article thumbnail

What’s in your stack: The state of tech tools in 2025

Lenny Rachitsky

As you just read, Figma is where design work happens, so FigJam has an advantage that could force Miro out of its leadership spot in future years. PowerBI: Microsoft's answer to Salesforce’s Tableau and Google’s Looker. ” About 5% of the responses mentioned these products. Tableau is our internal source of truth.”

article thumbnail

Ace Your Data Engineering Interview (2025 Guide)

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Visualization Layer: Platforms like Tableau or Looker that enable end-users to derive insights from the processed data. Amazon's Integrated Leadership Principles: Instead of having a dedicated behavioral round, Amazon weaves 1–2 Leadership Principle (LP) questions into almost every interview session.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

Data Analyst Resume Guide and Templates

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

✅ Shows leadership, business impact, and technical depth. Results-Driven Summary The title immediately communicates the leadership role. Positions candidate for a leadership role in data strategy. Relevant Technology & Skills Section Skills are grouped into Data & Analytics, Leadership, and Compliance categories.

article thumbnail

What Google’s and SalesForce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for…

Piyanka Jain

What Google’s and Salesforce’s respective acquisition of Looker and Tableau Software means for CIO’s The BI analytics tool space is consolidating to compete against Microsoft’s ensemble of Business Analytics(BA) products which promises to solve for the entire workflow?—?data With Google’s announcement to buy Looker for $2.6b

article thumbnail

How I PM: Andrew Wynn, Product Manager at Looker and formerly Instacart

Amplitude

Current Company : Looker. Since the time of writing, Andrew has left Looker to start his own company. I started in a Technology Leadership Rotational Program at Levi Strauss & Co. I had been a Looker customer at Instacart and was blown away by the value of the product—and by its potential.

article thumbnail

A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)

Lenny Rachitsky

examples: Looker, Ironclad] Level three: Strong product-market fit, where the fish are jumping into the boat. Moreover, founders should start paying attention to key metrics like sales conversion rates, retention rates, and efficiency metrics like the magic number (new ARR divided by CAC).

article thumbnail

Nick Caldwell on the engineering cultures that power Microsoft, Reddit, Looker & Twitter

The Review by First Round

Nick has also held roles as Reddit’s VP of Engineering and Looker’s Chief Product and Engineering Officer. Between Microsoft, Reddit, Looker, and now Twitter, Nick’s worked for companies with vastly different cultures. Nick has also held roles as Reddit’s VP of Engineering and Looker’s Chief Product and Engineering Officer.