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- Do product (eng) teams at Google work in bi-weekly sprints? What’s the sprint planning cadence and release frequency in sprint teams at Google? #google Do they have sprints every 2 weeks and release every 4 weeks? What is the timeframe of OKR planning/goals? Do Product Managers lead sprint grooming, estimation, retros and demos? Which of these roles are dr
- Longest caffeine productivity sprint Assuming enough break before scheduled sleep time to sleep full hours every day, what's the max realistic caffeine binge length without creating withdrawal headaches? Upping amount each day as much as is safe is OK Weekly cycles three days on, one day half, and three days off work OK for me long te
- Stuck in bad communication with PM in sprints I work as a junior MLE. My team was previously composed of an engineering manager, tech lead(TL), and a couple of engineers, including me. My work was to research and implement ML models from scratch and deploy them to production. I also started collaborating with scientists in other teams to impro
- link Brex vs. Ramp values I understand you have competing products, but why do you have to copy the exact same 6 values from each other: Brex: * Dream big * One Brex * Inspire customer love * Ownership * Growth mindset * Impatient optimism Ramp: * Think big * Put the team first * We feel for our customers * We are all ow
- vote Do you fake progress in scrum? I have faked my progress in Daily scrum, but cover everything before the sprint ends. My work productivity varies every day. I usually work extended hours during last 4-5 days of the sprint. YOE: 2 TC: 180k
- PM interview struggles Had rejections after onsites at 3 of the MAANG. Few other reject/ghosts from mid sized (series B to D) startups. Never did any preparation, and took the sign of getting to onsites easily as I can maybe skirt by. Today’s rejection was a wake up call that PM interviews require serious prep and study
- Need Productivity Recommendations for AWS Team Hello everyone, I’m currently a manager in an org at AWS. As of recent my team is not performing to the standard set by management and rather than go through a standard PIP process, leadership and I are looking at ways to improve productivity on the team. Please let me know your thoughts below 1) I
- How to stop getting blocked on random issues? Does anyone else lose a lot of productivity hours due to getting blocked on laptop, build related, configuration, software bugs when working through sprint tasks? I’m a mid level engineer with 5 YOE and continuously lose sometimes half a day of work from mundane issues like these. Sometimes when st
- DoorDash making dashers participate in one sprint cycle per month starting next year A lot of people at doordash hired during Covid were upset about the WeDash requirement for SWEs to do mandatory dashes to learn the product, so Tony has agreed this morning that random full time dashers will be placed on SWE teams for one sprint cycle per month to “learn the product” that they use.
- Agile/Mini Waterfall Process Suggestions Feature development in my company is not 100% agile but does follow two weeks sprint which consists of development (by developers), testing (by QA) and UAT (Product/Stakeholder). I have noticed most of the times, Development and QA activities take majority of the sprint and push stories to UAT tow
- do you tell when you’re done with your work early? If you committed to certain amount of work, and you finish all of that work early during the sprint, do you notify the PM? I don’t, since I know more work will just be assigned to me. I rather spend that extra time doing things I like than completing more work for the PM. I would go as far as actu
- dude in team takes credit for others' work so we have a sprint retro where each of us has to say "1 good thing that you did last sprint" (yes our retros are that moronic). then a dude said "I'm very pleased that *we* got feature X done for our product". feature X is done by another team member and me. The entire team including management w
- How long to prep for FANG PM interviews? Assuming I have almost zero relevant PM experience, how long should I prep for FANG level PM interviews? 1month? What are the best resources? I’ve got: Decode and Conquer, Inspired, Sprint, How to crack the PM interview, Lean Startup. Are there any other books or resources I should get?
- Should I knowingly work slower? So this keeps happening to me At the beginning of sprint I receive tasks like everyone else (maybe a bit more since I am full-stack dev) I usually work through them fairly quickly and in between sprint I keep getting getting tasks/bugs injected into my board Initially I didn't had any problems wi
- Metawork makes me miserable By meta work I mean: sprints, “agile”, “estimating”, OKRs, dealing with product and clueless PMs. It fucking sucks. I just want to write code and get paid. Why do I have to play these dumb games to give someone who has a mostly made up job something to do?
