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Why I Became a Software Engineer at Modus Create

Modus Create

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 traveled to Morocco and got stuck there after my study abroad program in Copenhagen got canceled last spring. Joining the Modus Create Team.

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Edmond Lau and Jean Hsu on engineering more leaders and better working relationships

Intercom, Inc.

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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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

Yes, the Computer Science curriculum had several required Hardware Engineering classes. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. What's so bad about that?

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Complete Guide—Technical Program Manager Interview Questions & Answers

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. These kinds of questions evaluate your ability to think and work through technical dependencies, product context, execution strategy, and impact on a team. Design a typeahead box for a search engine.

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The Top 30 Engineering Manager Interview Questions of 2021

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If so, you might thrive as an engineering manager. As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. To help, we've compiled a list of the top 30 engineering management interview questions you'll likely run into. How would you handle poor performers on your team?

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Previewing a full chapter of The Cold Start Problem — my upcoming book dropping in December

Andrew Chen

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. But it’s also for people who work in the business of commerce, travel, publishing, and many other industries that are getting reinvented by tech. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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How to EFFECTIVELY manage young Product Managers

The Product Coalition

The ultimate guide on how to manage young PMs in your team. Most of the young PMs in India either become a PM after their MBA (majority of the population) or after being a software engineer for a couple of years (seen often) or straight out of undergrad (path less traveled) or post-entrepreneurship (even less traveled).