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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. Basically, the strategy is similar.

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Build Strong Product Teams by Hiring Graduates

Mind the Product

It’s partly because few companies that hire PMs attend university careers fairs and so careers advisers and tutors are not aware of or familiar with the role. We set them a small introductory project that is low risk, and pair them with an experienced developer who can coach them on working with software engineers.

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e-Justice Systems: The Robot Judge and the Consequences of its ‘Morals’

The Product Coalition

The full-fledged introduction of AI systems in the field of law is hampered by a number of technical difficulties. However, most of them can be solved by optimizing existing algorithms or developing alternative technical solutions. the moral aspect of a robotic judge. This seems to automatically discharge the use of AI.

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.

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Scrum Development Team Anti-Patterns

The Product Coalition

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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How to Successfully Transition from Consulting to PM

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.