- Pregnancy Brain I'm 3 weeks away from going on maternity leave and am struggling to be productive right now. I feel like pregnancy hormones are literally frying my brain and it's so difficult to stay focused on complex technical work. Not to mention every other debilitating 3rd trimester symptom 😭 Any other pregn
- AWS TPM or PM-T - which to choose? I have two internal job switch offers to move from PM (non-tech) role to a TPM or PM-T (unrelated - two separate offers, teams). Which should I pick given that the job duties that was explained by both teams are identical (customer interaction, backlog grooming, dev/sprint mgmt)? TC: L6 - 260K (no
- SWE Protip: start doubling your point estimates Is the WLB at your job stressing you out? Try this one weird trick! Next time you estimate the work that you are going to do, double the estimate! Hell, triple it! That card in JIRA that changes the color of the text from blue to green? That's a 3 pointer now. It's going to require some refact
- vote Is Cash really King? Choosing between two good offers: 1. SA role at lesser known Tech company, 280k base + 10k annual RSUs. Challenging but fun work with sprint periods. 2. PM role at a major tech company, 195k base + 80k signing bonus + 120k RSU + 50k performance bonus. Less exciting but likely easier and less hour
- Is this normal for a PM role? Context - recently joined as a new PM after switching over from Eng. role. I have "full ownership" of the product, which I was excited about at the time of the interview. Turns out that I'm working as a product owner (leading sw sprints, troubleshooting, requirements mgmt.), business analyst (market
- vote Is it true that those who do more than they are paid for will soon be paid for more than they do? E.g. - software engineer that takes on more stories and defects per sprint than expected - tech lead that leads two teams when they are just paid to lead one - product manager that manages two teams when they are just paid to manage one - engineering manager that does more than what is expected - pr
- Can I tell my manager that I cannot complete same story points as others in the team? We are a team of 4 developers and I am the slowest one, meaning, I cannot complete same amount of story points as other developers on the team complete in a sprint. I always work extra hours to be on par with them. I don’t know if others do the same but I don’t want to continue doing this as it is
- How many mobile engineers do you have on each team at your company? I’m quite curious on how many people do you all have on your mobile teams. I work for a startup and at most we had four people on the iOS Team and four on Android. Our main product is our mobile app. Workload is overwhelming and every 2 week sprint ends up becoming 3 weeks.
- Facebook has no stand-ups or sprint cycles? I'll be starting at FB soon. From the convo I had with existing engineers and manager I have come to understand that there are generally no sprint cycles or daily stand-ups? And are people working on 6 month long projects? So as an E5 engineer am I supposed to come up with most impactful project o
- Transition career from data analyst to product manager I’ve been working as a data analyst for the past 4 years and looking to transition as a product manager. I’ve had experience as a product manager for an internal customer tool over the past 2 years and covered almost every aspect of end user interaction, sprint planning, prioritization, A/B testing,
- Transition to PM roles Currently SDE, 3 years experience. I want to transition to PM roles. How can i achieve that without at MBA and very limited almost no opportunity for over time transition in current job. Community, please suggest. P.S. If anybody hiring for Product Management r /Associate Product Manager in India,a
- What do developers really think about daily stands (led by a non-developer)? I’m a product manager and the VP of engineering has enforced daily stands for all our developers. They go through the Jira board every morning and say what they’re working on (basically stating what is on the board). If someone has a question for another dev, they’ll say something like “I left a com
- What does a SWE1 get PIP’d for? I joined my company about 6mo ago, and we started wfh about 3 months ago. Working from home has been really rough for me, and the last few weeks Ive been slipping kind of hard. Its not like I havent done anything, but Ive been finishing about 60% of my sprints while my TM’s typically finish about 90
- Transition from software engineer to product management I am a software engineer focussed more on the front end technologies having an experience of 3 years. I have been certified for CSPO. In my current company I have been working on development as well as I lead scrum activities of sprint planning, backlog refinements, Retrospective, writing user stor
- Who else is sick of agile and scrum masters I'm a new grad and this agile stuff is really something. All I hear from product/scrum managers is "should we put it in for next sprint", "isn't this out of scope of the ticket", "we should take this offline", "do you have any blockers?" As if developers are too disorganized or not "big picture" eno
- vote How toxic is my workplace?? Pms are rarely responsive. Ive been blocked on a ticket for half a year because they wont respond to me about requirements. Manager came to me asking about the ticket. Told them im blocked by missing requirements from another pm. Said theyd help anyway they could, reached out to them days later abo
- I’m a product manager of backend/platform/microservices - how do I make myself useful? I’m a product manager on a scrum team of a component in a microservices architecture. I created a poll last night which seems to have proven I may be useless. Link: https://us.teamblind.com/s/ERyJDapF I want to change that. How can I be useful as a microservice/backend/platform product manager? I
