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How to prepare for software engineering interview questions

Intercom, Inc.

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. General software engineering interview questions. Questions about your background.

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Core Concept: The Product Trio

Product Talk

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. And they iteratively test and develop those solutions together. Tweet This. They interview customers together.

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Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product Talk

At the end of the project, we might do some validation research to validate the design (through usability testing) or the final delivery (through A/B testing ). Good product discovery teams engage in two key activities week over week: customer interviewing and assumption testing. The Need for Continuous Discovery. Tweet This.

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How to beta test, with award-winning learning app Pocket Prep

Usersnap

Surely all software companies are familiar with beta testing, but how well do you actually do it? We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. A feedback-driven example of beta testing.

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation metrics for at-scale production guardrails.

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Core Concept: What Roles are Represented in a Product Trio?

Product Talk

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 more exposure, for example, your engineers have to customers, the better they will be at their jobs. Some with quite a bit of outrage. Why didn’t I include user researchers?

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Building “Minicom”: How our engineering interviews illustrate our values

Intercom, Inc.

After spending months interviewing at companies of various sizes and success, I saw firsthand the unique styles of interviewing and testing across our industry. It struck me that most of these interviews were so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. At Intercom, the interview process is different.