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Several of the PMs and UX people at the digital services agency where I work have compsci degrees or some experience as developers. Transitioning into develop
by fatbird 6y ago
Several of the PMs and UX people at the digital services agency where I work have compsci degrees or some experience as developers. Transitioning into developer-adjacent roles is a kind of graceful exit from development where your experience is viewed as a positive. A PM who actually understands development and developers is much more effective than one who doesn't. A UX architect who knows what's possible, what's easy, and what's hard has a big advantage too. Overall, you mesh better with the development team on a project than someone without your experience.
On my side, I like working with these people because I can communicate much more easily with them on technical issues.
As a bonus, you would be entry level, but it's not a weird issue to be experienced and entry level moving to a different field, and another bonus you have is that, having 10 years of practical employment experience means someone looking at hiring you can reasonably assume you've already learned to be a good employee and won't need to be handheld through basics like "don't be late" and "communicate appropriately in a work environment".