Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. Unblock bottlenecks?

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. I told him how finding places to eat and drink was difficult abroad, but everyone had lists from their friends. My College Experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Here's a definitive guide for your approaches and a step-by-step playbook for how to take the leap. Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering amongst other options. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 15, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Hired , about how to become a machine learning engineer. How have you seen AI and Machine Learning as a career path evolve over the years? " What kind of educational background, technical knowledge, and soft skills are required to become a machine learning engineer?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software. What do you do everyday?

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. This is not only because of the importance of the discipline but because the supply of qualified security engineers is too little.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 8, 2023

Phani Sai Ram Munipalli left his job as an Software Engineer and is currently pursuing his Masters in Software Engineering in Silicon Valley. In this guest post, he shares his story on how to make better decisions on becoming a product manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2019

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. General software engineering interview questions. Questions about your background.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. 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.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Unfortunately, engineering manager interviews can often be quite opaque - EM interview questions can range a wide spectrum, and it's usually unclear what good preparation looks like. How would you describe your role in coaching and career development?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. And this is also how we’ve built strong customer relationships.” – Colin Ulin, senior software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Let’s talk about how to share a compelling product narrative. I had recently made the switch from software engineering to product and was committed to spelling out requirements in a user-centric way that engineers could understand. The Story Spine I started focusing on how to tell a better product story?—?not

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption. You’ll learn about: The Ethical Product Matrix and how to identify where your product falls. Lots more that Else will unveil.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

The energy efficiency of this equipment plays a pivotal role in the overall sustainability of software systems. How To Calculate Carbon Footprint in Software Source: Green Software Foundation While various formulas exist for this purpose, the Software Carbon Intensity metric is particularly effective.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve led teams of engineers for almost a decade but when I look back at my own management career I regularly thought I was a “good manager”, at times even a great one. As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . Always ask for advice.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Next, we'll discuss how to craft a perfect resume. Often, candidates struggle because they don't know what to highlight on their resume or how to highlight it. Let's take an example job description, a Customer Solutions Engineer: Note how these qualifications practically spell out what you should write in your resume.

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TryMyUI

JULY 22, 2022

Whether you’re a programmer, a software engineer, a designer, or a product manager, every day brings new challenges and new opportunities to innovate, learn, and expand your skills. The post It’s just not working: How to break up with bad UX design appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 9, 2020

Every software developer or an engineer should think like a Product Manager. It is important for engineers to speak up and voice their product opinions. This article is not a guide for how anybody can become a Product Manager (that article is here ). Engineering a Product Mindset. Incorporate Design Thinking.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 10, 2020

Should product managers know how to code? Let us know your opinion on whether product managers should know how to code. Should product managers know how to code? Should product managers know how to code? Related Articles – Should PMs Know How To Code. How software engineers can develop a product mindset?

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

How to check yourself. How to check yourself. How to check yourself. How to check yourself. He’s been developing apps for almost as long as the App Store has existed—wearing every hat from full-time engineer to product manager, UX designer, founder, content creator, and technical co-founder. Try it free.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How did you first break into product management? As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

Many engineering managers first transition into their roles as former individual contributors. This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. This skill may not come naturally to a newly minted engineering manager.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

They’ve also released countless new features, improved their recommendations engine, and enhanced the user interface. The product outcome represents how the product team can create business value. You can learn more about how to translate business outcomes into product outcomes in our Defining Outcomes course. Tweet This.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Google engineers and product managers practice a combination of product sense, analytics, and cross-functional communication to ship products that impact millions of users at scale. So, how do you actually get to interview with Google's roles? Here's a guide on how to get that referral, and why it's so important.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 25, 2022

Table of Contents Why an Apple Referral Matters How to Find an Apple Referral How to Ask for a Referral at Apple After You've Gotten Your Apple Referral Despite these difficulties, candidates can quickly get their resumes in the hands of recruiters with an Apple job referral. Would you be willing to refer me?

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Izenda

JULY 28, 2020

Engineers live in the product, spending the majority of their time building it, fixing it, and taking care of it. And the truth is that the world could use more engineers-turned-product-managers. But at the same time, product managers often ask software engineers to assume skills that are probably completely alien to them.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. Learn more about the Engineering team at Amplitude. What do you do at Amplitude?

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Mixpanel

APRIL 12, 2024

If you froze the quality of foundation models today and we just had people playing around with building new agents, using more expansive and more costly prompt engineering strategies, that would still result in huge performance increases—potentially for cheaper. Will software engineering be around in 40 years? Does AI “think”?

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. Feature toggles with causal analysis identify what’s working, so software engineers can learn early on as they ramp up their releases little by little through percentage rollouts. What about risk mitigation?

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Nulab

MARCH 10, 2020

Masahiro Nagae is a software engineer living in Fukuoka. We’ll discuss how clickjacking works and how we’ve implemented protection mechanisms on our own team chat application, Typetalk. And it’s important to understand how to protect your users from these types of malware. Clickjacking demo.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

We cover the basics of the behavioral interview including sample questions, what to say to make your answer sound great, and how to practice for the interview before your big day. What is the Google Behavioral Interview—How Does it Work? The most obvious crossover will be with other product managers, PMMs, or software engineers.

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