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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. Basically, the strategy is similar.

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13 Best Product Management Books to Read in 2021 – Product Manager Must-Reads

Userpilot

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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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. Technical experience is not required. I'm excited to shed some light on product management at IBM.

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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. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. At the time, we were conducting A/B tests, but the metrics were not behavioral, which presented an issue.

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Product Analyst

Bain Public

While these will be your key areas of ownership, we’re a small team at Bain Public, so you’ll likely pitch in on a variety of other initiatives, from communication campaigns to research to prospecting and networking. Succeeding at Bain Public means doing whatever is needed even if it’s not expressly outlined in the job description.