, Facebook and Pinterest).


Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 14, 2020
I think the biggest drawback of this book is for anything involving business strategy or open-ended product questions, as there's next to no up-to-date examples included. For this reason, I would recommend reading this book in conjunction with another book called Swipe to Unlock. While Swipe to Unlock isn't a PM interview book, it was written by PMs at FAANG companies and it provides a hyper-recent overview of the latest tech trends, strategies and key insights for everything important that happened in tech up till around late 2019. It also breaks down a lot of more recent strategy questions involving all the top companies (eg. Why did Microsoft Acquire LinkedIn, Why does Uber continue to use Google Maps instead of building their own maps even as Google's self-driving cards continue to make advancements, etc.).
In my opinion, if you own the previous edition of this book, it's definitely not worth buying the new edition. However, if you haven't read this book, I think you should. Although some of the examples are outdated, the overview of the different types of questions you might get asked along with the example questions and answers are still helpful to review. Between reading Decode to Conquer and Swipe to Unlock, I have found myself extremely well-prepared for all the PM interviews I have had thus far (Google, Slack, Facebook and Pinterest).


