Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there are well-documented examples of facial recognition software failing more regularly for dark-skinned people, and this happens because the software is typically trained on the faces of its software engineers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Traditionally, product managers, designers, and software engineers have worked in silos following a waterfall process with multiple hand-offs. When product managers, designers, and software engineers work together from the very beginning, they make better decisions about what to build.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He finds the diverse background helps him communicate effectively to build good software. When he’s not doing product management, he trains for long distance cycling, and dreams of opening a tiki bar. Having been a support person out of college, he transitioned into operations, then programming, then into Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority. User Experience and Functionality: Choose user-friendly software with scalability and advanced analytical and visualization tools.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

I went on to be a lifeguard, a train engineer, and a manager in a rides department. This technology started when software engineers were working on software to describe photographs. I went on to be a lifeguard, a train engineer, and a manager in a rides department.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He finds the diverse background helps him communicate effectively to build good software. When he’s not doing product management, he trains for long distance cycling, and dreams of opening a tiki bar. Having been a support person out of college, he transitioned into operations, then programming, then into Product Management.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

And this is not a surprise; these colleagues know their business but they are not trained product managers. Recruit and Train the Right Product Managers. At Zalando, we changed this. In addition, we regularly organise informal exchanges across disciplines through random lunches and other events.

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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. As the hiring manager, this requires you to keep your skills and knowledge up to date, so that you can train them in current best practices.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

When the engineers are building something and they realize it wasn’t designed quite right, they’re too far away from the business stakeholders and the real needs. And they’ve been trained to just be mercenaries, so they just build what they’re told, even if they know it’s not going to be good.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The team had approached Carnegie Mellon University and its MSPM program in the spring looking to recruit not a computer software engineer or robotics expert, but rather a product design-oriented business student. “At As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 5, 2018

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk Alex Miller, one-time software engineer in the content understanding team at Yelp, gives us a case study of using machine learning (specifically deep learning) to provide a ranking system that surfaces the most beautiful photos of a business to the top of their page. Basic Photo Ranking.

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. And this is also how we’ve built strong customer relationships.” – Colin Ulin, senior software engineer. We are keen on doing it right the first time.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

” And turns out that sort of stuff is also really useful for the operations you need to do when you’re training a neural network. Some of the models you’re reading about might cost $10 million worth of compute just to train that model. We’re getting better at training them at scale. Fergal Reid: Exactly.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. Even within engineering, Elon distinguished himself with a very broad set of skills.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He finds the diverse background helps him communicate effectively to build good software. When he’s not doing product management, he trains for long distance cycling, and dreams of opening a tiki bar. Having been a support person out of college, he transitioned into operations, then programming, then into Product Management.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Then, two years into the role, she took a professional product management training and exam to become a Certified Product Manager and a member of the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM) body. Speak up about what you want – whether that’s training, support, or a new position. Learn more.

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2008

What’s your academic background/training? I was a software engineer at HP Labs. My education is in Computer Science , and I also did the Stanford Executive Business program. But my real education came from having the opportunity to work for and with from some of the best product minds in our industry.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He finds the diverse background helps him communicate effectively to build good software. When he’s not doing product management, he trains for long distance cycling, and dreams of opening a tiki bar. Having been a support person out of college, he transitioned into operations, then programming, then into Product Management.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As product leads, we could try to help people to get this interview training, I guess. I had to laugh when someone asked about upskilling their teams since Product Talk is a training business. Teresa: I run a training business… Petra: I knew that was coming. You talked about interviewing as a crucial skill. Audience member: Hey.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He finds the diverse background helps him communicate effectively to build good software. When he’s not doing product management, he trains for long distance cycling, and dreams of opening a tiki bar. Having been a support person out of college, he transitioned into operations, then programming, then into Product Management.

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Product Management Unpacked

AUGUST 17, 2018

No, you don’t have to be a software engineer. But when a software engineer tells you something, it helps if you can do more than nod your head and pretend to understand. Some larger companies, such as Google and Microsoft, groom product managers through specialized training programs.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2020

a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer with shared responsibility for a product). Making High-Quality Training Accessible to Everyone. Consulting of any kind (other than the training options listed above): I get asked to do a lot of interesting things and I would love to be able to do all of them.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

When Petra Wille was in her first job, working as a software engineer for Burda Media , she visited Hamburg for a work project and promised herself she would live in the city one day. “I I did some initial training for product discovery, and then gave ongoing coaching to the whole team on good product practice,” she says.

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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. How to Influence Without Authority Influence is like a muscle that needs to be trained and flexed periodically throughout your career.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2021

There are different directions within software development, and consequently they involve different career pathways. While many of them are pretty straightforward, there are also other software engineering vocations which are situated, so to speak, on the edge. Who Is a Java Full Stack Developer?

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Split

JULY 7, 2023

But, here’s the thing: Nobody knows what its potential may be—including software engineers! Using AI—today—in software delivery offers various benefits and drawbacks. The Cons Ethical Concerns and Bias : AI algorithms are trained on historical data, which can introduce biases and perpetuate existing inequalities.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2025

📖 Interested in preparing more in-depth for a role as a software engineer? Study with Exponent’s Software Engineering Interviews course. System design All engineering roles at Robinhood get a system design interview round. FAQs How competitive are Robinhood interviews?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He finds the diverse background helps him communicate effectively to build good software. When he’s not doing product management, he trains for long distance cycling, and dreams of opening a tiki bar. Having been a support person out of college, he transitioned into operations, then programming, then into Product Management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. However, unlike General Assembly and Lambda School, App Academy only offers courses regarding software engineering.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

The startup is building a community of elite talent from across Africa that has been rigorously vetted and trained to global standards, and helps connect talented workers with employers across the globe via their “Talent as a Service” platform.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

” At Intercom, we build a SaaS solution for our customers, but we don’t consider ourselves a software company. The people who spend their days writing software are not called software engineers. They are called product engineers. We are a product company.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. It’s that curiosity that will take you far within the tech world, not a prerequisite amount of technical training.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2020

Another appealing reason to hire a Vietnamese software development team is the quality of services. Actually, this country has a lot of talents in the software development field. The government of Vietnam cares about education and realizes the importance of training. It has motivated them to invest more in education.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 10, 2021

” He’s trained a lot of people to essentially write that query. “It’s one of the hardest things that I’ve had to train people on,” he says. ” Linux, says Tristan, is what made the difference for software engineers. But then, over the next 10 years, things open up.”

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2021

Doesn’t require much training (or no training at all). Saves on training time with employees. Simplifying software use for all ages. Users don’t require hours of training to use it. Is it hard to learn new software? Employees know what to do by looking at the screen. New users can adapt to it easily.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

To get the most out of AI, it must be tuned to or trained for your specific needs using your data. Do you have large enough datasets with relevant data to train your models to address the problem you aim to solve? Yet, numerous companies often encounter setbacks or outright failures attributable to data maturity-related issues.

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