PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

Becoming an engineering manager is the first step into the big world of management for many software engineers. Engineering managers are tech experts and great leaders. That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Even if you have years of software engineering experience under your belt, the technical interview can be daunting! For senior software developers, the fear may be related to not being as familiar with programming language or concepts. Because of this, arrays allow engineers to read and write elements more efficiently.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users. To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. Let’s dive right in. However, this is not the case.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

These days I work a lot with software product management. I have a background in software engineering and moved to a product management… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Product Talk

MAY 5, 2021

Or does your product manager write requirements, your designer designs, and your engineers code? A product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. A product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. What’s a product trio?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

We’re excited to sponsor a new equity, diversity, and inclusion scholarship for students of the University of Limerick’s Immersive Software Engineering (ISE) course – valued at €10,000. Software engineering will play a crucial role in the future of business, society, and even our planet. Practical experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. Unblock bottlenecks?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 10, 2023

Modus Create has acquired Clarisoft , a Romanian software engineering company with deep expertise in custom product development for enterprises. Also joining Modus will be 40 senior engineers, designers, and project managers. . We kick off 2023 with an excited update! Fifth Acquisition in 12 Months.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 20, 2018

There are three principal types of companies: Sales led, marketing led, and engineering led. All three of them have distinct characteristics and traits, however, the engineering led organization (or ELO) has some distinct attributes that you can key off of. They do a lot of ETO (engineered to order) business.

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Mind the Product

MAY 19, 2020

I believe that product managers should take the time to discuss new product hypotheses and planned features with the engineers they work with. The post Skills to Make Working With Engineers Easier appeared first on Mind the Product. It helps them to be able to plan a project roadmap as precisely as possible.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. Include Engineers in Product Decisions.

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Product Talk

JUNE 16, 2021

In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that a product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. Some with quite a bit of outrage. This concept is not new.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Personal insights to help software engineers highlight their skills and stand out to employers. Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve led teams of engineers for almost a decade but when I look back at my own management career I regularly thought I was a “good manager”, at times even a great one. As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . Always ask for advice.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In a traditional company, a product manager sits in the middle between business stakeholders and the engineering team. The product manager gathers requirements, documents them, a designer creates a design based on those requirements, and the engineers build software based on those requirements. Tweet This. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 5, 2021

But your software engineers are questioning the business value, being non-committal on timelines, and their deliverables [.] You’ve done your part—you have your OKRs, roadmaps, specs and designs in good shape. You’ve made delivery commitments to stakeholders. Now you just need to build those shiny new features.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 3, 2022

In this episode, Apptentive CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, sits down with Jason Pace, former Senior Architect at Alkami Technologies and now current Software Engineering Manager at Apptentive. From talking about the Texas Longhorns to what makes good BBQ, Robi and Jason talk about how tradition breeds long-lasting fan loyalty.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

They’ve also released countless new features, improved their recommendations engine, and enhanced the user interface. A product trio —typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer—leads product discovery. However, that doesn’t mean other members of the team don’t contribute. Tweet This.

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Split

MAY 19, 2020

Did you know that passenger jets can fly without all their engines? They’re designed with resilience in mind and can keep flying quite safely if an engine fails. As software engineers we also want to make resilient systems, avoiding single points of failure that could take down the entire system. Enter the Chaos Monkey.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2019

. “Everyone who works on our product inherits the three top-level principles and then also the principles appropriate to their domain” We have three top-level principles for how we build software, five product design principles, and five engineering principles. Engineering principles. Shape the solution.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 8, 2023

Phani Sai Ram Munipalli left his job as an Software Engineer and is currently pursuing his Masters in Software Engineering in Silicon Valley. In this guest post, he shares his story on how to make better decisions on becoming a product manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

How can you get your engineer to participate in your product trio? Most product trios are comprised of a product manager, a designer, and an engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. The engineers start building.

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

If we only collect typical stories about how software engineers find their jobs, do we design solutions that are more likely to work for men and not women, since most software engineers are men? Or should we be looking for more “atypical” stories so that we don’t contribute to these inequities?

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 18, 2022

At most companies, software engineers are in a constant state of rushing to get features and bug fixes out the door. This means product analytics can be seen as a burdensome afterthought for a lot of engineers —one that just adds more grind to an already packed schedule. Allow engineering to lay a strong analytics foundation.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 7, 2024

I want to thank product manager Michelle Rea , UX designer Carl Törnquist , and software engineer Mattias Eriksson for taking the time to not just talk through their tool decision but for also showing in detail how they set it up and how they plan to move forward.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. It’s hard to balance investment optimally across ML, product, engineering, and design. You might easily be over-engineering your solution or solving slightly the wrong problem. We can’t just build for the good path.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. She is about to release new newest book, Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. These things are usually artifacts of some engineer’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Large engineering organizations face a common problem – different teams working on different parts of a product can end up having specific domain knowledge, and even specific cultures, that can lead to silos. For instance, nearly a decade ago, Facebook established their engineering bootcamp program. What is an engineering tour?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

This approach to managing your localization efforts on an ongoing basis is referred to as continuous localization – much akin to continuous integration , which is a practice in software engineering where developers merge their work into a single code repository on a continuous basis, helping to enforce version control and create a single source of (..)

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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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