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by BSOhealth
349 days ago
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Seems like anyone surprised by this isn’t tracking what big/biggish tech product leaders are already moving toward; the roles of PM, UX/design, and POC dev are going to blur dramatically over the next 1-2 years. Eventually, a solid CSM should be able to hear a customer pain point, spit out a quick POC, and begin a segmented rollout to validate it as quickly as possible. Also agree with suspicion around this post though… big tech interviews, especially in AI adjacent roles, are going to be structured well enough that this probably wasn’t actually a surprise. I’d much more believe the reverse: “I was told I would have a technical/vibe coding component and didn’t!” (much less exciting headline of course) |
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PMs who started before 2012 or after 2022 tend to have a product mindset ("I'm building a product to solve a problem").
This requires domain experience - you can't learn this from an MBA. You need to have started of working in that field in order to become a truly strong product manager. Before the 2010s, most MBA PMs tended to be staff or principal engineers, sales engineers, or support engineers sponsored by their employer to attend part-time MBA programs like Berkeley Haas [0] or Stanford HCP MS&E [1]as a finishing school and return as a business minded engineer.
Google and Twitter (back under Dorsey in 2010-11) changed the whole PM hiring process industry wide by prioritizing MBB personas and MBB-style interviews as one of their heads of PM at the time was a former Partner at McKinsey and brought the McK process into the tech industry, despite more product minded people like Salar, Marissa, and Sundar helping build core fundamentals of what became the Google behemoth (Xooglers, please correct me if the history is wrong - it's been 15 years and I do think I messed up some of the chronology).
[0] - https://ewmba.haas.berkeley.edu/
[1] - https://msande.stanford.edu/academics-admissions/graduate/ms...