How to Crack the Google PM Interview | Full Guide from Gal Eshel (ex-Google, Microsoft)
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Key Takeaways
- Ex-Google PM Gal Eshel breaks down the 2026 Google PM interview loop, live coaches "tell me about yourself," and explained about Googleyness.
Gal Eshel was a PM at Google for six years and most recently was a principal product manager at Microsoft.
- The second half will be specific to PM and AI PM.
If you stay till the end, we will break down what Gal has been seeing in his coaching experience is the latest Google PM interview loop so that you can actually prepare for what you can expect in 2026, not outdated advice from a long time ago.
- This is not true because no interviewer knows everything and they need you to connect the dots and actually tell the story.
Now, if you don't do it for them, they will do it, and not necessarily in the way that you want them to do it.
- This later became more popular in a book in the early 2000s.
- Now, we don't want the interviewer to create some kind of story out of random facts that we tell them.
Almost none of it comes from someone who has sat on the other side of the hiring table. Gal Eshel was a PM at Google for six years and most recently was a principal product manager at Microsoft. What is Googleyness actually, and what are the stories interviewers are looking for?
It's one of the most elusive words in the job search. Just about everyone wants to land a job at Google, but everyone's kind of at a loss to explain what Googleyness is. That's why I'm really excited to have Gal Eshel on.
The first half of this video will be for anybody who's interviewing for any role at Google. The second half will be specific to PM and AI PM. If you stay till the end, we will break down what Gal has been seeing in his coaching experience is the latest Google PM interview loop so that you can actually prepare for what you can expect in 2026, not outdated advice from a long time ago.
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