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About the Course

Prepare to impress in your product management interviews by taking this course. You'll learn tips to showcase your skills and PM knowledge directly from the experts who hire and promote top PMs, and practice for your interview using real PM interview questions asked by companies including Meta, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon! Hear how to impress in the interview process from industry-leading experts including: * NANCY WANG, General Manager of Data Protection Services, Amazon Web Services; * BOB O'BRIEN, Senior Product Manager, Amazon Web Services * JENNY TAI, Director of Product, Jam City; *NANCY GESSLER, Product Management, Learning Products, Amazon Web Services * TATYANA MAMUT, Chief Product Officer, Nextdoor * SANDY CARTER, Vice President for Worldwide Public Sector Programs, Amazon Web Services Sponsored by AMAZON WEB SERVICES (AWS). This is the fourth of four courses in the ACE Recommended Real-World Product Management Specialization. When you complete all four courses, you can earn up to 6 college credits....

Top reviews

PT

Jul 20, 2022

Very helpful with getting started on finding and getting prepared for the PM interview. Also the mapping your professional network lesson was very insightful as well as the mock Interviews.

MN

Apr 14, 2023

Full of unique experiences from product leaders of the world. Thanks, Coursera, thanks AWIT, and thanks Nancy Wang for her dedicated work as the main trainer. That was a great journey!

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By RN

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Dec 24, 2020

I appreciated the interview preparation in this course, especially the Amazon and Google mock interviews. As with all the other courses in this specialization, the peer graded assignments were helpful to reinforce concepts learned through the videos. Nancy and AWIP, thanks for developing these courses. I look forward to applying the knowledge I have gained in the real world.

By Vera T

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Jan 29, 2021

I got Product Management certification by finishing Real-World Product Management Specialization that was prepared and lead by Nancy Wang, a Head of Product at Amazon (AWS), who also was a Product Manager at Google and is a CEO and Founder of Advancing Women in Product (AWIP). Nancy shares her knowledge gained throughout her career in those extremely successful companies.

The specialization is a combo of 4 courses to learn product management from different perspectives: customer obsession, market sizing, competitive analyses, success metrics (like KPIs, OKRs, North Stars, A/B/n tests, NPS, CSAT, CES, cohort analyses, LTV, pricing, and financials), etc.

The big advantage of this course is it helps you to create your own portfolio through studying all 4 courses by developing your own product using real-life PM tasks during product management lifecycle from inception till launch. Each task takes about an hour. This work is peer-reviewed and you get real feedback. Even though it is quite time-consuming to do those practical assignments and peer review assignments of other students, it helps to get practical knowledge and learn things by doing, which is especially extremely important for folks who want a transition to a PM role and have no real experience yet.

Another advantage is that you get trained using real PM interview questions. Nancy shares questions from giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft and helps to master their Behavioral, Product Design, Strategy, Estimation, and Technical interview questions.

Also, it was super useful to listen to interviews and panels that Nancy did with successful senior Product Managers and Leaders in Product where they shared their experience, insights, and tips for PM career, things they are looking for in PM candidates.

On top of that Nancy shares great sources for networking to advance your career as a Product Manager.

I highly recommend every Product Manager to take this up!!

Thank you to Nancy Wang and the rest of #AWIP for putting this course together!

I learned so much that I am excited to take into my current and future roles.

By Lavanya Y

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Aug 13, 2021

I could sense the genuine attempt to virtually mentor and prepare the learners for interviews at a level so granular , I was pathetic at networking and the emphasize given here to consciously build that network methodically has built confidence in me that I can improve on it for sure and it isn't something that is beyond me and my nature. The webinar and Sandy carter's talk did open up a lot of perspectives.

Again , my sincere thanks to Nancy Wang and Team for putting this together for learners like me. Enjoyed the whole journey through this specialisation , now challenge is on me for how I am going to use to improve my every day work and career path.

If I can change one thing , I would have liked access to this video and materials even post course completion for easy reference.

Another issue , I am facing and per the discussion forum many like me are facing is the time it takes to get an assignment reviewed in uncertain and the fear of that impacting the subscription expiry time costing us an additional month is more. right now I have completed everything but waiting for grading while my subscription expires tomorrow and the support team is no easy to access

By Meghavi V

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Mar 31, 2023

It was one of the great sessions where all the leaders and Senior PMs along with the VP of various organizations were sharing their PM and career experiences over various scenarios. I have not imagined this will take longer but I am so happy to be a part of this course. A special thanks and appreciation to Nancy Wang who guided all the aspects of PM and helped with Mock interviews and all levels of questions.

