PM with 5 years of experience, AMA
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PunyDrama38
Stealth
2 years ago
do u enjoy the role? do u find it strategist role? like management consultant? How much mba is important? do recruiters do discrimination if u don't have pedigrees? Is the role really a mini ceo? please break few myths if possible 😅
1. Part of my role is giving direction to the product and teams around it. I have more skin in the game than a consultant but not as much as a founder would.
2. I think a good understanding of business fundamentals and your product's market really helps. MBA is one way to get it.
3. Recruiters at top companies hiring for top roles filter by pedigree. Majority of the market wishes they could hire pedigree but simply can't.
4. You do get to make a ton of decisions but mini CEO isn't the right analogy. In large organisations you always get paid to influence your seniors to think in the right direction. The CEO is always final decision maker.
5. A myth busted: PMing is no longer the saught after role it used to be. There's a ton of competition with the title being overused.
PunyDrama38
Stealth
2 years ago
how's the stress compared to engineering,wlb? what are the exit opportunities for u? Which companies in India u feel have good product culture? Can a pm go into inhouse strategy role? What are your chances of getting into top leadership role? Are those higher than sde?
LCollector
Stealth
2 years ago
As someone entering the workforce as IT project manager cum product owner this summer, how should one proceed to learn product management? ( Can't buy expensive courses from PM School, upraised,etc - still a student)
There's a single book covering the basics of PMing pretty well. Inspired by Marty Cagan.
Friends. I've become a part of the system now. I know which fights to pick and avoid in my organisation.
I've even become accustomed to engineers inflating their work estimates by 50%.
What was your first job and initial salary? And how has your salary growth been with every year on average?
Do you think you are currently underpaid / overpaid?
I started with a package of 8L. Switched to InMobi company in just a couple off months. Progression has been 8 -> 18 -> 25 -> 35 -> 45.
I think I'm earning well for myself. There are companies who can pay me more if I switch but I'll do it next year.
AstroBubbles
Stealth
2 years ago
What is your advice to someone who is not diplomatic by nature and is a product manager? How to navigate PMing while being a blunt person?
ig11
Stealth
2 years ago
Do you think not having an MBA is a significant disadvantage for someone who is already a PM? If yes, are there ways to make up for this? Should one just go for an MBA? To provide some context, I moved from eng to product a couple of years ago.
1) How do you see PM as career evolve in this decade and so on?
2) What does a Typical Day of yours look like?
3) The toughest part about your job? Hours you work now?
4) Mistakes you would have avoided during the course of your career.
Thanks for doing this. Cheers ! :)
1/ The PM role has already been made mainstream and is loosing it's market value every passing day because of that. It is very hard to differentiate yourself even if you're good in generic PM interviews.
In a decade, I see the value of the role dropping down.
2/ A typical day goes 80% in meeting people. I sync with my APMs, designers, engineers, business, analysts. I take standups and bigger team meetings as required. I'm pretty much responsible for my unit from a product+ business end right now and have to stay on top of it.
3/ Toughest part of my job is that there's too many internal teams and CXOs to deal with right now.
I work about 6-8 hours. This keeps changing. Some months get chill and others very hectic.
4/ Not doing product research/ talking to users enough. Most of my releases that failed did so because I got that wrong.
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