> I’m curious about which type of products you have been working on and what type of product decisions the engineers you have been working with have done. IME:

> I’m curious about which type of products you have been working on and what type of product decisions the engineers you have been working with have done. IME: technically-trained PMs are worth their weight in gold. PMs without a technical background are extremely dangerous liabilities. Context: Mostly b2b products where careful judgement on technical feasibility is the difference between "useless" and "game-changer". > Engineers who understand anything to business and product management are extremely rare. And people who are good at it and genuinely interested in it usually move to this role It depends. Only if they don't take a huge paycut by moving into the PM role, and only if the org is willing to let them move into the PM role. Many business are not willing to lose highly productive engineers with niche skillsets and are not willing to pay PMs as much as they pay their senior engineers. IME, senior engineer -> executive/founder is a lot more common than senior engineer -> PM. But it's not because engineers can't be product people... sorta the opposite. > a lot of PMs are actually just projects managers instead of being product managers. No true Scotsman, right?