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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. It’s hard to balance investment optimally across ML, product, engineering, and design. You might easily be over-engineering your solution or solving slightly the wrong problem. We can’t just build for the good path.

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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 no one would give me money to build out my vision, so I learned how to build it myself. I just had no interest in writing linked lists by hand.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. You just need to know where and what to look for!

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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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there are well-documented examples of facial recognition software failing more regularly for dark-skinned people, and this happens because the software is typically trained on the faces of its software engineers. The Opportunity Before us.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You somehow have to bring together a rowdy bunch of tech professionals (data scientists, UX and UI designers , software engineers, etc) and make a valuable and functional product happen. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. As a product leader, you may be involved in defining the purpose of your company, or be responsible for the vision for the product, or it may even be something that is already set. What is your role? The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

Many of these ideas create only limited value, and together they do not form a coherent product vision. the business”) and tech teams (engineers, product managers). Frequently, this idea includes a detailed description of the solution they would like “IT to implement”. This is where the problems usually start.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy. Facilitate collaboration between the product owner and the engineering team.

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2024

After graduation, he worked as a software engineer for around 3 years at different companies such as IMC Pacific and Macquarie Group. Following his brief career as a software engineer, he transitioned into a Business Analyst and worked in this role at the Reserve Bank of Australia, and then the Australian Securities Exchange.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 17, 2018

Build the strategic vision for your product. No, you don’t have to be a software engineer. But when a software engineer tells you something, it helps if you can do more than nod your head and pretend to understand. . • Communicate improvements. Provide direction to product development team and oversee progress.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

In this role, you will leverage your extensive experience turning ambiguous problems into clear and actionable deliverables, aligning internal and external leaders on a shared, ambitious vision. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Strategy Software product managers also have to work on the product strategy by bringing the product vision to light. The idea is to bring the business value of the software product based on a well-designed product roadmap that takes all the software companies’ strategic goals into account.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Security Engineer Interview Stages In general, the security engineer interview has the following interview stages at most companies: 1.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

Directors create the overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Likewise, product managers often start their career as software engineers or designers or data analysts or operations managers, etc, and later transition to Product roles. What does a Film Director do? as is the case with directors.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

In software / platform based products great, but for data products it is used in a much lighter fashion, sometimes Trello is chosen, it’s up to the team. The lorry carrying the raw materials to make the car is the data ingestion process, which Data Engineering handle. Of course with every factory, there’s someone overseeing it all.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

You play a vital role at the intersection of GTM, Product, Design, Data Science, Marketing, and Engineering – reimagining self-service in the age of AI. Strong roadmap and product sense: can context switch between detailed work and high-level strategy/vision, ability to PM basic initiatives end-to-end.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

They hired engineers to build out prototypes and started raising venture capital. It was then, he was reminded of what his software engineers were repeatedly trying to teach him: “Any design decision you make without testing is an assumption. That’s why my first hire was not engineering. Source: Canvs.ai

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

Companies across the world can use The Room to hire top talent from Web Developers, Full Stack Software Engineers, through Data and Financial Analysts, to VAs. The other was whether we could build flows without engineering resources. We’re happy that we could help The Room forward their vision.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

Analytic Tools 150

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Jordan has enterprise Software-as-a-Service experience within the facilities management, legal and pharmaceutical verticals, having most recently worked at ServiceChannel, Epiq Systems and Medidata Solutions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 15, 2021

Demonstrate Product Vision The most important aspect of your answer, by far, is the product vision portion. For more information be sure to watch our video on the product vision. Feature Priority Once you've covered the product ideas and the overall vision, the rest of your interview answer is rather straightforward.

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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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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

My hope is that this will provide you with moral support on your uncertain journey and serve as another data point to empower your vision. 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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

which is basically the subset of skills that a Senior/Lead Software Engineer would have that are highly relevant to a PM role. a baseline acceptance and respect for the estimates given by the engineering team. A motivated and aligned engineering team is an absolutely necessary ingredient for building great products together.

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