PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

If so, you might thrive as an engineering manager. As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. To help, we've compiled a list of the top 30 engineering management interview questions you'll likely run into. How would you handle poor performers on your team?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. My team’s lead engineer stopped what he was doing and announced to the all-male room, ‘Looks like the token female engineer has arrived.’

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Security Engineer Interview Stages In general, the security engineer interview has the following interview stages at most companies: 1.

Engineering 52

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. It’s about gathering together professionals from different functions such as engineering, business, design, marketing, legal, and others. It’s not just about bringing together a diverse team. Myth #2.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started! SDKs and an import API further enhance data management.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started! Register, choose a plan, or hop on for a free trial.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started! SDKs and an import API further enhance data management.

Data Visualization 52

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started!

Data Visualization 52

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Tesla’s Roadmap and Lessons from First Principles Historically, car manufacturing has been dominated by internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. Trust, outcomes, value?

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started!

Data Visualization 52

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started!

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Some people want to believe that they won’t happen or don’t want to talk about them so that they don’t risk being seen as bad at their job. I’ve never seen a roadmap naming the bugs a team wants to introduce?—?but The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the IEEE , is the body responsible for standards in software.

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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do people move into staff engineering roles? They likely don’t have all the answers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started!

Data Visualization 52

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI. McKinsey has estimated that AI technology could generate $60 billion to $110 billion per year in economic value for the pharma and medical-product subsectors alone.

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Userpilot

MARCH 11, 2024

We’ll explore its features, pricing, and offer a comprehensive review to aid in your decision-making process. You can have a hard time getting the software problems fixed quickly since you might rarely get an instant response from the support team. Let’s get started! import) to submit your batch.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Yet most of the product community’s dialogue centers around the relationship with product and engineering. I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ).

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said billable).  Building  A very big difference.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems. features.  Commitments

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

For more: Best of Lenny’s Newsletter | Hire your next product leader | Podcast | Lennybot | Swag Subscribe now In my quest to develop a comprehensive benchmark to measure progress toward AI replacing PMs, I teamed up with full-time prompt engineer (and past collaborator) Mike Taylor on a piece that will surely blow your mind.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 19, 2021

In our early days, like many other companies, we prioritized the speed of shipping over maintaining the consistency and interconnectedness of our system. We knew we had to change tack and find a way to align teams and functions as we scaled. Alongside this issue, we were quietly building another type of debt: functional debt.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

The other group (product, engineering, design, long-term support, product marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on overall impact for the whole installed base, long-term investments, and the need to support every line of code that any user has in production.  What will incent large numbers of customers to upgrade or renew?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team. a product leader.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Not just in product reviews, roadmap meetings, or design critiques from product people, but across the company. Here, Stephen discusses our engineering principle “Start with the problem”. There are several common patterns among failed solutions: The team didn’t have a good understanding of the problem to begin with.

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