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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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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? I don’t know.

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How to prepare for software engineering interview questions

Intercom, Inc.

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. Don’t worry about not knowing all the technologies they use. Questions about the company.

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Product in Practice: Getting Started with Several APIs (And the Challenges I Faced)

Product Talk

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Some of these challenges were due to me being a beginner. I tried to write it for non-technical folks, so that anyone in an organization can advocate for more discovery for API teams. This book was exactly what I needed.

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Lambda School Review

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry. Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. Potential students should definitely think carefully about enrolling at Lambda School.

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Top Six eCommerce QA Tips: What to Undertake to Keep Ahead of the Competition

The Product Coalition

The pressure is only increasing due to the influence of the pandemic, as more consumers begin to shift their preference to the comforts of home. Unfortunately, within the eCommerce field, high-priced data breaches occur frequently due to the influx of pandemic-related web traffic.