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Simplify Mentorship with a Merit Mentor Profile

Becoming a mentor on Merit is a great way to give back to the tech community and help foster DE&I in product, engineering, and design. After you become a mentor on Merit, you can customize your profile and configure your mentorship settings. These settings determine how and when

Telling Your Story as a Product Manager: All You Need to Know to Approach PM Interviews with Confidence

Going through a PM interview requires a combination of insight into potential discussion topics, concise storytelling, and branding yourself as the right match for the role. Most PM interviews are a series of conversations with various team members and leadership. They can last from 3-5 rounds depending on the company’

Bringing Connections Into Real Life: Merit's First Event

Merit held its first in-person event on Wednesday, November 9. We’d planned for it to be a space for mentors and members to meet and connect in person. Although we firmly believe in the value of remote mentorship, we also want to provide opportunities for folks to connect in

New: Save Time with the Merit Scheduler

Merit has a new-and-improved scheduling flow! We're excited to launch the streamlined and simplified experience for booking a mentorship session. We're committed to facilitating great mentorship conversations. An important step in connecting mentors and members is scheduling the mentorship session. But our existing architecture wasn'

Looking for a Tech Job? Nail Your Job Search with Merit

Finding a job has never been easy. Submitting your resume, trying to give a good impression in an interview, hoping you’ll hear back: each step leaves you feeling nervous and uncertain. The process requires time and hard work with no certain payoff. It can feel incredibly lonely. Fortunately, you

The 5 Types of Mentors You'll Need Throughout Your Career

Your career is a journey. Along the way, you’ll hit stumbling blocks, pitfalls, and detours. Having someone to help you navigate career challenges can make an enormous difference. Whether you’re setting goals or detangling a thorny work problem, asking for help can improve your decision-making and unblock you.

Breaking into Product Management: Office Hours with Jen Hau

Welcome to Merit Office Hours! This week we're talking with Merit mentor, investor, and advocate Jen Hau. We do a deep dive breaking into product management. Jen shares her own experiences both as a lawyer-turned product manager and now as a hiring manager who interviews aspiring PMs. Jen

How to Create a Product Management Job Search

Looking for a job in product management can be a challenge in multiple ways. First, you need to understand a PM’s role and how this role shows up at a particular company you are interviewing for. Second, it’s important to define what kind of product management work you

6 Ways to Ace Product Roadmap Prioritization

One of the hardest parts of a product manager’s job is prioritization. Product managers receive feedback from customer interviews, NPS surveys, internal requests, user behavior, and more. They then must take all those inputs and transform them into a coherent set of prioritized work: a roadmap. To take a

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