Explaining Your Motivation to Join LinkedIn as a Product Manager

You are interviewing for a product manager role at LinkedIn, and the interviewer asks why you want to work there. Give your answer. ```hint Make it impossible to reuse If your answer would work just as well for any other tech company, it is too generic. Tie one thing that is specific to LinkedIn to something you have actually experienced. ``` ### Clarifying Questions - Is this role on a specific product area, such as Jobs, Feed, Learning or the recruiter and sales products, or is it a general PM loop? - Does the team build mainly for members, such as job seekers and professionals, or for paying customers such as recruiters, sales teams and advertisers? - Should I focus on LinkedIn as a company, or also on why this particular role fits where I am in my career? ### What a Strong Answer Covers - A reason tied to a specific part of LinkedIn's mission or member value, not generic praise - A personal connection backed by a concrete experience rather than a claim of passion - Product knowledge shown through one specific, well-reasoned observation about a LinkedIn product - Fit between the candidate's skills and the team's work, including what they would contribute - A natural delivery of about one to two minutes ### Follow-up Questions - Which LinkedIn product would you change first, and why? - How would you balance what members want with what recruiters and advertisers pay for? - If you had offers from LinkedIn and another company, what would decide it for you?