I knew I have to go ahead in the PM career but was not confident enough as I am from a Marketing career. Now as I have pursued this Specialization, I am confident, Strong, and bold to take that next step in my career. I am already serving as an Associate Product Manager but this course helped me hone my skills and knowledge in the PM area. And, I am all ready to dive deep into the PM role helping customers get the right product and organization get the market share in a product niche along with better future insight alongwith helping my team grow. I think I can go and appreciate whole for this course I am grateful about.

By Diana C

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Jan 20, 2022

I highly recommend this course as it has loads of great content, interviews and exercises that are directly applicable to Product Management. I would recommend this course to those that are already familiar with PM as it draws from people’s experience rather then setting on the theory of Product Management with all the possible things you could be doing in that role.

The last module is for those looking to break into the PM role at one of the big tech companies. Amazing practical content throughout! Thank you, Nancy!

By Olga F (

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Feb 10, 2021

It was a very useful experience for me, the course is great for beginners in product management.

I think it would be great if you added information about customer support, SLA, SLO, etc. And a little bit about monitoring and writing postmortems - these are two of my favorite topics, but it would be great to learn how it is done in the best companies in the world.

By Ioana M

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Feb 5, 2021

The content in these 4 courses is unrivalled in the breadth and depth of knowledge they offer. Nancy presents theory approaches to PMing, mixed with the right level of Technical information for this level - and at every opportunity presents real-life case studies (often from guest PM speakers!) to really bring the courses to life. Couldn't recommend more!

By Vincenzo C

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Jun 27, 2021

Fantastic course! i have more clear understanding of the interview process .Now i have clear understanding of the technical required for the Product Manager (the certification path showed in the video). Also was very interesting the last part of course about the Customer Proxies and metrics, a very beatiful topic.

By Luana R

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Nov 24, 2022

Very useful insights about how to pass product management typical questions. This kind of questions can also be asked in other context, so I think that on a HR point of view, this course can be precious and help people pass different types of interviews

By Jennifer A

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Oct 20, 2021

Thank you Nancy, AWIT and AWS for creating this specialization. I can't wait to put all of my learnings from the courses to use! I also really enjoy the AWIP’s PM interview app and plan to use it heavily to prepare for my interviews!

By Zakir S

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Jun 9, 2021

Really like the great job done by Nancy Wang in putting together these courses and her interviews with other product folks from different companies to give us insights on how to get into product management or how to get better at it.

By Cheikh S N

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Feb 10, 2021

This class will take you to the professional world of product management by deepening your thinking and understanding of product management and also preparing the interview in a credible and practical way.

By Mohammad N

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Apr 15, 2023

Full of unique experiences from product leaders of the world. Thanks, Coursera, thanks AWIT, and thanks Nancy Wang for her dedicated work as the main trainer. That was a great journey!

By Gloria O T

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Dec 2, 2022

Very insightful and quite practical. Easy to understand but can be broken down in more simpler terms so that newbies in product management can have a proper understanding

By Jayakumar K

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Jun 11, 2021

The areas and depth covered in this course are very helpful. Although some of them were paced faster, but it does serve as a reference in the future. Thank you so much.

By Bahadir K

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Oct 1, 2020

Nancy is a great leader talent and I learned a lot from her just from these courses. I cannot imagine how wonderful it would be to work with her. Wonderful!!

By Gordon Y

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Sep 15, 2020

Wow! Never before have I seen a Coursera course take this active a role preparing students for their next interview. Coursera needs more courses like this.

By Joey ( K

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Dec 20, 2020

This course was packed with practical exercises and thought-provoking talks from guest lecturers. Would highly recommend this to any PMs or future PMs!

By Emily B

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Oct 4, 2022

I really liked these courses. They were informative and I felt that I learned a lot. Video recording myself really pushed me out of my comfort zone!

By Kierra A

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Apr 6, 2021

Very helpful for learning about the product management interview process. I would recommend it to anyone hoping to brush up on their skills!

By Tisa H

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Jan 24, 2021

This has been the best specialization I've ever attended, it really prepares you for Product role. Thank you AWIP for making this!!

By Keith

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Nov 11, 2021

Nancy has been a treasure trove of experience and knowledge drops, thanks so much for this well-thought-out course

By Ihsan A

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Dec 28, 2021

An amazing journey to complete the course. Thank you for the exceptional content and for sharing the knowledge

By Carla P

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Nov 14, 2021

Glad to have completed this course and excited to venture into this career. Thank you for this certification!

By Yael W

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Jul 22, 2022

A lot of useful and inspiring information. It would be even better if include CV guidelines and examples.