Best way to become a PM is via internal transition to a product role I recommend it to anyone who wants to get into pm. No downside only upside plus you can always move back to prior role if you realise pm is not what you thought.

Product Head

It's very tough.... With lot of gaga around PM, many folks want to become PM. But the supply is way higher then demand

Product Manager

Learning PMing from prep books is almost like learning swimming from YouTube.

Share your experience. Is it as simple as slogging the PM prep books, taking mocks, etc? With the influx if so many candidates from cohort based courses, how easy or hard is it?

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How hard is it to get a PM job?

How hard is it to get a PM job?- Grapevine

Is it possible to land a PM job in the current market if I have 2 months and aggressively look for jobs.

By Aggressively I mean, not just easy apply on Linkedin or even rather any org’s job board but actively sending cold emails/dms to founders, product heads and hiring managers and also trying to utilise professional connections. 

PM with overall 5 years of experience across Product (3 years), Marketing and Strategy/Business.

How hard is it?

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Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

Recently my company posted an opening for a PM job (5+yoe) on LinkedIn and i got final year engineering students from Tier 1/2/3 institutions in my DM asking for a referral for the job. 
I was like wtf at least first get 2-3 year of  any corporate experience and then think about moving to PM role. Why are freshers preparing for PM job out of a sudden

Why is there a sudden rise in craze for PM job

I'm interviewing for a PM role at Flipkart. 

Done with 3 rounds and was told there at 3 more rounds? I think that's unusually high. 

What's the avg salary for PM at Flipkart? 

I'm interviewing for PM 1 but ideally would want a PM 2 role. 

Exp: 
2 years as PM post MBA (tier 1)
2 years as Android dev and 8 months as PM pre MBA

Flipkart PM interview and salary

PM with 5 years of experience, AMA

I am a 3rd year student from tier -3 private college, pursuing btech  is it possible to get PM roles just after under graduation, have seen people from tier -1/2 pursuing vague branches like coal mineral sort of engineering and still be able to crack roles as a PM at tech companies . Also one should aim for a role like this after undergrad or just it demands more exp? Also any roadmap you would recommend

PM role after Undergrad ?

No, I'm not talking about the job market. That's dog shit -- barely any vacancies, and engineers earn 25%ish more. 

However, in a world with 10x better Co-Pilots and other GenAI tools, problem identification is going to be every employee's moat. 'Tech-Enabled' Business PMs will have the brightest futures. There's already a rise in PM-led vs Eng-led startups. This will become clearer 5-10 years down the line.

Also, supply-demand is not as skewed as you think. Everyone thinks this job is easy, and hence, a bunch of folks are aspiring PMs on LinkedIn. I believe quality PMs are still rare (personally have a long way to go).

Would love to hear more. I'm young in my career and maybe naive but this is what I feel.

Unpopular Opinion: It's a great time to be a PM

1. High pressure on timelines- business and top management shits on you if you don’t deliver on time
2. No power to control the outcome- engineers don’t listen to you neither does the design or analytics team, you end up begging for resources
3. Too much politics- business or a senior PM can steal your bandwidth anytime
4. Lack of recognition- if it succeeds business did it, if it fails it is product teams fault (engg never gets blamed for shit)

I believe Product Management is a really toxic role

-How did you land your 1st PM Job (referral, placement, LinkedIn, carrers, connections/network.......or any other crazy story)
-What were you doing before becoming PM (If fresher please let us know)
-Skillset that helped you break into this field
-Current salary/Joining salary (If it's CTC, then what is the breakdown)
-YOE Now, YOE before joining as PM
-Education qualification while joining as PM
-Your definition of a PM
-Anything that you would like to add

1st PM Job

Quant Trader

Hi guys,

I am a senior frontend dev (lead) with 8 years of experience. Just have a BCA degree from 3 tier college.

After years of staring at screen constantly for good 10+hrs, i want to make a move to Non Tech role like PM or Engg Manager Role.
Help with what all options do I have to make a switch- 
1- MBA from Normal xyz college will give a low yield
2- MBA from Ivy league will take time to crack and complete.
3- PMP course just for the sake of it
4- Pmp course from ISB or Keylogg to actually learn it
Currently 33 age, ctc 36lpa fixed.
Also, will I be able to get similiar ctc ?

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