Blind family. Currently, L6 PM at Amazon with 250k TC in Seattle, WA with 6 YOE in Product. Need your help deciding between two offers - Staff PM Tesla (TC 277.5K) vs Staff PM Walmart (TC 308K; RSU vesting is weird as full TC will be hit only in 4th year till then will only get % of annual RSUs). ...Read more
I’m curious…just how flexible are years of product experience listed in a job description? For context, I have 8 years of experience total. This includes 4 years in customer success and services at a unicorn tech startup where I was fairly senior with a team of 8+ direct reports. Nearly a year ago...Read more
Which company has happiest product management employees at lead/staff/principal level? Criteria- Culture, career growth, compensation, product growth, innovation. #pm #product #productmanager ##
For product folks in the Greater Seattle area, would any of you be interested in meetups? I couldn't find any active ones in the area. Edit: Here is the link for the event RSVP https://partiful.com/e/2HwF5eGpDbkkBCUl2H4Y Date: April 4, 2024 Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Location: Stoup Brewing, Capitol ...Read more
Hello All, I want to try to make the switch from program to product management. As I am actively in the market hoping to switch, I was hoping maybe I could speak to someone whom has made the switch before? Past tech companies include: Amazon Facebook -> Meta TikTok Thanks!
Does one need to be super business oriented, have a “Do anything to win” attitude, and slog it out in an industry one doesn't necessarily have a passion for (Basically all traits of an MBA)? I feel these are the real winners. Not the goody-shoes people (eg. Designer turned PMs), who are contentiou...Read more
I feel like I get too many inquiries on LI and IRL to answer so I'd like to take any questions folks have here so I can answer without much filter. Who am I? I've been a Senior Director of Product at various high growth tech companies in multiple industries and cities. I do not have a technical deg...Read more
I browsed 100 google product managers on LinkedIn. 95 percent of them went to Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, etc. Or had led well-known products previously. The exceptions were successful startup founders, niche profiles... Is LinkedIn data accurate? #pm #product #productmanager
Seriously folks, even Blind has 1M ppl chasing the very few jobs. Thanks to Lenny (which I like btw), Product School etc. everybody (new grads, internal, job hoppers) chased and still chasing the title due to high paying, no-code nature. Unlike many puppets saying in LI that PM job will thrive, I w...Read more
I've been a Product Manager for about 3.5 years now and was previously a software engineer for about 3 years. Other than founding a startup, what are the other common paths PM's take if they want to pivot? I'm tired of the politics/drama and I don't think taking a break will bring back that PM spar...Read more
Pros and cons? Currently at Google working on LLMs, but looking for something new.
Currently L4 at Goog 6 yoe, 4 as PM. Should I ask for retention at google or ask meta to meet LinkedIn?
What do you answer for this? For me, it is multitasking, however this doesn't seem like a good answer. It doesn't have much depth to it. #product #productmanager #pm
Hi! How difficult is it to transition from a fintech PM-T to FAANG PM-T? I am starting to look but having no luck in getting the resume shortlisted by recruiters. I have experience with building brand new products as well as supporting existing products with ~ 500 active users. Update - it’s 500 c...Read more
Wondering what head of product for different sized companies make. Anyone have any insight for what salaries for this position are for 0-50 sized companies? 50-100? 100-200? Etc. Etc.
Anyone thinking of switching from product management to other roles and how are you going about it? This has been on my mind recently after layoffs and reading about interview struggles so I’m worried about future job security as a PM. Edit: I have dev background so engineering seems like the nat...Read more
i am an aspiring PM .Currently i work as project manager and design project roadmaps.How do i transition to Product role.I keep reading blogs in medium,follow podcats ,an active member of a product slack community but i dont think I know the jargons right or can crack the design interview.I have lo...Read more
Airbnb eliminated (morphed its PM role into Product Marketing). But, I do see this being a danger for the role as a whole. - The onus will come on to Engineers + Designers - PMs will become obsolete if their only function is owning roadmap - Google originally started the modern PM function as an in...Read more
I think a thread like this might be helpful to those of us that want to take advantage of how hot the job market is, without getting lowballed. So if you got a new job recently, please share your TC breakdown. I’ll go first although it’s my current package (got hired early 2021). Will update with t...Read more
Want to move to product management. Have been interviewing for Senior PM Operations at Uber. Do most people from here transfer to PM roles at Uber? 1. What is hierarchy for Operations compared to PM? 2. What are salary levels compared to PMs? #productmanager #product