[pedalpete]

I'm a full stack that is now 'Product Engineer', so both PM and SE. My company moved me to that position from just an SE because I was having major disagreements with how Product Management was being handled in our team.

At first they put me to full time PM, then I wanted to get back to doing some code. I felt a bit lost as a full time PM at first, but after about 6 months, I'm getting used to it and suspect in the next year I'll be moving away from code as our product grows.

If you have the opportunity to do PM work in your current team, I highly recommend it.

So, would I hire a SE as a PM, I'd more likely hire the SE as a PE, or SE and try transitioning them if that is what they want. No guarantee they'd be good at it though.