PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best way to get ready is by reviewing some real TPM interview questions from some of the top tech companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and more. The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. For example, these questions are typically focused on system design.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. and Facebook.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Onboarding systems are no exception, especially when you’re trying to replicate on-site conditions in an online setting.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been taking 2 Aleve each day (1 morning, 1 evening) because I had been developing arthritis in my hands. My immune system is so strong that my immune system attacks my healthy cells. It went after my joints, my nervous system, and skin. For this reason, I strongly prefer not to travel, except maybe 2-3 hours by car.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

All these questions boil down to the same thing: “ How long will that chunk of software development take? ”. As product managers it often isn’t our responsibility to provide an answer, but we’re frequently asked the question by our superiors or dependent teams nonetheless. Bad weather. Wrong turns. For some reason.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. Little Otter and its family-first approach, they believe, is the antithesis of that. What was that like?

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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. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. The CAB itself is a collection of representatives from various functions inside and outside of corporate IT, chartered with reviewing proposed changes and assisting the change manager in change assessment, prioritization and scheduling. But, who should be in charge?

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Tyner Blain

JUNE 3, 2016

This student is now a VP of product, and kicked off a conversation with me about best practices for establishing a workflow for product managers to collaborate with professional services teams to improve the product. From the product team’s perspective, going fishing was looking for needles in a haystack. Just Ingest.

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Split

AUGUST 20, 2020

Controlled rollouts, also called canary releases, or percentage rollouts, are a vital part of software releases. Let’s take a look at an example of how a controlled rollout can be beneficial for an agile dev team. Let’s say you are a web developer who has spent most of your career in JavaScript. They act as a safety net.

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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. Whether your target company emphasizes Technical / System Design , People Management, or Recruitment, or Hiring questions , our handy mini-guide will give you context and benchmarks to help you test your knowledge.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

million bookings made every day, and every tenth person in the world employed in travel services, it’s no surprise that the value of the travel industry is estimated to hit $13.5 In the past, people used to plan their trips through travel agencies?—?but 98% of travelers carry their smartphone with them throughout their journey.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. Sam Mallikarjunan, Head of Growth at HubSpot, a leader in inbound marketing and sales software, explains that teaching the user in this example to create an email campaign isn’t good enough.

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Sonal: I love that you said that because one of the complaints I’ve heard about “growth hacking” is that it’s just marketing by a different name, and what I’m really hearing you guys say is that there’s a systemic point of view, there’s rigor to it, there’s stages, there’s a program you build out.

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Reveal

AUGUST 24, 2022

Businesses of all industries and all sizes incorporate embedded analytics technologies and capabilities into their own software, SaaS platforms, Angular apps , or other apps because of the tremendous benefits that they get. Reveal Embedded Analytics. This allows you to get ahead of your competitors and make the most out of any opportunity.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

When working on mass consumer products (think FitBit or Facebook or teach-your-kid-to-code toys ), we will have large numbers of small purchases — too many customers to know each by name. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!”

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Thanks to a combination of advancements in hardware and software, an outpouring of investment, and a massive spike in business and consumer interest, we believe that virtual reality has hit an inflection point that will propel us from the mobile era to the virtual reality/ augmented reality era. Building non-gaming VR experiences.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work  And any software we build and sell once to the client who paid for it.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Marketplace companies often end up employing teams of “launchers,” a specialized ops role focused on cracking new cities. Once in a city, the Launcher must simultaneously: recruit, hire, and train a local team. develop partnerships and manage relationships with local hire car operators (NB: Uber does not own any vehicles.

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Reveal

AUGUST 31, 2022

Businesses of all industries and all sizes incorporate embedded analytics technologies and capabilities into their own software, SaaS platforms, Angular apps , or other apps because of the tremendous benefits that they get. Reveal Embedded Analytics. This allows you to get ahead of your competitors and make the most out of any opportunity.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Scott Berkun, author of The Dance Of The Possible, spoke at Business of Software Conference USA 2017 about how to unlock your creativity and pursue it in your workplace. Scott Berkun The Dance of the Possible BoS2017 from Business of Software Conference. Now in 1884, the hot tech sector was not web development, wasn’t cloud computing.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. Peldi Guilizzoni (CEO/Founder, Balsamiq) – 10 Years Of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned from Business of Software Conference. I even left a bunch of slack channels for different projects, different teams.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

How does a bootstrapped software company effectively market especially when its founders despise (and, in fact, suck at) sales and marketing? Shawn Anderson & Shane Corellian (Co-Founders, PDQ.com) – Alternative Marketing, or “Oops I Did A Marketing” from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Wade Foster (CEO/Founder, Zapier) – Building Operating Cadence with Remote Teams from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Even though product managers are supposed to engage various teams during the day, chances are you are not moving that much. Bad news first: the reasons for not working remotely OK, let’s be honest for a second. Secondly, while there are many workflow methodologies, all of them involve gathering as a team at a certain point.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

I wanna, first of all, thank Tom and the whole marketing team for putting this show together, can we get a round of applause for them? Every company will be a software company or is a software company, in some way or form or some time now or soon. In the meantime, take it away, Alfonso… ?. Hello, guys, how are you?

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