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How Levels.fyi Brought Salary Transparency to the Tech Industry

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

We realized this was a common question and decided to build a simple visualization to compare software engineer titles across companies. Since then, we’ve expanded into Product Management , Software Engineering Management, and Product Design career tracks! What was your background before starting Levels? Anyone can do it!

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

You last chatted with us way back in 2018, when you shared your insights on engineering and infrastructure management. How do I do a better job of supporting and helping the staff engineers that I worked with? Brian: One of the most interesting things about the approach to the book was how important the crowdsourcing part was.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. So here are some stats that we pull together based on a three month period from December 2018 to February 2019. And these covers both technical and non-technical roles. is only 5%.