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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. So I decided to join Microsoft full time in a PM role upon leaving UPenn. This often ends up being the biggest challenge for MBA students with non-engineering undergraduate backgrounds. What’s your take?

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. At the time, we were conducting A/B tests, but the metrics were not behavioral, which presented an issue.

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How Do I Become a Product Manager at IBM?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

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. My experience is specific to getting hired through the associate offering manager program (AOM).

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Product Analyst

Bain Public

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Succeeding at Bain Public means doing whatever is needed even if it’s not expressly outlined in the job description. When: Flexible start date. Company Description.