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

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do we fix it?”

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Transitioning from Software Engineer to Engineering Manager

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. Engineering managers are tech experts and great leaders. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager.

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Strong Development Teams don't maintain a ‘Pecking Order’

The Product Coalition

Understanding what ‘Pecking order’ is all about in a team’s construct Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash What does the term ‘Pecking Order’ stand for? Dominance in chickens is asserted by various behaviors, including pecking, which was used by Schjelderup-Ebbe as a measure of dominance and leadership order.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

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. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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How To Answer Product Management Interview Questions—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

How do you balance constructive feedback on how a company can do better versus seeming like you are overly critical? It's really important to offer criticism that is constructive. Saying something like, “the company's doing really well, I see it in the press all the time” - that's not a great answer. That's a terrible answer.

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Product Analyst

Bain Public

Teams Work with leadership, and Product Analysts on day-to-day growth and performance of the team Play a supportive role in the thought leadership process; contribute to workshop documents and articles Proactively share creative ideas to extend existing mandates. Measure the impact of the released features output through data.