PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Unfortunately, engineering manager interviews can often be quite opaque - EM interview questions can range a wide spectrum, and it's usually unclear what good preparation looks like. You’ll go through many rounds, each 30 - 60 minutes long.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

until you consider just how much ground an EM interview has to cover. As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. This uncertainty adds a lot of (extra) anxiety to interview prep. For more behavioral interview questions, click here. ?? Design Dropbox.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Photo by ThisisEngineering RAEng / Unsplash We asked several EM's how they would define their roles. Different teams really require different things." - a PM/EM at Lyft "Management is about guiding teams to make the right decisions." - an EM at Google "The best engineering managers can toggle back and forth between manager and IC roles.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 4, 2021

System design is a critical tech interview for many different roles - from software engineers (SWE) to technical program managers (TPM) to engineering managers (EMs) and even product managers. If you’re interviewing for a technical role, you’re bound to come across this round at virtually all FAANG companies and many startups.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

This guide will go over all you need to know about an engineering career path. How 12 Top Tech Companies Interview Software Engineers It may feel overwhelming preparing for a software engineering interview. I’ve worked at both Google and at startups and share the pros and cons.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The project manager helps photograph and codify all the activities into a Google Spreadsheet (yes, they transcribe all the Post-It notes, etc – super helpful post-sprint ) – a good project manager does wonders. Inputs might be UX research, stakeholder interviews, market data, etc. How did you proceed? Oh hell yes.

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