[TylerJewell]

It's hard for me to speculate how much our PMs are working. No one in our company is micro managing the PMs and their day to day work. But usually, what happens with PMs is that they become accountable for some revenue targets, a set of releases, and a set of customers. These are all things that get scheduled or have targets which have a certain obligation / commitment that must be met. And the PMs just go on about doing that work.

When dealing with incredibly technical products that you are a PM for, almost all of the PMs have a strong passion for the area that they are involved. So there is a blending with personal growth and the products that they are responsible for. I personally am one of a couple PMs on one of our new initiatives at WSO2 where we have 150 engineers. I'm doing it because the technology area is in a domain that excites me, so it does border on being a hobby almost, and therefore I do not count the hours or dollar for dollar pay as much.