Get Hired as a Product Manager | Applying & Interviewing (Udemy.com)
Complete guide to applying, researching, & interviewing for a Product Management job. + Mock interviews & insider tips
Created by: Cole Mercer
Last updated December 2025
What you will learn
- How to answer interview questions like a Product Manager
- How to find & apply to the right Product Management positions
- How to write an effective Cover Letter for a Product Management position
- How to organize and optimize your resume or CV for Product Management applications
- How to research a company and a Product Manager position prior to your interview
- What questions to expect and prepare for prior to a Product Manager interview
- How to correctly tackle Product Management behavioral interview questions
- How to use the PAR / CAR framework to better answer "tell me about a time when" questions
- How to correctly tackle Product Management product creation interview questions
- How to correctly tackle Product Management estimation interview questions
- How to correctly tackle Product Management instructional interview questions
How it compares
Against the other 54 rated Udemy courses in Product Management on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 94% of them
- Reviews942#22 of 55 by number of reviews
- Length9.3 hourslonger than 74% of them
- Last updatedDecember 2025earlier than 51% of them
Course Description
The role of "Product Manager" is currently one of the fastest growing, most in demand, and best paid positions in the entire tech industry.
Fastest growing: Companies are expected to hire an additional 2,000 Product Managers this year, and this rate of hiring is expected to grow +20% for every year afterwards (Glassdoor currently ranks Product Manager as the #4 hottest hiring position in the US).
In Demand: There are currently over 3,000 open Product Management positions in companies all over the world
Best Paid: Product Managers get paid on average $112,000 a year, with some companies paying closer to $192,000 a year even for junior level positions. This is on par with software engineers (!) despite the role being entirely non-technical.
Do you want to become a Product Manager?
If so, you'll have to navigate the notoriously difficult application and interview process.
Take home case studies, brain teasers, and multiple rounds of interviews are typical if you want to get hired for any Product position.
How you tackle these hiring challenges makes all the difference, and we're here to guide you through the entire process step-by-step.
A successful Product Management application doesn't just consist of knowing the right answers and what questions to expect.
To truly maximize your chances of landing the role, we took a holistic approach to the entire process: finding suitable roles, building your brand prior to applying, submitting applications, getting the interview, researching companies pre-interview, acing the interview, completing take-home work, and then deciding on the best offer.
What's included in the course?
We'll take you through the entire process for finding, applying to, and acing the interview for a Product Management position.
We'll cover:
How to think like and get inside the mindset of a Product Manager before you even start the process
How to find the right companies & positions to apply for
How to optimize your resume / C.V., and cover letter for getting Product Manager interviews
How to research and prepare for each Product Manager interview
How to complete case studies and take-home work, if needed
How to tackle the big 5 types of Product Manager interview question types: behavioral, product creation, estimation, analytical, & instructional.
How to impress your interviewers by reverse interviewing them and ask good questions
How to follow-up post interview and spot any red flags that might change your mind about the role
How to hit the ground running when you do get a job offer and start your Product Manager role
Included as bonuses:
• A full mock interview (Apple) with walkthrough instruction from beginning to end
• 2 interviews with students that recently were hired as a Product Manager where they share insider tips
• A full interview with a Product team lead in charge of hiring for all Product Roles
• A full walkthrough of Product Creation / Design question (1 hour long)
This course is perfect for those applying to their first Product Manager role, as well as anyone interested in transitioning internally to Product AND existing Product Managers who want to apply for a new Product role either internally or externally.
Why learn from us?
We've successfully helped over 148,000 students learn about Product Management, and over 1,000 students get hired or transition into a Product Management role at companies like Airbnb, Google, Facebook, Spotify, Oracle, IBM, and Amazon.
Our courses on Product Management are the largest in the world, with a community of over 100,000 prospective and current Product Managers enrolled.
Your primary instructor, Cole Mercer, has been a Senior Product Manager at companies like Soundcloud, Bonobos, and Mass Relevance. He's interviewed 40+ times for Product Management roles for companies like Google, Facebook, Palantir, Netflix, and even Udemy.
