When I was doing engineering, all the students were desperate about getting into consulting jobs. Now when I am about to graduate from MBA, all the students are crazy about PM roles. There is a craze among both post grads and graduates about PM. Large shift within 5 years. Any thoughts?
Don't have to do work but can still get and claim a lot of credit
i think the diverse knowledge that PM's need to have because they have to work with different teams is what makes this job attractive
Yes. But diverse doesnt grow on trees right? When will you have diverse knowledge? When you are actually into the industry doing real work for several years. PM role is not a student's job out of college. That's exactly what makes them dumb and unfortunately get called frauds 🙂
Money + Less tedious than consulting
What else
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 an...
Because of wrong impression and false glamorisation of the role by linkedin influencers
Almost every other post about PM function is as eye opening as this. What do you guys think?
A senior PM here, will play the devil’s advocate here. Don’t want to demean or offend anybody but as long as compan...
I am reading very often that the craze around product management is too much and this career is not worth the hype. Adding on to that it has huge supply of PMs and many of PMs are underpaid. Is it true?
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