Welcome to Season 2 of 'Breaking into Product Management', a series where we speak to APMs or early-stage Product professionals on their journey so far, to give you an insight and some tactical tips that might help you to start your career or shift into product management. We have Kritagya Nayyar, a PM at Razorpay for this edition.

Kritagya is a 2020 graduate from IIT Roorkee. Before Razorpay, he did a Data science internship at Nokia and served as a Head at ECell, IIT Roorkee. In this edition, he will share his interesting journey into Product Management along with his learnings on the way.

Kritagya's LinkedIn profile & YouTube channel:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kritagyanayyar/
- https://www.youtube.com/c/KritagyaNayyar

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro to Kritagya's early PM journey
05:59 - How important is a Tier-1 college degree?
07:34 - Details of each hiring round at Razorpay for PM
11:33 - Best resources to prepare for a PM role
14:48 - Why did Kritagya choose Razorpay over Flipkart?
16:14 - Myth about Product Management
17:25 - Why PM and Why Razorpay?
18:17 - Kritagya's YouTube journey
20:17 - 3 Tips that are not in the books!
23:13 - How much Tech should a PM know?


Resources shared by Kritagya:
- Cracking the PM Interview (https://amzn.to/3n55ief)
- Decode and Conquer (https://amzn.to/2Y2SeNZ)
- Mock Interviews (We have some at https://bit.ly/3gLMcH2)


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