Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

This means that by the time it gets to the engineers, the message is unrecognizable. It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. These visual exercises facilitate the work of discovery. These exercises result in visual artifacts that are easy for other people on your team to understand.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . After this exercise I often discover the best next step is not giving “constructive feedback” to someone on my team about their mistakes; it’s requesting feedback on how I can better support them in future.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That exercise helped us sharpen our prioritization and give more nuance to the general idea that we should ‘improve the user experience.’” Texthelp has very few designers who are shared across teams, and they have also been short on software engineering leads. That puts a big weight on the shoulders of the product manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is no secret that software engineering interviews are rigorous and extensive today. Nevertheless, there are some general trends you can expect in many of your software engineering interviews. Nevertheless, there are some general trends you can expect in many of your software engineering interviews.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

There was no way I could make a hash map or binary search tree in a week (sorry Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and Google), but thankfully a small coding exercise in HTML/CSS/JS got the job done. The post Why I Became a Software Engineer at Modus Create appeared first on Modus Create.

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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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Product Talk

AUGUST 8, 2018

After exploring the distinct perspectives on your team, use the exercise described in this video to create a shared map. This is one of the most powerful exercises I’ve come across for quickly getting to a shared understanding. We expect product managers to manage stakeholders, designers to design, and software engineers to write code.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

It’s also not a natural progression from a specific academic discipline such as a career in law, medicine, or software engineering and a lack of opportunities begets a lack of candidates. Often the most promising students are those who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, or entrepreneurship.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Finally, you'll need to conduct some technical exercises before the conclusion of your phone interview. In some of the shorter phone screenings, technical exercises may be excluded. Be sure to ask questions such as: Should I expect behavioral questions, or should I prepare for a technical exercise or both?

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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.

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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. That being said, it’s still a learned skill which you can begin exercising today, no matter where you are in your career.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Exercising more command & control to counter complexity does not work as any experienced leader will note. imposed from the outside?—?with

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

I had recently made the switch from software engineering to product and was committed to spelling out requirements in a user-centric way that engineers could understand. Every time I was presented with a new initiative, I rushed to expand it into a set of standard agile stories using the template : As a _, I want so that _.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 10, 2015

So this really becomes an exercise in ensuring there is sufficient available roles within your career. At the same maximizing your career simply for salary is also not going to improve your career satisfaction, as research shows that salaries above $75K don't provide any incremental happiness.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2022

The politics of disgust make them, in particular, exercise judgment against representatives of sexual minorities, proceeding not so much from the requirements of the law as from personal preferences and individual moral norms. an authoritative researcher and professor of philosophy and ethics at the University of Chicago?—?this

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Split

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Exercise discretion and override the holdback when it is more expensive than interesting. That is a legitimate source of concern for the software engineers and the operational managers who will want to move on. Those improvements can contribute to assigning more value to your preferred option.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

He talks about one training exercise where he broke his squad into a bunch of different sub-groups. I thought, “If this guy can do it with a nuclear submarine, we can definitely do it with the internet and software.”. Edmond: Any sense of awkwardness comes from using a new muscle that you just haven’t exercised before.

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Nulab

JUNE 8, 2020

The speakers from TeamSpirit are: Ace Htike, Assistant Manager of Engineering, and Development Lead . Jerry Ye, Senior Software Engineer. Anni Zhang, Software Engineer. I feel I will forget to exercise because of the psychological pressure to stay home, so I feel that health is becoming an issue.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

They’ve developed numerous frameworks to apply across different industries, exercising and refining them hundreds of times across their investing history with companies like Facebook, Slack, and Carta. ” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind.

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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. Check out our company-specific Software Engineering interview guides ?????

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Bogdan Coman Says

DECEMBER 8, 2019

1) There are around 25 million direct productive software engineers in the world. (2) 2) As a rule of thumb, the development accounts for only one-third of the budget in software projects. Roughly half of the features in tech products are never used, or used very rarely. In simple words, the effort to build them is just waste.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

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. If the recruiters deem you to be a good fit, you'll receive a digital video exercise.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Just to give us a bit more of an idea of what we’re working with here today, I thought it’d be nice if we did a quick exercise. Defining Where You Are on Your Discovery Journey Petra Wille asked participants to rate where they are on their discovery journey on a scale of 1 to 5. Petra: But we know it’s not.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2021

Moshe Miklanovsky, a Software Developer-turned Product Manager and a co-host of the Product-for-Product podcast , explains which technical skills are essential for Product Managers based on his 30-year career in tech. Talk with your engineering team to learn what comprises the technical stack and product architecture.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. The book is evidence-based (references to theories in footnotes) and contains exercises you can start using right away. Educational and professional backgrounds of product managers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 4, 2018

Founder/CEO at CareerCup (55:43) “All of this advice on how to be a great PM is all well and good”, you’re saying, “but how do I go about getting a job where I’ll get to exercise my new mind-altering, product-experimenting superpowers?” A recruiter once told me “Software engineering interviews are formulaic.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Succeeding at Bain Public means doing whatever is needed even if it’s not expressly outlined in the job description. When: Flexible start date. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Succeeding at Bain Public means doing whatever is needed even if it’s not expressly outlined in the job description. When: Flexible start date. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Succeeding at Bain Public means doing whatever is needed even if it’s not expressly outlined in the job description. When: Flexible start date. Company Description.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Business Case Writing Test & Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. Succeeding at Bain Public means doing whatever is needed even if it’s not expressly outlined in the job description. When: Flexible start date. Company Description.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for. For example, if we know an engineering team or data team owns the Mixpanel budget, we know it’s most important to convey how easy it is to implement tracking with Mixpanel.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 31, 2020

This exercise will help you narrow your search for the right mentor, and your thoughtfulness will make you a more attractive mentee. It’s okay not to have a detailed plan, but you need to be able to articulate what you want and why. Think through which problems interest you. Is it the business side of things?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Why Truly Multidisciplinary Teams Can Lead to Building Better Products Every discipline needs a seat at the table By Adam Talcott , Software Engineering Manager , YML Photo by Pascal Swier on Unsplash Imagine yourself as a software architect or tech lead, and a project manager brings you in to a new software project.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Don't be afraid of them!

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Izenda

JULY 22, 2020

Envisioning why some team dynamics work and others do not requires a bit of mental exercise. Say you have a formidable “A-Team” of software engineers. Why Complementary Skills Are Less Important Than Complementary Personality Types. So, let’s warm up. One is a master at building APIs. Another cranks out code at lightning speed.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works. For starters, having sound knowledge of technical product development will make it easier for you to plan with software engineers.

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