Hey everyone. I could really use some help. I'm currently a software engineer. I want to transfer to being a PM. I just found a PM position under marketing on Apple career website. Is it different from standard PM? And do you know what's Apple's PM interview process? Is it also standard with product design, analytical, execution etc.? Thank you all so much!! #pm #product #productmanager #apple
Have you compared the TC numbers of PM vs SDEs? There are PMs with 10+ YOE earning half of what SDEs with similar or in cases fewer YOE earn. At some point that starts hurting you for making that switch. Speaking from experience, after paying for an expensive MBA to move from being a code monkey to an underpaid doc/excel monkey. And wondering why.....
yeah, that's what I've been thinking, but I don't know enough to know the exact difference. I'm surrounded by only engineers... Are you a PM now?
Yes I've been a PM for a while. You could follow other posts on the PM board here on Blind, and levels.FYI also has good data. That should give you an idea of the compensation benchmark between SDE and PM job families.
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Marketing PM is not technically driven. You will write product copy. Etc. PM interview process differs from team to team, manager to manager. If you hm is from Amazon, you will get amazon style questions. Same with google, fb etc.
Ahhh i see, my understanding is Marketing PM doesn't work on defining the product, but more on marketing the product out. Is this correct? Thank you!!
They do define the product. Other companies, PMs are more technical. At apple, product marketing dictates what they want to build. But in many cases, there is no PM for most products. It’s mostly engineering themselves or directly with design.