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What questions should you ask during your one-on-ones with the engineers, design, support, marketing and sales team during your first month at the company?

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  1. Aleks Bass
    Aleks Bass

    Typeform Chief Product Officer • 3y

    Every organization is different and has a different culture, different role definitions, different ways of getting work done, different objectives, secret sources of power, and unwritten rules. Finding out about as many of these things as you can as quickly as possible will be extremely helpful to you in your career.  Lets start with the questions to ask your R&D partners (engineering, design, research, operations, and in some situations product marketing). Every company has challenges and o ...Read More

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  2. James Heimbuck
    James Heimbuck

    ATG Group Product Manager | Formerly Doppler, GitLab, Twilio/SendGrid • 2y

    There is a lot to learn from your new team when starting and it can be tempting to jump right into what they can help you build first or what their problems are and you will get to that soon enough. Before that I like to start building processes and systems so all of those groups can self-serve information as much as possible without you becoming a blocker to them doing their jobs. So asking what kind of information they need/expect/want from Product Management and how they want to get that info ...Read More

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