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How Levels.fyi Brought Salary Transparency to the Tech Industry

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

I was looking at companies to apply to and had just joined an app called Blind (an anonymous community forum for chatting about the workplace). We realized this was a common question and decided to build a simple visualization to compare software engineer titles across companies. What was your background before starting Levels?

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

Intercom, Inc.

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. With his latest book, Staff Engineer , Will is hoping to answer all of these questions.

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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. Alex Yang: The company where we work builds technology to fight global poverty. Our current product is a biometric fingerprint scanner paired with an Android app.