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Can't code? Don't have any technical skills? Can't do anything besides setting up meetings? But you still want a tech salary? I have the perfect job for you.... Become a PM. Especially at Microsoft, just schedule a few meetings a day and relax. Engineers will figure it all out. You're just here to make insta videos on the life of a PM and talk about frameworks on LinkedIn. The biggest scam in tech industry. I'm sure a few years from now, people will look back and laugh on how so many dimwitted people built careers on this scam of a job.
Olrite, tell me then, how to be a PM
Just apply
Ha, not as simple PM loops have a high bar. Imagine a swe going through a tough loop, but ultimately copy pasting for code maintenance- nonetheless, entry needs a lot of knowledge Pms doing crap job does not mean PM are crap. Itās just that jobs themselves are crap, after interviews
Your PMs don't talk to customers, write release announcements, tell the devs what metrics to record, make decisions based on metrics and, last but not least, give devs shoutouts for releases? Idk, not all PMs do all that but it mostly sounds like you just have some garbage PMs. To be fair though, PMs don't have to stay up when there's an overnight incident so... there's that.
Anyone can become a PM. But becoming a really good PM who is extremely well-organized, understand technical challenges, can anticipate risks is really hard. Those are the PMs most ppl respect but they are rare.
I wish I could become a PM. Seriously. Swe feels like a waste job to me. I feel I have no skills even after slogging 20 years as swe.. Then why slog so much, why not live life as a PM.
Google, YouTube, Slack. They have one thing in common. Their CEO used to be a PM. Guess you will be PM's little b**** forever, sadly
So are you in the path of eliminating PM function altogether? Who will do the PowerPoint, excel, meeting etc? Developer/SWE? SWE canāt do everything like coding, testing, IM, 24*7 etc. so live and let PM liveš
i would become a pm but i hate talking with ppl and being nice
This actually the bar for SDM at Amazon.
Become a PM? That takes some effort. Just get your frat boy to hook you up with a Roblox Manager job instead. You get all the joy of not producing anything, but you get to hire your friends to leech off the work of engineers done 8 years ago. PMs may eventually require you to release something. Why worry about that when you work on a game platform that has no chance of improvement?
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