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 at Gmail do? How do they fill up their day? I mean how many experiments can one perform?
Is PMing at that scale majorly just project management?
For PMs who moved from high growth startups to companies like PayPal, Google, Microsoft -- do you get bored?
That extra space/comma before 'do' is hurting my eyes. GV overlords, please introduce edit soon
PM team at Gmail must be working hard on how to integrate ai in their products.
They also work on mail delivery systems. In February Google changed its policy on how they deal with email marked as 'spam'. If professional Google mails are reported as spam more than 0.5% of total mails sent, they get blacklisted.
Other than this, these are quite matured products. The PM team majorly focuses on not cause any fuckup, than to make any extraordinary change in the product, which in turn would be a major fuck-up
What they really do is move some buttons around and chill tf out.
1/5 Is joining as a PM at an early stage startup worth it? Absolutely! You'll wear many hats, learn fast, and have a huge impact.
2/5 PM at big companies vs small companies? Big companies offer resources, established processes, and grea...
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 ...
So I've met many PMs in my career. Most have been sub par, poor performers, can't even do IC work. The ones who can do IC work, can't think. The IC work is generally project management not product. They need someone to tell them directio...
