
Cory A.
5.0
Expert APM & PM Interviewer | Microsoft PM, Salesforce APM
Studied at BYU Marriott School of Business
Works at Salesforce
Not currently taking new clients
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Cory’s Product Management Qualifications
Experience level: Product Manager
20+ people coached for Product Management
Cory has helped clients get into these companies:
Product management has been my career focus for some time now and I have been lucky enough to spend time at Microsoft and Salesforce among various early stage companies (i.e. Podium) and startups. I have received 8 big tech offers for product management and I have interviewed at basically every big tech company to some extent. My primary PM coaching skills revolve around resume building, LinkedIn formatting, common PM interview mistakes and how to avoid them, all PM interview types (i.e. product design, strategy, estimation, etc.), and more!
Cory can help with:
LinkedIn Review
Resume Review
Networking Strategy
Product Case Interview Prep
Behavioral Interview Prep
About Cory
I studied Business Strategy (Computer Science minor) at Brigham Young University (BYU). Now, the elephant in the room - How did a guy from BYU (not an APM feeder school), in a non-technical major, land one of the top APM roles in the world?!? I learned how to crush interviews, and I want to teach you exactly how you can too! Professionally, I have spent time as a data scientist at a local startup, product manager at Microsoft (Defender for Endpoint - data security), product growth manager at a local startup, product manager at Podium (YC backed Series D), launched my own B2B SaaS startup, and as an associate product manager (APM) at Salesforce. I have interviewed at over 60 companies, so I know the process well. So, how did I do it? I have conducted over 200 mock interviews, spent countless hours studying product management, read countless books, and failed way too many times. Let me teach you what I have learned so you can skip 15 steps and get your dream job today! My clients have landed jobs at the following companies: Microsoft, DataDog, Intuit, Qualtrics, Apple, Walmart, Capital One, and more! The roles they secured range from PM internships to full-time APM roles and even Sr. PM positions. As your coach, I will teach you how to: - How to create a world-class LinkedIn account & use it to network - Write a compelling resume tailored to the companies of your choice - Build trust with your interviewer within the first 5 minutes of the interview - Repeatedly crush your personal intro (more important than you think) - Ace common questions like: why product management? Why this company? etc. - Use frameworks to tackle common scenario questions in any interview, without needing to know them in advance. - Understand all application questions including: product design, technical, estimation, behavioral, etc. - Stand out among thousands of other applicants (Salesforce APM extends 12 offers to ~10,000 applicants)
Why do I coach?
When applying for my first product roles, I had an extensive network from family members that work in tech, making it much easier to get my foot in the door. As I have started various group for product managers to learn together, I have discovered that most men and women have an incredibly hard time building a good network and getting the opportunities they deserve. I coach to help bright individuals land the roles they are qualified for!
Work Experience
Associate Product Manager
Salesforce
May 2022 - Present
Currently participating in the Salesforce rotational APM program.
Venture Partner
Contrary
September 2021 - Present
Deploying 3rd fund ($75 million) since March 2022

Product Manager
Podium
January 2022 - April 2022
Organized new program for teammates to use our product (SMS marketing tool), increasing weekly customer calls by 300%, generating 3 projects for subsequent quarter’s roadmap, and 7 tickets for product bug fixes (completed in 2 weeks) Series D: YC, GV, Sorenson Partners, Summit Capital, Album VC, etc.

Product Growth
Campfire
August 2021 - December 2021
Grew MRR from $10,000 to $25,250 in 3 months Seed stage (Sepio Capital)
Product Manager
Microsoft
May 2021 - July 2021
Led efforts and defined the strategy and vision for the development of an MVP stage internal tool expected to reduce response time on customer security breaches by 75% by developing enhanced data pipelines and automated data organization
Data Scientist
Drafted Commerce
April 2020 - December 2020
Queried large sets of behavioral sales data to produce KPIs for more than 20 brands with net amazon sales totaling over $350M Pre-seed (Bootstrapped)
Education
BYU Marriott School of Business
BA, Business Strategy (minor in Computer Science)
2017 - 2023
Started BYU's first product management club (BYU Product Society) and scaled it to 200 members in 8 months
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Overall Rating
5.0
Cory has helped clients get into these companies: