PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. How would you handle poor performers on your team? How would you build a high-performance engineering team? How do you coach and develop your engineering team? It takes leadership skills.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. I have been in countless conversations where people argue incessantly about the definition of agile, PO vs PM, how the customers in their industry just don’t get it, and what actually constitutes good software engineering practices.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. The Ukrainian engineer has lived in Japan since he was six, an experience which has made him bi-cultural.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

." and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? How would you describe your role in coaching and career development? Tell me about a few people on your team and the career development plans you created with them. How do you balance feature development and technical debt?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Here are a few examples: Amazon loves to interview candidates using their core leadership values. View the Amazon Software Development Manager Guide here. Facebook interviewers tend to ask about your people skills—like ability to manage conflict or dealing with difficult team members. Watch answer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. What's so bad about that?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. EMs are no longer only responsible for themselves and their own workload, like the ICs on their teams. This can be especially difficult in regards to poor performance.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Developing product vision.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program) is for those engineering and tech-related roles. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Here are some common buckets you may be asked about: How you work in a team How you handle conflict and/or stress Times you took initiative How you solve problems and adapt to change You're virtually certain to be asked some of these, so let’s prepare. Here are a few that we run into often: Amazon's "Leadership Principles."

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. Successful solutions architects and solutions engineers have a highly valuable skillset with a mixture of technical knowledge, communication skills, and B2B sales expertise.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

We’ve reached out to a few of our colleagues on Intercom’s R&D team to hear their reflections on the movement and what the term “women in tech” means for them. ” Recently, myself and the Content team were discussing the different ways we could approach this important topic. Feeding into impostor syndrome.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Any advice on developing that elusive product intuition or product “spidey sense” ability? You'll notice interesting trade-offs in the products that developers and companies are building. It could be that you love working with people, and building rapport - a product role is all about being at the intersection of the entire RD team.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

To meet customer expectations for consumer-like software usability. To answer threats from software-only competitors. But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. To share data with partners.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Any advice on developing that elusive product intuition or product “spidey sense” ability? You'll notice interesting trade-offs in the products that developers and companies are building. It could be that you love working with people, and building rapport - a product role is all about being at the intersection of the entire RD team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2019

The ultimate guide on how to manage young PMs in your team. Most of the young PMs in India either become a PM after their MBA (majority of the population) or after being a software engineer for a couple of years (seen often) or straight out of undergrad (path less traveled) or post-entrepreneurship (even less traveled).

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. DC : Yeah an engineer, software engineer and then yes. ML : Describe David Cancel. DC : In 30 seconds? ML : Fantastic. It’s a long story.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

” Whitney O’Banner, Software Engineering Manager, Braintree. “‘ Focus In Action Is Great Leadership ‘ by Belinda Johnson White provided me with the most practical framework for developing as a leader in business.” ” Claire Lew, CEO, Know Your Team. Most influential book?

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