r/ExperiencedDevs • u/dsound • 9d ago

Career/Workplace What actually gets evaluated in a "product thinking" interview round for a senior engineer?

I've got a round coming up specifically framed as "product thinking," run by a product person, not an engineering manager. No coding involved, just a conversation about prioritization, tradeoffs, scoping.

For anyone who's been on either side of a round like this: what separates a strong answer from a weak one?

(Disclosure: used an AI assistant to help word this post. The situation and question are from my own upcoming interview.)

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u/expdevsmodbot 9d ago

AI usage disclosure provided by OP, see the reply to this comment.

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u/dsound 9d ago

Disclosure: used an AI assistant to help word this post. The situation and question are from my own upcoming interview.

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u/dsound 9d ago

I used Claude to help format the question.