Product Manager Jobs at Gen Digital (NortonLifeLock)

Gen Digital (NortonLifeLock) PM interview guide

Gen Digital (NortonLifeLock) runs a recruiter-led PM loop that typically spans a few weeks to about two months: a 15 to 30 minute recruiter screen, a phone screen with the hiring manager, then an onsite day of back-to-back interviews with peer product managers, the hiring manager, and several engineering leaders, often capped by a business strategy case study with the product head. The thing that defines it is deep cybersecurity domain expectations: PM roles here are treated as powerful and accountable, so interviewers probe how well you know the security market and competition, not just generic PM frameworks.

The interview process

1. Recruiter screen (15 to 30 min). A recruiter walks through your past experience, why you want to join Gen, and the company culture. They confirm role fit and motivation before routing you to the product org (often the VP of product for the relevant business unit).
2. Hiring manager phone screen. A one-on-one call covering your background, your PM style, and early use-case scenarios where you talk through your thinking out loud. Sets up the case-heavy onsite.
3. Onsite day: peer PM and cross-functional panel. Back-to-back interviews (each often over an hour) with peer product managers, the hiring manager, and multiple engineering leaders. Mixes behavioral and situational questions with product scenarios; engineering-led rounds dig into how you write PRDs and MRDs with concrete examples.
4. Product design / business strategy case. A product design or business strategy case, sometimes a 2-hour in-person session with the product head. You either solve a generic product design problem (for example a hotel reservation system) to show requirement-gathering, or work a strategy case on investment prioritization and growth in the security market.
5. What they're really testing. Three signals carry the most weight: cybersecurity domain depth (where the security market and competition are heading in 3 to 5 years), structured PM craft (requirement-gathering, PRD/MRD writing, and prioritizing investments under constraints), and cross-functional credibility with engineering leaders in a global, matrixed org.

Likely PM interview questions

1. If you were a product manager for an IT management startup that has been around for one year, how would you structure your investments across different priorities?Strategy
2. Design a hotel reservation system. Walk through how you would gather requirements and structure the product.Product sense
3. What do you think security demands will look like over the next 3 to 5 years?Company-specific