Your instructors
Cole Mercer has been a Senior Product Manager at Soundcloud, Bonobos, Mass Relevance, and has taught the Product Management course at General Assembly in Manhattan, NYC. He is now a full-time Product Management and Strategy consultant.
Evan Kimbrell is a top rated Udemy instructor with numerous courses focused on Entrepreneurship. His courses have over 630,000 enrolled students and more than 32,000 five star reviews. For the past few years, he has also been running a digital agency that has produced over 100 web and mobile products for Fortune 500 companies and startups.
Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
942 Reviews
Cole Mercer
Howdy, I'm Cole!
I'm happy to be a Udemy Instructor Partner with over 270,000 students worldwide on Udemy and over 1.6 million in total across all platforms.
I found my love for teaching in 2015 and have courses across Udemy and LinkedIn Learning where I am lucky enough to be rated a top instructor on both platforms.
I'm currently working at Dynamo Air Systems building precision autonomous heavy lift tandem rotor drones with a significant hard tech / deep tech core and plenty of aerospace and manufacturing components.
I'm also still a product management, strategy, and artificial intelligence consultant with a history of helping companies with over 5,000 employees on all of the above.
In the past I was a Senior PM at an AI API company called Perigon, and before that a VP at Semrush holding the position of Head of Product for the Academy division - the company was a public one with over 1000 employees.
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Reviews
By Hariprasad Manepalli on 7/29/2024
Topics are covered from all the perspectives, students like me who are not aware of any possible scenarios to be a PM, this course will lead us in a comfortable path and will help us to understand better. Happy to be a part of teaching staff. Kudos for overall efforts for entire team in designing the course effectively. Hope one day I can see myself landing on a PM role.
By Kavita on 5/28/2024
Unlike other course, Cole just did not throw the list of question but explained "why" behind the the questions which is great! It makes you follow along the course and make you use your brain while going through the course.
By Mark Harada on 12/7/2023
The breakdown of the process of interviews in this specific video lecture seems accurate. I've just had a recruiter interview me for a PM position 2 days ago, and he outlined the next steps of the evaluation process. It exactly matches what Cole said here.
By Joseph C. Reynaldo on 4/5/2023
Very fun and entertaining course, sort of innovation and creative way of student's engagement. Also, I really like the mock test part and some real-life insight on what it does to be a real PM. by interviewing real PO and your former student... thanks a lot...
By Christian Meadows on 8/14/2022
Love the course and TV a structure it gave to help prepare for an interview. It made me more confident, gave me a framework to easily share my experience with and connect with my interviewers. Thanks!
By Imri Sofer on 8/5/2022
Fantastic class for everyone applying for PM positions! Cole and Evan, please consider incorporating: • A section where you interview the hiring side (hiring managers, recruiters, etc.) • A section where you discuss ATS tools and tips on how to format your CV correctly for them • A section where you discuss job titles and the nuances of having them across different caliber companies
By Chris Willis on 4/6/2022
This course offers relevant and actionable interview strategies to help you respond effectively to advanced interview questions. Even if you are an experienced job seeker, you will leave the course feeling more confident and prepared for your next interview -- and that's a huge step toward demonstrating your capabilities and landing the job you want.
By Aditya Anupam on 2/6/2022
Some sessions are too long. Mock interview answers were practically possible to give during a an actual interview as its almost 30min for 1 question. Preferred actual/more real approach. Tips/tricks were missing. But still thanks for providing some useful guideline. May be more details in other course.
By Marek Kulesza on 12/28/2021
It was structured, funny and very practical. I would love to see more from those guys. I was transisioning from ceo of small startup to product manager role one year ago. The basic course made me land the job at first attempt and now im improving my skillset using this advanced courses.
By Rheden John Royo on 10/2/2021
As always, the duo provided an engaging lecture and really practical insights to the Product Management role. I'm only at 20% but I'm confident that the quality will be carried throughout.... as they did on their other 3 courses.
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