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“I started by trying to anchor on who actually needs this.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“This one got messy for me fast.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight into triage mode in my answer, which I think was right, but I spent too long on the technical side and almost forgot to loop in the customer-facing stakeholders.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to the API angle, talking about OAuth flows and surfacing profile data in the meeting UI.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I went straight to engagement metrics and kind of fumbled around DAU/MAU ratios for a bit before remembering to anchor on what Webex is actually trying to do competitively.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I fumbled the opening on this one.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“Had actually reviewed this the night before, which made it worse in a way because I felt overconfident and just started coding without walking through my approach first.” The rest of the author's notes on Software Engineer interview at Cisco, Technical Phone Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“The role play format threw me a bit.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Onsite - Product Sense / Strategy round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.

“I always half-dread this question because it sounds casual but you can really fumble it if you just pick something obvious and say 'it's intuitive.' Tried to pick something I actually use and talked through what the product does well from a user and business angle.” The rest of the author's notes on Product Manager interview at Cisco, Hiring Manager Screen round, covers how they worked through the question, what the panel pushed back on, and what they would do differently.