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Kirk Fernandes

(He/him)

New York, NY, USA Β· Product Design

Experience

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Merit
VTS
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Hightower

Education

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University of Waterloo

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πŸ““About me

Love to talk about building products and teams.

Product Design

Skilled in

⭐️Why I mentor

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Talk to me about

πŸ›°οΈ Working remotely for the first time

πŸ›‚ Being an immigrant in tech

πŸš€ Launching products and measuring success

πŸ’» Managing remotely

πŸ”­ Product vision and strategy

🏘️ Surviving a merger or acquisition

🎯 Setting team goals and metrics

πŸ›  Year One in Product

πŸ”¬ Useful user research

πŸ’ž Working in cross functional teams

πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘¦β€πŸ‘¦ Team happiness & productivity

🐣 Becoming a people manager

πŸ—ΊοΈ The technical or people track?

😰 Managing burnout

πŸ’¬ Giving and receiving feedback

❀️‍πŸ”₯ Building your first team

Recommendations

Here’s what Merit users have said about Kirk

Kirk listened very well to my challenge and asked great questions to understand the root cause. He gave me very actionable advice. Thanks so much.

Claire F
Jul 18th 2023

It was great learning about Kirk's journey with Get Merit and the platform itself via a very candid conversation! Super insightful and lots of learning for myself as someone interested in starting up something of my own and interested in mastering the 0 to 1 process!

AP
Arrchana Pradeepan
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League Inc

Software Engineer

Jul 18th 2023
Aida (Aydan) LENGERLI
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Senior Product Manager

Jul 21st 2023

✍️   Recent Answers

How can I prepare myself for PM interviews?

Sophia!

I would look at a few sources like this:

  • https://thepminterview.com/
  • https://www.tryexponent.com/
  • Try Merit's mock interviewing topic to practice with real PMs: https://www.get-merit.com/mentors?name=&roles=Product%20Management&sort=DEFAULT&topics=5eab30a385481e0004364bee

Talking to PMs who work in similar roles you want to work at it is a great first step

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