Agent skill

Pm Interview Prep

by borghei in borghei/Claude-Skills

Structured PM interview preparation across product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical rounds, using CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and the estimation framework.

MITAuto-check passedBusiness, Finance & HR

Install Pm Interview Prep

skills CLI
$ npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill pm-interview-prep -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install borghei/Claude-Skills pm-interview-prep --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/borghei/Claude-Skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/project-management/career/pm-interview-prep .claude/skills/pm-interview-prep && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
pm-interview-prep
GitHub stars
874
Token cost
~1.4k tokens
SKILL.md length
630 words
Files
9 (incl. references, assets)
Skills in repo
364
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Structured PM interview preparation across product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical rounds, using CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and the estimation framework.

  • Works in 4 steps: Rate yourself across the five round… → Pull level-targeted questions from… → Run 2-3 mocks per round type using… → …
  • Tasks that involve Interview preparation
  • SKILL.md covers Overview, Core Capabilities, When to Use and Quick Start, plus 3 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Pm Interview Prep is an agent skill from borghei/Claude-Skills. Structured PM interview preparation across product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical rounds, using CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and the estimation framework. Calibrated to APM, PM, Senior PM, and Group PM rubrics.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.4k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 11 other files, including reference files and assets (for example `assets/mock_feedback_form.md`, `assets/self_assessment.md` and `assets/story_worksheet.md`).

It sits in Business, Finance & HR, covering Interview preparation, Quizzes and assessments and Monitoring and alerting. The repository describes itself as: 385 AI skills, 77 expert agents, and 900 stdlib Python tools for every team: engineering, PM, marketing, C-level, compliance, business ops, research, and a LinkedIn toolkit… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Interview preparation
  • Tasks that involve Quizzes and assessments
  • Tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting

Example prompts

  • “/pm-interview-prep”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Rate yourself across the five round types (assets/self_assessment.md); pick your weakest two.
  2. Pull level-targeted questions from references/question-bank.md and practice solo with the right framework, timed.
  3. Run 2-3 mocks per round type using assets/mock_feedback_form.md.
  4. Refine 8-12 behavioral stories (assets/story_worksheet.md) to under 5 minutes each, quantified.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c9a1487. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Pm Interview Prep loads about 1.4k tokens when it runs, and up to ~12k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 61 tokens; SKILL.md has 630 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~61
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.4k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~12k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from borghei/Claude-Skills at commit c9a1487, republished under its MIT licence (© borghei). 630 words, ~1,432 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/pm-interview-prep/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 8 other files; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
pm-interview-prep
description
Structured PM interview preparation across product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical rounds, using CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and the estimation framework. Calibrated to APM, PM, Senior PM, and Group PM rubrics.
license
MIT + Commons Clause
metadata.version
1.0.1
metadata.author
borghei
metadata.category
project-management
metadata.domain
pm-career
metadata.updated
2026-06-15
metadata.tech-stack
pm-interviews, product-sense, execution, behavioral, frameworks

PM Interview Prep Expert

Overview

PM interviews test five distinct skills, each with its own format, frameworks, and rubric: product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical. This skill organizes preparation across all five round types and calibrates expectations to the level you are interviewing for (APM, PM, Senior PM, Group PM). It bundles the most-used PM interview frameworks -- Lewis Lin's CIRCLES Method for product design, the AARM Method for improvement/metric questions, STAR for behavioral, and a 5-step estimation framework for market sizing -- plus question banks per round and structured answer templates calibrated by level.

Core Capabilities

  • Five round types -- product sense (design), product improvement, strategy, behavioral, technical/analytical, each with format and primary framework
  • Frameworks -- CIRCLES, AARM, STAR (+ Reflection for senior), and 5-step estimation, with worked examples and failure modes
  • Level calibration -- the same question scored differently for APM vs. PM vs. Senior PM vs. Group PM
  • Prep system -- self-assessment, question banks, 8-12 behavioral story development, and structured mock-interview feedback

When to Use

  • Preparing for PM interviews -- You have a loop scheduled and need a structured plan to cover all rounds.
  • Mock interview prep -- You are interviewing peers and want consistent rubrics.
  • Self-assessment -- You want to identify your weakest interview category before investing prep time.
  • Switching levels -- You are an IC PM moving to Senior or Senior moving to Group, and need to understand how the bar shifts.

When NOT to use: general career planning (use pm-career-ladder/); hiring as an interviewer (this is candidate-side); engineering or design interview prep (this is PM-specific).

Quick Start

  1. Rate yourself across the five round types (assets/self_assessment.md); pick your weakest two.
  2. Pull level-targeted questions from references/question-bank.md and practice solo with the right framework, timed.
  3. Run 2-3 mocks per round type using assets/mock_feedback_form.md.
  4. Refine 8-12 behavioral stories (assets/story_worksheet.md) to under 5 minutes each, quantified.

