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Being a CS major is fine, but being an engineer does kind of suck. My sister went from junior engineer to product manager and is much happier. I'm currently on
by dvt 9y ago
Being a CS major is fine, but being an engineer does kind of suck. My sister went from junior engineer to product manager and is much happier. I'm currently on a sort of sabbatical and working on a few personal startup-ish projects, but when I get back in the workforce (probably a few months unless one of my projects really takes off), I'll try to do something similar.
- aphextron 9y agoTo each his own I guess. I find being an engineer to be far less stress than I imagine product managers are under. As a engineer I can just "not care" about whatever random business case is being handled and focus on writing code and honing my skills. Having to care about $company_name's business problems sounds soul draining to say the least.
- dvt 9y agoHaving creative control is, to me, very important. I'd much rather solve a problem from start to finish than implement a solution I believe is completely flawed.
- enraged_camel 9y agoYou need to understand the problems your product is supposed to solve. That holds true whether you are an engineer or a product manager.
- bradknowles 9y agoIMO, if you’re not caring about the business problems your company is facing, then you are going to be ill-suited to help solve them. In that case, you should probably go work somewhere else where you can care about the problems being faced by the business. All IMO, of course.