APM Map 🗺️ is your one-stop destination for navigating your Associate Product Management (APM) recruiting journey. Discover resources on everything from finding APM programs to acing your final onsite interviews — all with the help of our incredible mentors.
Looks like most of the resources here are either:
1. horribly out of date (who cares about 2019 info?)
2. thinly veiled self promo
A bunch of the "mentors" are just people who recommend one resource, which is something that they themselves wrote. Many of these resources that are part of the mentor's "path" didn't even exist during the mentor's APM recruiting process.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is just a scheme to get more backlinks to people's sites, or pick up affiliate revenue.
As far as the fundamental product idea — How does it make it easier to learn what to do to become a PM when you have over 150 links, many of which have contradicting advice?
I wouldn't recommend this product to new PMs.
@kaylem_buckner ahh this is so unfortunate to hear and it's a shame the site didn't resonate with you! We appreciate the feedback, but do want to assure you (and other new community members) that we created APM Map with the intention to help out aspiring PMs on their often-unique recruiting journey.
Given everyone's journey is not a "one size fits all", this even includes hearing what could be contradicting advice from old and new resources alike. APM recruiting has become increasingly competitive and we believe that knowing others in the industry, and the ability to reach out to them or learn more about what resources they have (or would have) used is incredibly valuable.
Hey friends! 👋 Hope you've been taking lots of care ❤️
After working on APM Map 🗺️ for the past five months, Jeff & I are so excited to finally share it with the (Product Hunt) world 🌏
APM Map 🗺️ is the result of my journey into Associate Product Management (APM) - a.k.a. one of the hardest recruiting cycles I ever had to go through. After reflecting on my many interview failures & rejections, I realized that my life would've been 10x easier if I had all types of APM interview prep resources in one place for easy access & discovery. So in June 2020, this is exactly what Jeff and I set out to create 🥳
With APM Map, you can:
• Access a directory of 180+ APM recruiting resources (all for free!)
• Filter resources by Interview Prep stage — from applying to APM programs to acing your final onsite interview
• See what resources current APMs recommend, from companies like Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and more
If you're an aspiring PM looking to navigate the APM recruiting process → we write a weekly APM Map newsletter where we share tips for the APM recruiting journey, as well as ways to practice mindfulness & self-care in the midst of recruiting stress. You can sign up here: https://apmmap.substack.com/welcome
If you're a current PM and would like to be featured on APM Map as a Mentor → we'd love to have you! You can sign up here: https://forms.gle/RNSroNXR1KVYa3Ri8
Here's to finding your own path ✨
Nice work! Love the map concept/interaction on the directory page.
Would love to feature this on the Resources page of Break Into Product if you're open to it: https://www.breakintoproduct.org/
@mbusel We would love that - thanks for thinking of us, Matthew! We'd love to feature Break into Product on APM Map as well - we can add it this weekend :)
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