[ren_engineer]

the position definitely exploded in recent years, but a lot of the cuts in the last few months have been these types of roles as well. Facebook called out non-technical managers pretty directly with Zuckerberg saying even managers should be writing code and I think other companies are realizing that many PMs are net negatives. At the end of the day it's a luxury position, the role in a smaller startup would be handled by a founder or an engineer who likes talking to customers

[candiddevmike]

I'm pretty sure Tom "I take the specs to the engineers" Smykowski was something like a product manager in Office Space.