Most engineering managers are better at stakeholder alignment because they are more technical. They are also better at customer engagement because they are more technical. With AI, you can write docs fairly quickly. If I were a PM, I'd start looking at other career options with urgency. This role will die in 2-3 years max.
Don't worry buddy, you won't be a virgin forever.
I don't know what was even the need for this role. I have to explain all technicalities to a non tech person who explains it to co-pm and which finally goes to another manager. Such a stupid role. This should be done between tech managers
My pm is about to start bakery business
Lmao "better at stakeholder management because they're more technical" -- that's not how stakeholder management works buddy
This made me chuckle
Show me where PM touched you. Lol
VMware should be cautious while saying such things, we have some of the worst product managers I've seen over last ~28 years in the industry. They dont understand the domain, they dont understand what the customer is saying during calls and ask us to explain again later, are unwilling to learn even when we offer to teach, dont even know how to log in to the demo systems, ask engineering teams for giving demos to customers or to help explain the value of the product to the customers, give product requirement documents of 5-6 lines (chatgpt does a better job at generating those documents), and above all, have a very strong dunning-kruger syndrome. There is a reason why our products are in such doldrums. In VCF, we have a saying that we deliver reasonably money making products inspite of product managers and not because of product managers. If customer asks for, say, a pizza, these guys ask the engineering team to extract olive oil from olives, coz hey, olive oil is needed for pizza, right? or is it engine oil? (wait, let me check with the engineering team on this and get back to you) I've met one good product manager in my 10+ years here, who really knew the domain and did good work, she left within one year and went to amazon.
I don't disagree. I just thought my comment was funny not to be taken seriously. I have 25yoe.
By PM are you referring to product manager, program manager, project manager or something else?
If pm is all about writing docs then I feel for you. MS is slow for a reason. Yes, lot of roles that pm does can be distributed but are they skilled enough? The complain that you gave from pm, you will have the same from Engineering mgr.
Eng roles are going to be absolute too..AI can write better code..Haha just saying...PM defintely, I agree.
There are fields where PM is needed. But not in typical software engineering around bay area.
It is irrelevant for the past 12 years