i was originally a SWE then eventually became a product manager. However, now that ive started, ive literally zero idea on what im supposed to be doing within an 8 hour day tbh. I write epics (i do them towards PI planning) i write user stories (give the perspective and the needs from the product) go through the features that the development team did and make sure that its fullfilling the criteria do mockups of what we need via figma talk about prioritization on what we need to be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd etc . create UAT's to ensure that our customers are truly understanding the product etc. if something goes wrong, relay it to the development team and basically act as a communicator between the person complaining about the product and the development team. however, thats all im doing. It seems really straightforward and i dont understand how im making so much money. what am i doing wrong ? do i just have a crappy product ? the product is almost complete so maybe thats why (i started pretty recently) ? is this really it? is this just how C1 operates ? how is PM so sought out for (it seems relatively boring). Tc: 170k
The tech industry summarized in this decade https://youtu.be/xbBD7VIJ4cc
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Updated. Its probably not much to everyone here. But i just started my career.
I mean depends on YOE and location, could be a lot or little. Took me many years to break that.
I fell for the glamour title of PM role thinking it would be a combination of strategy and driving engineering towards business outcomes. Switched from a thriving SWE to PM, now realised PM role is a very dumb one. You are just there to fill in the organisational deficiencies between teams that cannot talk to each other. You have 0 control on speed at which things executed. But you get the full blame for unable to deliver projects on time. Its really a role meant for dumb people, i switched back to SWE role again
Cookie cutting in the big machinery. Imagine how much the VPs make just to make sure you do your little job