For anyone that made the switch, is it worth it and what was the transition like? I'm getting tired of engineering and have always wanted to try PM, but I haven't been dealing with PMs long enuf to know what exactly they do
Someone at work who a software engineer transitioned to PM. The opportunity presented itself when a a PM had just left the company. There was a need in that role. While still working as a software engineer 10-20% of the time he used the other time to do they duties of a PM (with manager approval of course). Heās now a PM and heās kicking butt. The type of engineers that thrive at this are amazing communicators, outgoing, ānot afraid to speak up type of folksā and team players.
Engineers can easily become PMs, but the other way around is way more challenging. Ask a PM to debug a prod issue or implement a major feature ššš
Not sure itās worth it.
At least PMs don't have to do the more rigorous and skilled stuff, like debugging production issues etc. Anyone can come up with product ideas, may be smart PMs come up with better ones, but only those with the right coding skills can implement it. PM is a semi skilled job.
Dam you must have a horrible PM
Rather 'skilled stuff' is less generalizable.
Product or program
How did sundar do it
Yeah I'm tired of engineering too, aka answering other people's questions. How do I become the guy that asks the questions?
That isnāt how being a PM works. They just get asked questions by dumber people.