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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? What’s your take?

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. How is the strategy here different for current MBA students? What’s your take?

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

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Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.