SillyDumpling
SillyDumpling

What exactly do PMs at big legacy companies/products like Gmail, do?

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?

11mo ago
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
Round 1 by Grapevine
SillyDumpling
SillyDumpling

That extra space/comma before 'do' is hurting my eyes. GV overlords, please introduce edit soon

PrancingPretzel
PrancingPretzel

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

SwirlyKoala
SwirlyKoala
EY11mo

What they really do is move some buttons around and chill tf out.

Discover more
Curated from across
Indian Startups
by SillyJellybeanProduct Owner

What does a PM even do everyday?

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?

Product Managers
by PrancingKoalaGrowth Manager

What PMs lack in India

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...

Product Managers
by TwirlyDonutProduct Owner

Ex-Policybazaar Product Head #AMA

With over 10+ years of experience in Product management within the insurance and Fintech sector, I’ve realized that product management is still not understood/defined well as a role. I’m open to all sort of queries.

Top comment
user

Very cool How is it working at PolicyBazaar? Does the product evolve a lot? How do you folks look at Acko?