Cruise Product Manager interview experience

But once the conversations started, I realized my expectations didn’t match what was actually being practiced under the “product manager” title.

In the PM interviews, the questions stayed very generic and didn’t go deep into product work the way I was expecting. I was surprised by how basic it felt—more like they were testing familiarity with the concept of the work rather than the actual decisions and tradeoffs that product roles typically require.

I didn’t receive an offer. What lingered was the impression that the PM function here operated more like a TPM-style role in practice, and that