PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Let's take a closer look: 1.)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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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. Naturally, I decided to study business in college. I started reading Atlas Shrugged, the magnum opus of Ayn Rand, during my two months studying abroad.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Back in March, I shared a case study about one of the product teams I worked with at Snagajob (now Snag). This case study is about a team at CarMax that I just finished working with. It was a ton of fun to watch this team excel. The product team at CarMax: Jake Mitchell, Victoria Lawson, and Sri Arcot.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

Product Management vs Product Design To those outside of tech, and even to some within, the meaning of different job roles can be confusing. That’s the magic of product development! Designers typically tend to care less about numbers and data compared to engineers. it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad designer.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I studied accounting and computers in high school. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A bad first impression could ultimately hurt your chances of landing a dream job. People see selling as a bad word but it ultimately makes life easier if you know how to do it. Previously working as a front-end developer at Tencent for 3 years. Previously working as a front-end developer at Tencent for 3 years.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

Copywriting, while often thought of as something creative and inspired, is a technical craft. It’s a scientific study in human psychology and empathy, the science of knowing what words will help people understand and connect with your brand and product. Think TrustPilot reviews, customer support tickets, and ProductHunt comments.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I studied accounting and computers in high school. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. That is to say, studying current market trends, personas, and competitors. Developing a strategy. Also, roughly when the team will have a working version ready for the market. Coordinating development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They get to know all of this by using data as a strategic asset—because good product teams are made up of good product analysts. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Asking developers to pull data isn’t an efficient use of their time.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 6, 2022

Whether we're talking about its world-famous search engine, YouTube, or one of its many cloud-based apps, millions of people use Google products every day. The software engineers at Google work on some of the most influential products in the world. As a result, being a software engineer at Google can be an incredibly fulfilling career.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In this episode, we sat down with Rebecca to talk about her mission to make mental health care scalable and accessible for all, and how the pandemic and technology are radically changing the way we think about mental health care. Rebecca: I’m going to kind of start my journey a little bit earlier and give credit where credit is due.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 23, 2022

Companies have been trying to “hack” the product development process for decades (potentially even centuries if we include non-digital products), only to run into unexpected issues that essentially nullify whatever time- and money-saving methodology they were using. How we use shaping to accelerate product development.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. good-products-bad-businesses/. 2-year study looks at employees attitude at most innovative companies – Microsoft beats Apple. Should product managers be technical?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Usersnap

JUNE 17, 2019

72% of customers blame poor customer service as the reason for having to explain their issue multiple times. How do you shorten the tedious back-and-forth cycle in clarifying technical issues? Top 4 Struggles for Customer Service Teams. Most people are not geared to identify specific technical issues.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. That is to say, studying current market trends, personas, and competitors. Developing a strategy. Also, roughly when the team will have a working version ready for the market. Coordinating development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Many of the resources we have here at Exponent are dedicated to nailing your tech interviews so you can ultimately receive an offer. Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Bachelor’s in Marketing, an MBA, or a technical degree depending on which company you’re targeting.) From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. Technical expertise. Leading a diverse team.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

He also encourages us to let go of the need to be right (difficult for many product managers) and enlist our teams to help us answer: What problem are we solving? We always talk about the “Build – Measure – Learn” loop of lean product development. Review your progress before it is ready. Who are we solving it for?

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with. vs. The Product Growth Tool for Product Teams. If you’re a mid market company with a product team you’d probably go for ‘the Product Growth Tool for Product Teams’.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today.

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