PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 15, 2022

Machine Learning Engineer at Hired , about how to become a machine learning engineer. " What kind of educational background, technical knowledge, and soft skills are required to become a machine learning engineer? You also need experience with software development and a sense for business. What is fueling that growth?

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Split

MAY 19, 2020

Did you know that passenger jets can fly without all their engines? They’re designed with resilience in mind and can keep flying quite safely if an engine fails. As software engineers we also want to make resilient systems, avoiding single points of failure that could take down the entire system. Enter the Chaos Monkey.

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Split

JULY 22, 2019

When I hit the road and chat with people at shows and meetups, I’ll often ask, “Do you use feature flags?” More often than not, the answer is “Yes.” I used to think this meant feature flags had achieved near-universal adoption. Then I started asking follow-up questions and discovered a confusion we need to clear up. I made a 1.5

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

Held in conjunction with DeveloperWeek, which annually attracts 8,000 software engineers and IT managers, this event is a prime gathering spot for technology professionals.C Experience inspiring success stories from tech product experts at leading Silicon Valley companies.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help. The technical skills include a solid understanding of software development and system architecture.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

One particular trend that’s picked up steam in recent months is GitHub cloud migration. As is often the case with major trends, both seasonal and evergreen factors are at play. Developers are also increasingly using GitHub Copilot as an AI pair programmer to aid in speeding up the engineering process.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

This industry trend gave me an opportunity to conduct a retro of what went well and what should be continued or stopped. Without a unified design library, it was evident that there was no front-end kit or library capable of effectively supporting the engineers. Sound familiar?

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Split

JULY 7, 2023

But, here’s the thing: Nobody knows what its potential may be—including software engineers! Using AI—today—in software delivery offers various benefits and drawbacks. Let’s get one thing out of the way, right off the bat: AI is simply blowing up right now. And, yet, one thing is sure.

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Split

MARCH 30, 2023

Feature toggles—or feature flags or flippers—are a powerful tool software engineers use to enable and disable certain features within a codebase. A Brief History Feature toggles have been around since the 1970s, but their usage has grown significantly over time due to advances in technology and software engineering practices.

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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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Split

APRIL 30, 2018

At Split, our first hire was a Quality Automation (QA) Engineer. In fact, most companies don’t hire a QA engineer until around 20 employees. I believe that a QA engineer should be one of the first 10 hires of a technology company. Devs do QA – We expect our engineers to do their own testing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

Whether you're going after a full time engineering role or are looking for your first internship , becoming a developer comes with hurdles! Read More: Software Engineer Interview Cheat Sheet: Tips, Tricks and Advice If you're currently on the job hunt and feeling discouraged, don't be! Never stop learning.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 22, 2020

To do so, they interact with software engineers and data scientists on a daily basis. This means communicating the user's pain points and clarifying requirements to software engineers. That's what software engineers do. Product managers clarify requirements and provide insights to market trends.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

You may understand the technical nuances of the problems you’re solving or the general trends in your market, but if you can’t truly empathize with the people experiencing those problems, you’ll build a sub-optimal product. A customer success lead looked into the PM persona, a PM looked into a data engineer persona, and so forth.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 13, 2022

You probably won't walk in tomorrow to find out all the software engineers have been laid off, for instance. However, now that that the market is trending towards a recession, that puts excess pressure on those same companies. When the economy slows down, a hiring freeze doesn’t always mean something bad.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 21, 2022

For example, perhaps there are high-engagement trends in a highly active subset of your users that would justify a pivot to prioritizing their needs. He’s also given technical interviews to 1,400 software engineers who have gone on to accept roles at Apple, Dropbox, Yelp, and other major Bay Area firms.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Sit down with an engineering manager or another engineering lead. Sit down over lunch with an engineer or product manager. For instance, let's imagine you were asked, " what are the top 3 technology trends that will change the landscapes in the next decade? " Sit down with another product manager or product lead.

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Split

AUGUST 3, 2023

Mitigating risks in AI software development requires a combination of best practices, careful considerations, and proactive measures. Here are some key steps to help navigate the industry trend. Encourage multidisciplinary teams with expertise in areas such as AI, software engineering, domain knowledge, and ethics.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Product managers generate these by looking at key metrics and trends in the market or gathering user feedback from existing products. You need a range of disciplines to bring a new product to life: Product development team: Your software engineers play an important role.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2021

While many of them are pretty straightforward, there are also other software engineering vocations which are situated, so to speak, on the edge. If you’ve already decided to learn Java, we should talk about such software engineering jobs as a Java Full Stack developer. Who Is a Java Full Stack Developer?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2023

Think of software engineers within a company starting to recommend the version control tool they enjoy using the most or customer success members vouching for a new CRM (customer relationship management) tool. This trend is lending itself to the growth factor for product-led growth companies becoming even stronger.

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Mixpanel

JULY 26, 2022

When engineers implement features, they write code. When engineers add analytics events to new features, they add additional analytics code to their new feature code. As such, the best time for an engineer to make changes to some piece of code is when their attention is fully focused on that piece of code, not weeks after.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2018

Not all non-technical product managers need to know how to code, but technical product managers should probably have programming or software engineering skills. On one extreme good technical product managers are experienced programmers or software engineers. But their attitude has more impact than their knowledge.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 10, 2021

From siloed systems to open source technology that bridges the gap between data engineering and data analysis. Eventually, there came technologies to collect things like software user events automatically, which made data far more plentiful and turned the process of rendering sense of what you’ve gathered into the obstacle.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 3, 2020

trend of WFH is one of the soft revolutionary trends that the knowledge economy should have long adopted. The biggest hurdle to this trend would however be the well conditioned bosses and chiefs in the factory-system hierarchy, who will find the WFH option as counter-intuitive or even as grossly over-celebrated.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I went on to be a lifeguard, a train engineer, and a manager in a rides department. They have an engineering-based approach. When you want to become a customer, their engineers show up and look at your facility. There are always trends in new coaster technology, virtual reality, and augmented reality.

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Split

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To Software Love and Solidarity Have you ever heard the term “HugOps” floating around in conversations among DevOps teams? Maybe you’ve seen #hugops posts on Twitter, where software engineers show solidarity for those experiencing outages. Building Trust Across Teams So many aspects of software jobs have become siloed.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Inefficient dashboard configuration Traders often leverage dashboards to monitor data from personal accounts, control transactions and contracts, follow the latest currency market trends and shifts. The UX specialists should place special attention to currency conversion to make software engineers plan the text size accordingly.

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Department of Product

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Knowledge Series #8: Webhooks explained – the difference between webhooks and APIs (Department of Product) Process – What makes fast product and engineering teams fast? What are the traits of fast, productive software engineering teams? ’ and ‘Does backlog size matter?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this article, a Google ML engineer explains everything you need to know about managing your data – and best practices for your product. Product data and trends to stay informed The most common frequency of deployment for product teams is once every few days, chosen by 36% of respondents in GitLab’s state of DevOps survey 2023.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I see it as derived from a desire to commit to doing to the best we can, but product managers should realize that people outside of software engineering don’t understand the dates we talk about are often estimates. We always commit to delivering products in ambitious timescales which can invariably put our backs up against the wall.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

Alternative Product Business Models The rise of the microsubscription and more as an alternatves to ad funded models The world, as always, is changing – and keeping on top of trends that matter to product teams is an essential part of succeeding in building winning products. Some roles prefer design clout but again this is optional.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous. However, the age-old method that miners once used to avoid risk now somehow applies to modern software development. The technique is called a canary release.

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