Career Motivation & Core Behaviors

Q: Career Motivation & Core Behaviors

This question evaluates a candidate's leadership, execution, customer-impact orientation, and motivation for transitioning from software engineering into product management by probing transferable technical strengths, examples of delivering under pressure, learning from missed expectations, and notable deliverables.

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Question

Behavioral & Leadership — Product Manager Onsite (Splunk)

Context

You are interviewing for a Product Manager role with an emphasis on leadership, execution, and customer impact. The interviewer will look for evidence that you can:

Articulate why PM is the right role for you now.
Leverage a software engineering background to build great products (especially in data-heavy, enterprise contexts like observability/security).
Deliver under pressure, own outcomes, learn from misses, and take pride in durable impact.

Questions

Why are you transitioning from Software Engineering to Product Management?
What strengths from your SWE background will make you an effective PM at Splunk?
Tell me about a time you delivered a complex project under severe time pressure.
Tell me about a time you missed expectations—what happened and what did you learn?
Describe the deliverable you are most proud of and why.

Career Motivation & Core Behaviors

Behavioral & Leadership — Product Manager Onsite (Splunk)

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