Currently working as a sr. Product Manager in finance industry. Have experience with real time streaming and ML based applications. I am very interested in distributed data technolgies and my ideal job would be with a company/team like Mongodb, CrDB, Elastic, Snowflake etc. Have applied to these companies in the past but they all look for very relevant experience and aggresively reject my applications. Any inputs on how to break in to this industry will be really appreciated.
Way easier to come in as an internally focused product manager (I.e. joining a developer productivity group, building internal tools and systems for other engineers and then after learning the space and the players switching to an external product after 18 months+.)
Man, I feel like the question should be how to get out of the dev tools industry. Feels like this is all we ever work on