PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to ace the undergraduate associate product management interview. In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. Tell us about your current PM career.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. She has 7+ years of experience in startups and startup-like teams and most recently led an innovation lab as a product manager in 2019. Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is currently the product head for a healthcare startup aiming to introduce innovative solutions to help parents with young children.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is currently the product head for a healthcare startup aiming to introduce innovative solutions to help parents with young children.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to ace the undergraduate associate product management interview. In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. Tell us about your current PM career.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is currently the product head for a healthcare startup aiming to introduce innovative solutions to help parents with young children.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear. Practice makes perfect, but only with self-awareness and reflection. Lastly, do your homework. Where do interviewees most often fall short? They don’t listen!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is currently the product head for a healthcare startup aiming to introduce innovative solutions to help parents with young children.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. Description: "TWG is a world-class team of 100+ product managers, designers, and software engineers, located in downtown Toronto. They often lack the tools to succeed in their jobs.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

You might also have heard that it comes under the umbrella of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and is sometimes referred to in software engineering as version control. This gives the product team a skewed vision of the customer journey. This article was also published on The Product Management Blog.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft, and Apple and has extensive interviewing experience on both sides of the table. The Lean Product Playbook Every contemporary PMs go-to guide The Lean Product Playbook provides specific, step-by-step guidance on how to apply Lean Startup ideas.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear. Practice makes perfect, but only with self-awareness and reflection. Lastly, do your homework. Where do interviewees most often fall short? They don’t listen!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I’ve previously done work in marketing, UX design, software engineering, and consulting. I also made a startup with a few friends that had a small amount of traction (few thousand in revenue) and later ran a nonprofit that had roughly a half million a year in revenue. How did you break into product management?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is currently the product head for a healthcare startup aiming to introduce innovative solutions to help parents with young children.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. He is currently the product head for a healthcare startup aiming to introduce innovative solutions to help parents with young children.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations. From head of product at an early stage startup to managing global web properties at American Express, his career has taken him to the UK, France and back to New York.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software. At the time, my blog was becoming popular and I was invited to speak at Redgate to their offices. Title: Software Engineering Manager.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It was refreshing because the content wasn’t about the typical Silicon Valley startups that try to grow super big. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software. At the time, my blog was becoming popular and I was invited to speak at Redgate to their offices. Title: Software Engineering Manager.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. It would dramatically reduce the amount of software engineering activity we need to do.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What I came to realize is that this blog had it's humble beginning in 2009, meaning I've now been writing for over a decade! But I occasionally dabbled in other passion areas of mine, including career optimization, life hacks, and software engineering. million times ! Product Management Career Ladders at 8 Top Technology Firms.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2019

So people add two and two, and they induce that every single worker must have deep understanding of matters like coding, automating and other complex software engineering topics. It will not mean the same to answer a Technical Product Manager vacancy at a growing startup , than at a large digital corporation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

I started off my journey as a UI developer at PayPal Engineering Singapore. It was a great experience working in an MNC that functions with the startup mindset. But towards the end of 2 years, I felt like I needed to do more than just code so I decided to pursue a Masters in Software Engineering National University of Singapore.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2021

If you're a software engineer interested in joining the booming fintech industry, you have undoubtedly heard of two of the current fintech giants: Coinbase and Robinhood. Both companies are actively hiring new engineers at the moment, but which should you choose? Let's get to it! What is Coinbase?

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