Build a product interview presentation you can defend

A product presentation should make the boundary between a source and your inference visible. The Interview Workbook helps you build a research brief and presentation outline, then rehearse questions about the choices you made.

Begin with the assignment

Confirm the time limit, audience, permitted sources and whether you should use a specified product or a fictional scenario. A recruiting exercise does not authorize you to use confidential company material. If the brief is incomplete, label your assumptions on the opening slide.

Create a source card with four fields: the claim, the source, the date accessed and the limit of what the source supports. A manufacturer statement about a feature does not automatically establish a financial or clinical benefit in your proposed setting.

Try a five-slide structure

Audience and situation: who is considering what decision?
Current process: what is known and what remains a question?
Product or service: the supported capabilities relevant to that situation.
Evaluation: what information would be needed to assess fit?
Next step: a specific, reasonable action and who needs to participate.

For a fictional equipment-location service, the fourth slide might ask for a baseline of staff search time. It should not present an invented savings figure as measured evidence.

Rehearse the difficult interruption

Ask your practice partner to interrupt: “Where did that number come from?” Point to the source or explain that it is an illustrative assumption. Then describe how you would validate it. If you cannot do either, remove the number.

Also rehearse a shortened version. A ten-minute deck that cannot survive a five-minute limit probably has too much background and too little decision structure.

What you receive

The workbook contains source-card practice, discovery exercises, original role plays, panel preparation and two mocks. Its editable presentation outline is a planning document; it is not a deck branded for a real device manufacturer. Review the contents and actual sample. No medical advice, clinical certification or product-use instruction is included.