article thumbnail

How Do I Become a Product Manager at IBM?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

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. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

article thumbnail

GDPR: Who Should be Your Data Protection Officer?

Mind the Product

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. For example if a customer is refused insurance by an automated system they can call and ask for a manual review.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.) Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career? I never trust my gut.

article thumbnail

On skepticism and storytelling: How PMs can become more data-informed

Mixpanel

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.) Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career? I never trust my gut.

article thumbnail

Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. But, it is very difficult to actually execute upon unshipping.

article thumbnail

Let’s talk about Card Payment Processing

The Product Coalition

Payment Processors : For the sake of simplicity, think of payment processors as technical arm of acquiring bank. Technically, the authorization leg is also called BASE 1 and clearing/settlement leg is called BASE 2. Payment gateways help collect customer and card information to be relayed from merchant website to the acquiring bank.

Banking 60
article thumbnail

Azure Virtual Desktops: Questions & Answers

eG Innovations

The audience also shared some of their own technical experiences of real-world AVD usage. Where can I get technical details of real AVD deployments at scale? Audience input included anecdotal inputs that thin-client usage for work-from-home is seen particularly in finance/government organizations.