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If I was running an 'Interviewing for PM roles 101' first and foremost I'd go over this article by Ken Norton. It runs the gamut of questions I've had over the course of many interviews and sets expectations around a possible interviewers frame of mind.
For books I have three: Cracking the PM Interview, Swipe to Unlock, and Decode and Conquer. Cracking the PM Interview is a general overview of what PMs do, how to prepare for interviews, and general interview questions. Swipe to Unlock give reasons for why certain PM decisions were made and the strategy behind it. Decode and Conquer has more interview questions, but also sample answers to them and is a bit more technically-focused.
My recommendation is to come up with something you want to build and explore what it would take to do that. For example, what if I was interested in who would win the Oscars? I might use Twitter's Search API and explore which movies come up the most with the hashtag Oscars. What would that take? Well, I would have to integrate with Twitter security so they know it's a valid request, use Twitter's documentation to figure out how to search for terms, and then import that into a data analysis tool to do sentiment analysis. In an interview I discussed what I would build, worked through what features I would want to add, and a roadmap for deployment, which was a fun exercise!
OP try giving this text a read: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615930417/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl_nodl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0615930417&linkCode=as2&tag=seatintecoac-20
Basically a CC functions like this: Credit card companies make the bulk of their money from three things: interest, fees charged to cardholders, and transaction fees paid by businesses that accept credit cards.
Think of a credit card as a short term loan, so if you were to start lending money, what would you look into first? Determining who your target market is. Is the CC for college students, first time creditors, arm forces members, state employees, mid income or new creditors with 0 credit?
How are you finding your CC company?
Will you have crediting investors who would get profits from the collected interests over time it will you have shared holders of a financial institution?
Think about how you would go about establishing credit worthiness, credit interest tiers, payment methods, insurance, security and fraud etc.
Hope this gives you something to start on.
Have you read Decode and Conquer (http://amzn.to/29G0irv) and How Google Works (http://amzn.to/29G0p6k)?
Some videos:
https://userbrain.net/blog/product-management-videos-that-are-worth-your-time
But still, I'd love to keep learning. Especially about improving people skills. It gets more important as you move up.