- I’m a product manager of backend/platform/microservices - how do I make myself useful? I’m a product manager on a scrum team of a component in a microservices architecture. I created a poll last night which seems to have proven I may be useless. Link: https://us.teamblind.com/s/ERyJDapF I want to change that. How can I be useful as a microservice/backend/platform product manager? I
- vote Dumpster fire PO role, but need some advice Hey everyone. I’m in a role right now that has some organizational issues (two product analysts that i’m responsible for, but don’t report directly to me) and dozens of top down initiatives with tight deadlines and strong push. I’ve pushed back on each of them so I can prioritize higher impact init
- When is too soon to leave? Shitty Amazon team Joined Amazon 3 months back. Joined a really shitty team, only one other developer that doesnt give a shit about the product, code reviews are really simple, 0 tests, no processes. Not even sprint planning or scoping. Talked to manager about it, says its a low point in our team and hoping to turn it
- vote Weird Interview A recruiter from some agency asked me details like how long is your sprint cycle, what my company’s product is programmed in, do i mostly work on maintaining code or building it from the scratch, where are remote teams located, how many people are there in my team etc. Then stopped interview when I
- I'm Ten Points up on the Kanban Board Right Now Just wiped out my Jira tasks. My team just feels down, I've reassured them now we're heading back on track. Now we're in a pleasant sprint spree. Look at the PM smiling at the burn-down. Take me to your meeting to plan sprints today. You can assign me this story, but note I'm out that day. I really
- Designer's influence in FAANG How does cross platform collaboration work in FAANG? I work in a startup and some of my ideas are shot down for various reasons - even when I am able to demonstrate solid value proposition. How do you engage with PMs and EMs to push designs to sprints? For example, folks at Amazon - do you think so
- Senior designer is taking credit for my work I’m an associate product designer, and a senior designer on my team is taking credit for my work. She is supposed to be “overseeing” my projects and “mentoring” me... In reality I get 0 feedback and my ideas stolen. I sent her a few finished mocks for ideas I had yesterday, and she didn’t respond.
- Making the transition from SWE to Product Management Hi, I am looking to transition to Product Management from SWE role. I have 5 years of SWE experience. Any advice on how I can make the transition? I am currently working as a front-end engineer at an enterprise software company; I have experience leading a dev team as well as managing backlogs, sp
- From SME to PM I am currently a Subject Matter Expert in Mortgage Underwriting for a startup. Been in tech for 6 months, but mortgage for 10+ years. I have taken on several of the “PM responsibilities” and more of a leadership role within our product team. Now helping to plan for sprints, groom the backlog, assig
- UX research.... I’m new to Research and am currently trying to better understand this space. Does anyone else feel like they always need to fight for their voice in meetings with stakeholders (developers, product, designers)? I’m a bit of an introvert and feel like product & devs try to keep me off of the convers
- Stressed being a SWE I’ve been a SWE for a few years now and I always feel stressed out whenever I have to work on a new task. I don’t mind learning new languages or frameworks but coding at work is stressful because of deadlines and sprints. Perhaps SWE is not for me? However, I feel accomplished every time I’m able t
- I love being a data scientist but not the crazy hours I have worked as a data scientist for 5 years now. I have reached the senior level with a TC equivalent of 120 k$. I love my job but I resent the fast paced, no pause robotic Agile sprint culture, the stakeholders who have never ending demands, and the horrific long hours, from 8:30 to 9 pm everyday
- I am both a Product and Project Manager - is it good? Hi all! I work at a web agency - aka we make websites. As days passed by, I realized that I start off as a product manager ie; - Involved in client calls - User journeys, personas, competitive set discussion, user experience, product requirements gathering, pain points analysis, etc Then I move on
- Deadline vs Good Quality Code I am facing a challenge to deliver within timeline . I almost ended up writing a whole component to be deployed in production . The component works well in QA stages but am fixing alongside the PR review comments but my manager is like we need to ship the code as per deadline . I am totally not con
- Quality of 'Offshore' Contractors So this was my first client project with a new company, that leveraged 'offshore' developers to aid in the development efforts. First observations, offshore contractors introduced a much higher number of defects than company FTE's, most were less than active participants during sprint/epic/user sto
- PM Pressure I estimated 2 sprints to work on a feature; I suggested that I want to keep 3 days buffer primarily because I’ve not worked on some components on a feature; but the PM says you are taking way too much time to complete the feature; I said if I complete it before, I will take in other features and com
- vote Product Careers In Chicago? I (6 YOE) am in the final stages for opportinities in Chicago. My wife (4 YOE) is a PM at a public FinTech company in NY. (Had offer from FB, liked culture at fintech) I was hoping to get some insight into product careers in Chicago. Looking online, Uber is the only big company I see with positions
- Senior Engineer / Tech Lead difference making As a senior engineer/ to be tech lead, how do you make difference in your team? Do you proactively take tech debts to make systems better? Do you proactively do refactoring? Do you continuously strive for developer productivity? Or you spend most of the time on sprint / product road map items? My p