Want to find a product manager internship, don’t rush to read books and long articles with professional vocabulary, and don’t need to sign up for classes to learn prototype tools like Axure. First, understand what product managers do.
The professional essence of a product manager is to push behaviors and industries that have not yet realized informationization in society to informatization
For example, e-commerce products, make shopping behavior informatization; taxi products, make travel behavior informatization; takeaway products, make catering industry informatization
So what product managers are doing is to use the Internet to connect things and convey information as much as possible. The connecting tool is the so-called "product"
So what things are connected together? What route should I use to connect?
This is the core of the work of a product manager, and it is also the true face of the slander "product thinking (product sense)" you often hear
So if you want to find a good product internship, you must first make yourself appear "good at connecting"
Next, enter the actual experience:
When I was interviewing a short video product product internship position, I was asked "How to design a short video publishing backend?"
At that time, I had no product experience, and I had not understood the functions of the front desk of this product, and I didn't understand how to design a backend system that I had never seen before. The final question answered is of course quite messy
So now, we can first use the "connection" thinking to think about who should I connect to the backend of the short video publishing?
is very simple. The author has a short video in his hand. If the short video app wants to get this video, the backend needs to connect to the author and app
. If the backend is not released, how should the author hand over his video to the app?
can be a USB drive, an email attachment, or a network disk link... But no matter which method, it seems to be very slow and stupid
Think about it carefully. Before the author became an author, he had already formed a connection with the app through the behavior of watching videos. So why can't we continue to open up the behavior of publishing videos on this line? Is this app a platform that can be both a viewing platform and a publishing platform
At this time, you can output your views. You can directly add an upload and publishing function to the front desk of the product, which can save you a complete set of video publishing backend systems.
Of course, the actual situation will be quite complicated. Short video products need to design different abilities according to the device, channel, and preference used by the author to meet the publishing needs. However, the above example is a reflection of product thinking, and it can also become the first brick to open the career of product manager
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