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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

doesn’t change the fact that 275 of them will never make it into the product development queue. So each product manager will now spend 1120+ hours/week thoughtfully reviewing and prioritizing and responding to incoming requests.   And requesters really don’t just want any answer: they want a YES answer.

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Modus Security: What’s Your Threat Surface?

Modus Create

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Others will fail.

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How to Evaluate Startup Offers for Software Engineer

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

You’ve got multiple offers from startups engineering positions, but how do you choose which one to take? How about if one is in an industry you love but another is in a location you love? Levels.fyi is a great resource for helping software engineers learn what a fair salary is in the industry.

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What is Program Sense in Technical Program Management?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. They are responsible for ensuring technical processes can be completed according to their deadlines.

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said billable).  Building  A very big difference.