How to ace Meta-style leadership & drive PM interviews

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How to ace Meta-style leadership & drive PM interviews

Hosted by Ben Erez, Robert Hamilton, and Brian Kemler

935 students

What you'll learn

What Meta really looks for in Leadership & Drive interviews

Hear how real calibrated interviewers evaluate this notoriously ambiguous interview and what makes candidates stand out.

How to demonstrate strength across all four evaluation areas

Learn what “great” sounds like across resourcefulness, growth mindset, ownership, and conflict resolution.

How top PM candidates prepare and practice for L&D

Avoid the most common traps and walk away with practical tips from experienced Meta interviewers and coaches.

Why this topic matters

Meta's Leadership & Drive (L&D) interview is often the hardest to prepare for because it’s the least structured, the most subjective, and the least understood. Unlike Product Sense or Analytical Thinking, you’re not solving a case. Instead, you’re telling personal stories. But knowing which stories to tell, and how to tell them, makes all the difference.

You'll learn from

Ben Erez

Former Meta PM • Coached 150+ PMs • 11K+ students

Ben has been a founder, joined three different startups as their first PM, and held senior PM roles at Meta and Attentive. Now helps PMs ace Meta-style product sense and analytical thinking interviews at top tech companies.

Robert Hamilton

Exec coach for PMs & PM Leaders (formerly PM leader at Google, Meta)

After a successful PM career shipping many impactful products and leading high performance teams at tech companies including Google and Meta, Robert now works full-time as an executive coach.

Additionally, Robert work as an interview coach to help those seeking PM roles improve their interview skills and maximize their chances of success.

Brian Kemler

Product Lead at DoorDash (ex-Google, ex-Meta)

Brian is an AI Trust & Safety product leader with 15+ years experience creating cross-company teams at Google and Meta to solve existential challenges from vision through execution. Brian also loves helping PMs prepare for interviews.

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