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      Associate Product Manager Interview

      Mar 13, 2024
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Difficult interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA) in Apr 2020

      Interview

      "Worst Interview Experience EVER!! I just want to let people know about the horrible treatment I got from the hiring manager (a current product manager who started off as a software engineer at Pocket Gems). The rest of the recruiters I spoke to were super nice and this is not a reflection of them as a company. But if you are being interviewed by this guy, BEWARE! First of all, the position that I was interviewing for was for "Associate Product Manager" and all he asked me were complex engineering and mathematical questions so the content of the interview wasn't even relevant. It was unfair to judge my product skills based on these unrelated questions. Are they expecting product managers to be engineers as well? That probably explains the lack of good experience of this product. I was very confused!!! Also, he was in general extremely judgmental and rude.. When I initially hopped on the zoom interview, I had my camera on along with my professional smile.. you know as you do when you are just excited for the opportunity and ready to give your best.. and when he got on the zoom, he just crushed all my innocent enthusiasm when he specifically told me that he doesn't want to see me and instructed me to turn off my camera.. that is just inhumane.. I expect hiring managers to make the candidates feel welcome and comfortable at least at the beginning of the interview. I mean don't you want to greet the other person in an interview at least? He was extremely curt in answering any questions that I had and all his answers had a tone of degrading meanness. I, as an interviewer, felt extremely uncomfortable and unwelcome and honestly discriminated. The interview was for a software engineer more than a product manager which also tells me a lot about their product. Cause if technical engineers are in charge of dealing with the product vision, it is probably gonna be a horrible product and maybe it isn't that great of a product due to this reason. The purpose of my review isn't to ruin the reputation of this person but to make candidates aware and prepared before being interviewed or possibly working at Pocket Gems especially for this person.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      All of the questions were completely irrelevant to the position or the description so any prep most people make is completely pointless. For the future PM interviewers, I would suggest also preparing for some engineering questions beforehand. Ridiculous, I know!!
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      Other Associate Product Manager Interview Reviews for Pocket Gems

      Associate Product Manager Interview

      Jan 4, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA) in Sep 2021

      Interview

      Application: I applied online and the process took 2 weeks in September 2021 Interview: As other reviews go, I was also given a take-home assignment a week after I applied for the position. What stood out to me was that there was no initial screening where I could discuss my background/interests and learn more about the company. However, I still moved ahead with the assignment which was supposed to take 2-4 hours. It took me more than 7-8 hours to do this assignment which was both fun and challenging. Everything was smooth until this point. The recruiter was active in communicating any deadlines and was responsive if an extension was needed. However, after submitting the assignment, the recruiter stopped replying to my emails. After a week, I got the standard rejection email without any feedback. I emailed them back asking for feedback because I feel that's the least any applicant deserves after investing hours in doing their assignment. I would recommend them to mention about the take-home assignment early in the interview process so that the applicants are prepared to go through this not-so-informational process.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Data analysis for the take home and questions on the kind of games you like and what changes would you recommend to them
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      1
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      Pocket Gems response
      4y
      Thank you for providing feedback on your experience. We really do appreciate the time and effort you invested in the take home assessment. Unfortunately we are unable to provide specific feedback for each test but can share that our team considers several factors when reviewing homework. Wishing you all the best!

      Associate Product Manager Interview

      Oct 27, 2021
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      San Francisco, CA
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 2 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems (San Francisco, CA) in Aug 2021

      Interview

      First of all, without any HR screening call, they threw me a homework. Yep, one of the worst HR behavior. How can you ask someone to contribute without communicating expectations, match, salary, and many other important things? But I did it anyway. The homework is a game design + data analytics assignment. It says it should take around 2-3 hours (can't remember exact number), but it actually took me >10 hours. Some knowledge on Python/R is required to do well on the homework. I passed homework and enter the HM interview. That guy was a PM for War Dragon, and he's so indifferent. No greetings. He was emotionlessly reading the questions from a paper. He did not give any feedback on your answer, and when you ask questions like "which direction do you want me to go further", he didn't really answer them, and he just hurried into next questions. The interview was boring to death. I failed at HM round, but on my side, I also vetoed this company. I can't feel this company's passion or respect on talents. Their HR was super slow too. And to be honest, I just don't get what's fun about their games. Good luck on their talent hunting.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      Game design questions asking your favorite games and how would you improve them (homework). Data analytics questions on what insight you can conclude from their dataset (homework). Probability questions asking you to choose a best solution based on given data (interview).
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      2
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      Pocket Gems response
      4y
      Thank you for taking the time to share your experience and perspective with us. We value candidate feedback to help us be aware and continue to make improvements to our process. Wishing you all the best.

      Associate Product Manager Interview

      Mar 11, 2022
      Anonymous Interview Candidate
      No offer
      Negative experience
      Average interview

      Application

      I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Pocket Gems in Aug 2021

      Interview

      Contacted via e-mail about the role. The recruiters are very quick to respond and will reply with a lot of detail about the process. There was no initial phone screening and only a take-home assignment with a 1-week deadline. Next round was a 1:1 interview with a PM that gave a brainteaser about how to win a slot machine tournament. At the end of the interview, I knew I didn't give the PM the answer I wanted and was promptly given a rejection the next day.

      Interview questions [3]

      Question 1

      (Take-Home Assignment) Explain some UX/UI changes you would make to your favorite game.
      Answer question

      Question 2

      (Take-Home Assignment) Analyze the data and what recommendations you would give leadership.
      Answer question

      Question 3

      How would you win a slot machine tournament?
      Answer question
      1
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      Pocket Gems response
      4y
      Thank you for sharing your experience with us. We are sorry it was not the outcome you were hoping for, but we do appreciate you taking the time out to speak with us. Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors.

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