Can PMs here please describe their day to day work? What kind of things do you work on? What scale of products/users do you deal with? Likes and dislikes about being a PM?
Not a PM so there will be gaps in my knowledge, but a PM is supposed to be like a mini CEO for a product, handling a single domain in a larger enterprise. Daily work includes:
While my answer sounds AI-zy, I have actually seen PMs in my current and previous workplace do these things. So yeah, speaking from experience here.
How do individual PMs work on features exactly? Just one feature shouldn't be that much workload right?
There's a lot of things that happen in the hood of a simple looking product, take for example a fairly okay sized booking platform for hotels, it can have multiple products like sponsored placement for hotels, customer review and rating services, listing management and verification services, payment services, internal services like customer service portal, and other internal features like recommendation systems, international law specific features etc. Now think about how Booking.com and other sites actually offer more than this, they have flights, buses and so on different verticals. When you consider these and then think of something like Amazon or Microsoft then you get many features to work on even for an individual PM.
Dono side se gaaliya khate hai pm,
On a separate note I saw a reel in which a dev and pm are arguing, then pm says bro your total comp is my base pay, then ding ding savage music and closes with advertisement for a quickly become PM course for xyz₹ , so looks like after DSA course it's next gold mine, if you're to become a hopium selling paisa hi paisa hoga 🤣
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When I say a big company, I mean $50B+ market cap. I think PMing at a smaller scale is much more intense in terms of work load. You are constantly doing a lot of 0-1/1-10/10-100.
But what about 100++ companies/products? What does a PM a...
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