PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Finally, you'll need to conduct some technical exercises before the conclusion of your phone interview. In some of the shorter phone screenings, technical exercises may be excluded. Be sure to ask questions such as: Should I expect behavioral questions, or should I prepare for a technical exercise or both?

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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. That being said, it’s still a learned skill which you can begin exercising today, no matter where you are in your career.

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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. The power of positive feedback. Their story isn’t uncommon.

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Split

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

An approach that we could recommend is to run the experiment as expected but to set the short-term goal, like customer satisfaction survey as your objective criteria, and roll it out to all customers if the impact after a few weeks is significantly positive. That comes with the limit of a Before-and-After comparison.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Brooks’ Law Frederick Brooks stated in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” Exercising more command & control to counter complexity does not work as any experienced leader will note. imposed from the outside?—?with

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2022

this biased position of judges is determined by the general “politics of disgust.” The politics of disgust make them, in particular, exercise judgment against representatives of sexual minorities, proceeding not so much from the requirements of the law as from personal preferences and individual moral norms.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

They’ve developed numerous frameworks to apply across different industries, exercising and refining them hundreds of times across their investing history with companies like Facebook, Slack, and Carta. ” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. If the recruiters deem you to be a good fit, you'll receive a digital video exercise.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Just to give us a bit more of an idea of what we’re working with here today, I thought it’d be nice if we did a quick exercise. We are wrapping our heads around it, we see the first positive impacts of it. Petra: But we know it’s not. You heard Teresa’s definition of product discovery.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

While you don’t need to know as much about technical product development as an engineer, you should have a good enough understanding and basic knowledge of how technology works. For starters, having sound knowledge of technical product development will make it easier for you to plan with software engineers.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

As a Product Lead, I continuously emphasize to our broader team the importance of defining personas so that we’re clear about who we’re targeting when shaping our product or positioning. This exercise developed our team’s first principles for understanding who we’re solving for. Here are a few ways we do it.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. The number and style of behavioral inquiries will differ per position, but expect a lot of them! Google and Google Cloud want to make sure you have the skills, expertise, and core competencies for the position.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. You do not have to have a software engineering background, but you should at the minimum be a good partner to developers. Apply anyway.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. You do not have to have a software engineering background, but you should at the minimum be a good partner to developers. Apply anyway.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 3, 2020

Some of these roles include software engineering, product design, data analysts, sales, marketing, and customer support. After roughly two years of working in an entry level product position, they can expect to be promoted to a mid level product role. After all, PM is in and of itself an interdisciplinary role.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Why Truly Multidisciplinary Teams Can Lead to Building Better Products Every discipline needs a seat at the table By Adam Talcott , Software Engineering Manager , YML Photo by Pascal Swier on Unsplash Imagine yourself as a software architect or tech lead, and a project manager brings you in to a new software project.

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Izenda

JULY 22, 2020

Envisioning why some team dynamics work and others do not requires a bit of mental exercise. Say you have a formidable “A-Team” of software engineers. Why Complementary Skills Are Less Important Than Complementary Personality Types. So, let’s warm up. One is a master at building APIs. Another cranks out code at lightning speed.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested. Conclusion.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 2, 2020

A software engineer at a fintech startup recently recounted a story of how a simple text change on mobile notifications led to a jump in engagement from 5% to 50%: The moment I realised the power of "nudges" was at Monzo when we changed the push notification copy on P2P transfers to include "Tap to say thanks!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

As such, BOLD interns can access many mentorship opportunities, leadership talks, and team-building exercises to build connections with colleagues throughout Google. If you want to contribute to technology products and tools used by billions, an engineering internship at Google is a great start.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This conference serves a great purpose to give a home to a more mature, understated-but-enormous part of the software industry. Title: Software Engineering Manager. I’m working on exploring answering with “I don’t know” and exercising that. The one that I’ve been thinking about the most is April’s talk on positioning.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This conference serves a great purpose to give a home to a more mature, understated-but-enormous part of the software industry. Title: Software Engineering Manager. I’m working on exploring answering with “I don’t know” and exercising that. The one that I’ve been thinking about the most is April’s talk on positioning.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 6, 2020

And as an optimist that’s a problem for the good and the positive outcomes and use of technology. Now the old way of thinking as a customer service agent that’s a two minute exercise right. And as a technology exercise yeah that actually checks a lot of boxes large volume of data it’s proprietary.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It is no secret that software engineering interviews are rigorous and extensive today. Nevertheless, there are some general trends you can expect in many of your software engineering interviews. Nevertheless, there are some general trends you can expect in many of your software engineering interviews.

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