The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

We encourage you to gather as much information as possible about the exact structure from your recruiter, as well as checking our list of EM interview questions that have been recently asked by tech companies. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? Read our example answer.

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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? Leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers. What's so bad about that? Can't people catch up?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. EMs are no longer only responsible for themselves and their own workload, like the ICs on their teams. This can be especially difficult in regards to poor performance.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

Like actors, product managers are seen as the lead role, when in reality there is an entire team pulling together. As product managers we could be talking to the legal team about our customers’ personal information one moment, and to engineers about whether we should use Native or React Native to build our app the next.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Team : If applying to a specific team (generally this isn't the case with Google roles) it helps to have someone from the team refer you. A simple text message or email can do wonders for helping leverage your weak ties to get connected. You can work with your referrer to fill in the information and gaps.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Here are five quick takeaways: Businesses focused on scaling need to think of customer support as a revenue team , not a cost center. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Team : If applying to a specific team it helps to have someone from the team refer you. A simple text message or email can do wonders for helping leverage your weak ties to get connected. Amazon often asks for a resume, how the referrer knows the candidate, and a few other role-specific information.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Finding a GREAT one is.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

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. Successful solutions architects and solutions engineers have a highly valuable skillset with a mixture of technical knowledge, communication skills, and B2B sales expertise.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How can product trios adapt to remote work and distributed teams? Do product teams really work this way?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

UX design was first developed by Don Norman , who was actually working at Apple at the time. In a nutshell, a UX designer is expected to ensure products or services are developed in a way that takes the users' needs and desires into account. User research is usually conducted before product development is underway.

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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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The creators of Agile Manifesto understood that software engineering, like most knowledge work, is a creative process. The industrial revolution era approach to managing labor wasn’t nurturing employees to develop innovative products. By being active listeners, servant leaders cultivate a culture of empathy in their teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

While the movement has helped spark awareness over the stubborn gender gap in the tech industry, helping to drive more diverse hiring initiatives across all businesses and encouraging women to succeed in STEM fields, women still hold an astonishingly low percentage of tech roles according to recent data – 16% in engineering, 27% in computing.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. An engineer is never alone in their problems.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Information has never been so accessible – the world’s knowledge is quite literally at our fingertips. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Wikimedia Foundation COO Janeen Uzzell on future-proofing history.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services. The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. How would you handle poor performers on your team? How would you build a high-performance engineering team? How do you coach and develop your engineering team? All of this is exciting.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. These roles gave me opportunities helped me gain exposure on how to develop web applications for users.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. Unlike classic software engineering where you insert an input and you expect an output, machine learning products are probabilistic, and one time you may get one answer and on the other time the opposite one.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. That’s Jared and his teams focus on identifying the core emotions that people use when they express how they feel online.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 1, 2022

These are unbiased opinions from our own team of system design coaches and our community. Engineers must navigate complex problems like scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability when designing technical systems. On top of that, engineers and developers have more tools than ever for managing data.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 6, 2020

In this informative and witty talk by Rick Nucci – CEO and co-founder of Guru (a company based on empowering others to do their jobs) – we see that there are many factors to take into consideration before we start throwing in the towel on humanity and that the hype of every innovation gone before was the big thing to fear.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

We encourage you to gather as much information as possible about the exact structure from your recruiter, as well as reviewing our list of Security Engineer interview questions below. Hashing: the process to change a given piece of information into another value, in security usually used for the purpose of encryption.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Developing product vision.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2018

But so many other areas of product development are prone to this same problem. Many times it’s not even a bad way of doing things. So how can we get out of some of our bad habits? The connotation of it implies a rigidity that simply doesn’t work for modern product development. But we (and our organizations) can do better.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Sequent Learning

APRIL 6, 2019

In order to ensure that a product’s features hit the mark, product managers and their teams must become exemplary interviewers. This is a vital skill for teams who have to be inspired to continuously learn and fine-tune the value of their products. So, stay tuned; I’ll have some more information on that shortly. . . [00:02:03]

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. How do you still manage to assemble a superstar team before you dive in.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams?

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