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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. Okay, those were way too many words to explain that knowledge is usually not a bad thing for a PM… Exercise 1: know your data structure Take the following data structure of a note-taking app. Names are fragile?—?they

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Google Coding Interview Rubric—An Inside Look

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

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. This means that the coding interview rounds are crucial for aspiring software engineers. Lucky for you, we have the inside scoop.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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Here’s Why You Should Write Unit Tests

Modus Create

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested.

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Authoring “Docker for Developers” for Packt Publishing

Modus Create

The book is oriented toward software development, deployment, and security. In February of 2018, Modus published a blog post, also named “ Docker for Developers.” We didn’t just start writing the text, but instead, we worked on the code we wanted to present in the book. Book Outline.

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Why Usability Means Credibility in Cybersecurity

The Product Coalition

the names, characters, businesses, places, events, and identifying details have been changed to protect the reputations and privacy of all parties involved. However, these threats are more focused on the back end software in websites. So then, how is it that many company websites today are still lacking in regards to cybersecurity?

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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). What date will it be?

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