See references/round-frameworks-and-prep.md for the full round reference, framework tables, level-calibration bars, prep workflow, and troubleshooting.

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References

  • references/round-frameworks-and-prep.md — the five round types, full CIRCLES/AARM/STAR/Estimation frameworks with failure modes, per-level calibration tables, prep workflow, question excerpts, troubleshooting, and success criteria. Read when preparing any round.
  • references/framework-deep-dive.md — fully worked examples for CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and Estimation. Read when you want to see a framework executed end-to-end on a real question.
  • references/question-bank.md — 100+ questions organized by round type and level (APM/PM/SR/GPM). Read when building your practice set.
  • references/red-flags.md — common ways interview answers go wrong, with fixes. Read before mocks and the real loop.
  • assets/self_assessment.md — pre-prep diagnostic across the five round types.
  • assets/mock_feedback_form.md — structured feedback form for mock interviews.
  • assets/story_worksheet.md — worksheet for the 12 canonical behavioral stories.

External: Lin, L. Decode and Conquer (CIRCLES); McDowell, G. & Bavaro, J. Cracking the PM Interview; Lin, L. The Product Manager Interview (AARM + 165 questions); Bock, L. Work Rules!

Scope & Limitations

In scope: framework-based prep for all five PM round types; level calibration APM-Group PM; question banks and answer templates; behavioral story development and STAR refinement; self-assessment and mock-feedback tools.

Out of scope: Director/VP/CPO interviews (executive judgment, board influence, P&L — use leadership coaching); company-specific technical-PM screens (consult the role's rubric); salary negotiation/offer evaluation; resume and outreach prep (use personal-productivity/resume/).

Caveats: Frameworks are scaffolds, not scripts — interviewers down-rank verbatim recitation; internalize so the structure is invisible. Every company has its own rubric; adjust by the published guide and recruiter call. Mocking with a current PM at the target company beats any book.

Integration Points

IntegrationDirectionWhat Flows
pm-career-ladder/BidirectionalUse the ladder rubric to understand the level you are interviewing for
pm-onboarding/Feeds intoOnce hired, the onboarding skill takes over for first 90 days
personal-productivity/resume/Feeds fromA clean resume with quantified impact feeds the behavioral stories
discovery/brainstorm-ideas/ReusesProduct sense rounds reuse the same ideation discipline as Product Trio sessions
execution/prioritization-frameworks/ReusesRICE, ICE, and Opportunity Score reasoning shows up in CIRCLES Step 4 (Cut through)

© borghei, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 8 other files (references, assets) in project-management/career/pm-interview-prep of borghei/Claude-Skills.

  • SKILL.md
  • assets/mock_feedback_form.md
  • assets/self_assessment.md
  • assets/story_worksheet.md
  • examples/stripe-circles-new-market-product.md
  • references/framework-deep-dive.md
  • references/question-bank.md
  • references/red-flags.md
  • references/round-frameworks-and-prep.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c9a1487

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Questions about Pm Interview Prep

What does Pm Interview Prep do?

Structured PM interview preparation across product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical rounds, using CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and the estimation framework. Pm Interview Prep is an agent skill from borghei/Claude-Skills. Structured PM interview preparation across product sense, execution, strategy, behavioral, and technical rounds, using CIRCLES, AARM, STAR, and the estimation framework.

When should I use Pm Interview Prep?

Pm Interview Prep fits situations like: tasks that involve Interview preparation; tasks that involve Quizzes and assessments; tasks that involve Monitoring and alerting.

How do I install Pm Interview Prep in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill pm-interview-prep -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (project-management/career/pm-interview-prep in borghei/Claude-Skills) into .claude/skills/pm-interview-prep in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Pm Interview Prep in Codex?

Run `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill pm-interview-prep -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (project-management/career/pm-interview-prep in borghei/Claude-Skills) into .agents/skills/pm-interview-prep in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Pm Interview Prep in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add borghei/Claude-Skills --skill pm-interview-prep -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/pm-interview-prep, .gemini/skills/pm-interview-prep, .github/skills/pm-interview-prep and .opencode/skills/pm-interview-prep in your project.

What does Pm Interview Prep need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Pm Interview Prep is instructions for the agent only.

Does Pm Interview Prep access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Pm Interview Prep safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Pm Interview Prep use?

Pm Interview Prep is published under the MIT licence (declared in SKILL.md). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Pm Interview Prep use?

About 1.4k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.7k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 11k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Pm Interview Prep?

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Who maintains Pm Interview Prep?

borghei (a GitHub user) maintains it in borghei/Claude-Skills, which has 874 GitHub stars. The repository holds 364 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: borghei/Claude-Skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.