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@chrismessina 👏👏👏 so grateful for your support and shared excitement on this tool! We couldn't agree more 🚀

@chrismessina can't thank you enough for these words and for believing in our product. Cheers! 🥂

@piersonmarks hahaha I LOVE IT ❤️. I could debate this for hours. Here are sooome of my thoughts on the topic: 1. DS&A interviews are just a tool. If you try to screw a screw with a hammer, you'll think the hammer is a terrible tool, but the truth is that it is being used incorrectly – and I have LOADS of thoughts on ways people are executing them wrong. Doesn't mean they need to be thrown away completely. 2. DS&A is a better reflection of reality than people give it credit for. Tree structures are everywhere for example – the web DOM is just a tree, and iterating through and manipulating trees with ease IS an important on the job skill. Dynamic programming are often simplified caching problems as another example 3. DS&A is fair (with LOTS of caveats). A lot of more "practical" skills assessments can actually unfairly disadvantage people coming from backgrounds where they have worked with unusual tech stacks. Dynamic programming is a great example of a type of question that is likely a poor question for certain roles, but I think CAN be a good question for certain other roles, depending on the team and company's goals. This was really challenging to write a comment that wasn't 10x longer, but again, a debate topic I welcome and love! Cheers 🥂

@sophienovati wow I wasn’t expecting such a well thought out and worded response. Interviews (for all roles) are just super hard! Wishing you the best on this launch :)

@lrueger Love the excitement! I hear you that Product Managers have been feeling the impacts of the job market recently too. We don't have that on the roadmap at the moment as our core demographic is SWEs (we were founded by ex-Meta SWEs, so that career is near and dear to our core!), but we've been working with some other creators and resources to collaborate on SWE / Product Manager Interview Prep Content that should hopefully be helpful to PMs like yourself :) Noted on the demand though — always good to hear from folks in the market themselves!

@nicole_rose_balsamo Thank you! It's definitely the right way to focus on SWEs. I think when you focus on technical PMs, you can really well expand the product to that direction. I'm sure you have enough connections from Meta to find the right content for that, but that's for another time. Good luck for today's launch!