Looking to grow as a PM in 2022
Dec 29, 2021
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I had a really fantastic year at AWS. Joined as an L6 PMT-ES. Wrote 2 PRFAQs from scratch and launched 2 big products (launched at re:Invent) and a few iterative features as well.
I am now feeling that I won’t be able to grow more next year. Too early for promo to L7. This makes me want to look for roles outside and explore a different product path. Does anyone have recommendations or want to chat?
Blind tax - $320K
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2) make noise
If you can’t do #1 or if #2 is ineffective then find a place where you can do both.
Make Noise= Tell people what you’re going to do and why. Repeat it frequently over the course of doing it. Tell everyone (in metrics) what it did for the top/ bottom line when done.
Launching is not even 10% hard as building a business out of your product.
Amazon also didn’t give me a bump with l7 promo claiming I was already bottom of band since my stock increased.
Already got a small raise at G, just some of the differences
Amazon PMs do get overleveled coming out of b school and it's well known. But they're still paid peanuts 🥜
Both of these are true.
And wtf I don't understand all the emotion in this thread lol