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kwang88

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    Agreed – and fwiw if this line resonates: "you are interested in having a more flexible career, and not just writing code, but also getting more into the "business" side of things"…

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    (Author here) Regarding empowerment/trust: those factors are definitely critical to PMs' success, but I'd also argue that finding folks who can thrive with this independence is its…

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    (Author here) Agreed on your point. I didn't go into a ton of depth about the details of the interview, but fwiw this is always addressed in depth during the course of the product …

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    A process that I've seen have some success (years ago): Start with a very, very simple initial phone screen or take-home test, intended to basically verify whether the candidate ca…

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    If I'm correctly understanding the question, you should get the 83b form asap, as there's no downside to having the choice to exercise your options. As mentioned elsewhere once you…

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    Definitely can be true, although I think that there are a lot of potential paths. My advice would be to determine what is driving you to want to shift from Engineer => PM. If it's …

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    Engineering is in higher aggregate demand (there are more open eng roles as the ratio of Engineers:PMs is high, and the minimum qualification bar to be an engineer is higher ie you…

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    One of the other issues that I've seen with Untappd and many of the other beer rating companies is that their ratings systems are heavily biased by the nature of their users and/or…