PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? Read our example answer.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Amanda Renteria , CEO for Code for America. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America, is a firm believer in this idea. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Hubert Palan , founder and CEO of Productboard.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. How can product trios work with user researchers? What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How can product trios adapt to remote work and distributed teams?

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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. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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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. Many internship roles last between 12-16 weeks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Google uses specific internal tooling to analyze and review resumes to rank their scores–unfortunately, this changes rapidly and is nearly impossible to predict other than the basics of what make an effective resume. After an interview loop, Google's hiring committee reviews the entire packet of a candidate, including their referrals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. The app sat on a vast worldwide network of smaller networks, each one representing cities and countries.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Adopting the “best tools”. Don’t use the best tools for the job. Sounds counterintuitive, right?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Team : If applying to a specific team it helps to have someone from the team refer you. A simple text message or email can do wonders for helping leverage your weak ties to get connected. Be sure to answer all the questions they have in preparing your referral for review. How do you recruit great engineers?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2021

How important is the ease of use for the success of your SaaS company? Pawel Banhegyi asked 98 SaaS businesses a bunch of questions that revealed why you should make the ease of use and good, intuitive UX an absolute priority! What about software solutions they have to review based only on a single web page?

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Software bugs can be really costly, but surely there’s a way to make them cheaper? Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Security Engineer Interview Questions As mentioned, security engineer interview questions can vary widely from company to company.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Imagine the internal ‘pat on the backs’ and recognition that occurred when Gmail fully launched dark mode for the mobile app, Figma released multi-account to switch between personal and work design spaces, or Apple announced their M1 chip.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. Unlike classic software engineering where you insert an input and you expect an output, machine learning products are probabilistic, and one time you may get one answer and on the other time the opposite one.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams? Or maybe all of the above?)

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams? Or maybe all of the above?)

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams? Or maybe all of the above?)

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most project plans only consider the actual development?—?but Let’s say one sprint makes up 200 hours, purely for development. and more time still if the team grows or if the requirements for the product aren’t properly explained to the team. How much backend or frontend development do we need? Let’s see why.

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