PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 21, 2025

ℹ️ If you're preparing for a Stripe interview , we recommend reviewing these principles in conjunction with our Stripe interview guide. Set the Pace and Energy : Lead by example. For example, a PM candidate might be asked how they would improve Stripe Payments , testing whether they naturally prioritize users.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

" The recruiter will also review logistical information about the interview process and the role.    Technical screen The technical screen at JPMorgan Chase is a standard 45-minute coding challenge live on HackerRank of data structure and algorithm questions. Behavioral Tell me about yourself.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2025

Technical screen The second round of the interview process at Snap is a 60-minute technical screen with an engineer or the hiring manager. You’ll likely get 10–20 minutes to answer behavioral questions or questions about your background and then the rest of the hour to complete a coding challenge. Tell me about yourself.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

IBM is most widely known for its software and hardware products, but it also offers consulting services, data analytics, AI, and hybrid cloud solutions. Technical roles get a short coding challenge—typically a two-question, 30-minute assessment on HackerRank.  Behavioral Tell me about yourself. What is CAP theorem?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 2, 2025

For example, the tech screen sometimes comes first for technical roles, followed by the recruiter call.   Technical screen The technical screen at Accenture is a coding challenge. Non-engineering roles may receive an aptitude online test, or they may skip this step and move directly to the final round.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

Full Spectrum MCP: Uncovering Hidden Servers and Clients Capabilities Speaker: Harald Kirschner ( VS Code , Microsoft ) – Session video Now we have authoritative from Microsoft: Harald Kirschner, a Principal Product Manager working on VS Code and GitHub Copilot , who was instrumental in releasing Agent Mode in Copilot.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

🧠 About this guide : Written by Thang Tran , a senior data engineer (ex-Amazon, Meta, and Apple) and Exponent interview coach. Reviewed by Deeptaanshu Kumar, a VP of data engineering (ex-Capital One, Freddie Mac). Coding Focus: Both disciplines will test your ability to write clean, efficient code under time constraints.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 20, 2025

👋 Data Engineer Resume Reviews : Request a resume review. Template: Data Engineer Manager Copy this Data Engineering Manager Resume Template. Collaborating with Teams : Works closely with software engineers, data scientists, and business analysts to understand data needs and create scalable solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

When one learns to code, the initial steps involve a great deal of experimentation with code writing and debugging. The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. It is a cyclic process consisting of two major steps: Coding and Fixing.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally. About Terri Boshoff.

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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 have become increasingly popular among software developers. This is probably due to their ability to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market velocity, and increase reliability. Take notes! Take notes!

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

For example, using the Apptentive Apptimize Integration enables you to use Apptentive Surveys to ask customers who have seen a specific variant of a given experiment about their experience. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users. To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. Let’s dive right in. by the year 2024.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Software Engineering: Generative AI drafts computer code based on natural language prompts, which reduces the time required for coding and debugging.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

For example, if you work on a machine learning API, it might make sense to include a data scientist in your trio, making it a quad. Traditionally, product managers, designers, and software engineers have worked in silos following a waterfall process with multiple hand-offs. Why is it important to work as a product trio?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 26, 2020

There’s nothing to be nervous about once you’re confident in your skills and knowledgeable about the normal software engineering interview questions. This article will start by talking a little about the procedure of most software engineering interviews. Try to keep things positive throughout the interview.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Software Engineering jobs are among the most in-demand and highest-paying jobs on the labor market today. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that software engineering jobs will grow by 22% in this next decade. Here is our list of the top 30 software engineering interview questions you will likely experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A Code Review, also sometimes called a "Peer Code Review," is the software engineering process that involves developers looking over code for mistakes or other problems. In many instances, code reviews involve many different developers working together. Let's get to it!

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

If you work on software that your internal colleagues use (e.g. call center software used by internal customer representatives or inventory systems used by your colleagues), then your customers are your colleagues who use that software. The goal is for your team to talk to the people who are using your software.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2021

Whether it’s software engineering , sales , or support, agile principles can enhance team performance and outcomes by focusing on the customer’s needs. Strong support teams put the customer’s needs at the heart of everything, from the processes they develop to the software they choose to implement them”.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this article, we'll talk about why resumes matter, what Google looks for in your resume, some concrete tips to improve your resume, and several example resumes of candidates who have gotten the job at Google. A team member at Google reviews all the applications submitted to their job postings and scans resume to see if there's a good fit.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 10, 2020

Building your first software engineering resume might seem overwhelming, but don’t worry. Here at Exponent we’ve reviewed thousands of tech resumes to bring you a surefire set of best practices. Here's an example software engineering resume from our co-founder Jacob: Read on to learn how you can do the same.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

The pressure is only increasing due to the influence of the pandemic, as more consumers begin to shift their preference to the comforts of home. With that in mind, software quality comes to the fore. Unfortunately, within the eCommerce field, high-priced data breaches occur frequently due to the influx of pandemic-related web traffic.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Before I became a software engineer, I worked as an editor and a journalist. In my case, the skills I learned while working as a journalist helped me to transition to a career in software engineering. Since then, the skills and lessons I’ve learned in software engineering have helped me write and publish my own book.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Even in the software development world, the technical skills needed by each team is quite different. Q: Do Product Managers need to code?

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2022, Modus acquired software engineering company Tweag (which I founded in 2014) and further enhanced its open source footprint. Tweag — Modus Create’s open source program office (OSPO) I founded Tweag to improve the experience of developers and data scientists throughout the software development lifecycle.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

The Timeline Some additional context: We actually signed the term sheet for our seed round with Accel in December 2020, but we just closed the round (after the due diligence and all the negotiations on the long form contract) in early February. There are many examples, such as Kafka, Spark, and now dbt. by the end of the year.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

While most product management articles and blogs talk about product management for consumer-facing or enterprise SaaS products, I’ve found that many of the methods and insights discussed in these can also be applied to developing enterprise software to be used by your company’s internal users. At Zalando, we changed this.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 5, 2018

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk Alex Miller, one-time software engineer in the content understanding team at Yelp, gives us a case study of using machine learning (specifically deep learning) to provide a ranking system that surfaces the most beautiful photos of a business to the top of their page. Basic Photo Ranking.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Believe it or not, this is also true of software architecture. Engineers love to crank out code. Why Care About Software Architecture? The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

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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. We’ll explore how these tools have become essential to many development processes today, and discuss why they remain so important for software teams of all sizes.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

An example of one of our strategic objectives is to “Grow the number of Advancers (learners whose motivation is to advance their career) who will pay for an aspect of a course or qualification”. For the growth example above, we measure the number of course enrolments and drive towards a monthly target. How did we fix this?

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you're grappling with this issue, identifying the specific cause can be difficult, especially if you don’t have a software background. This is where a technical review can be useful!) Before we review the symptoms, though, please bear this in mind: If your team shows these signs, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re weak.

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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. In this guide, you’ll learn about Google’s Coding Interview Rubric.

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