Phil’s blog

It’s recruiting season at Google and this year the Associate Product Manager candidates get to go on a scavenger hunt in SF. There were 5 teams, each led by 2 current APMs and with 3 or 4 APM candidates. Rather than find artifacts, we had to complete tasks and capture photographic evidence of them. They ranged from easy (mimic the pose of any statue you see) to extremely difficult (get handcuffed by a real police officer). We actually asked a couple of cops about the latter and were told that no cop would ever agree to anything even resembling this because someone could easily edit the photo, post it on the internet, and get them in trouble. Anyway, we did some interesting things, took some great photos, and had a lot of fun. People were surprisingly cooperative, perhaps because the Frankenstein mask (which we used in nearly every photo) was so amusing.