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Love that "senior" PMs need to have exactly zero years experience as PM to be a senior PM.
by Lionga 2y ago
Love that "senior" PMs need to have exactly zero years experience as PM to be a senior PM.
- codingdave 2y agoI had the same thought, but if it is a 1000 person company, that is large enough that the seniority level of their title is just as likely to be based on the compensation band of their HR structure as much as having any relevance to their actual skills.
- mewpmewp2 2y agoDepends how rest of his career experience has been. He was an engineer and he has been a founder. If the product is technical it very well makes sense for me that he is well beyond junior or mid level depending on overall experience.
- louthy 2y agoFounder is ‘PM on steroids’
- dandellion 2y agoNot if the "founder" experience as a founder was micromanaging a startup of 10 people. I had a PM like that once and he was one of the worse PMs I've had.
- bsaul 2y agocurious to know more : what about him / her made it that bad ?
- dandellion 2y agoI personally disliked being micromanaged. But even trying to leave personal feeling aside, I don't think he knew the team or the product well enough to micromanage the work effectively. It just made everybody more frustrated with him and work. Well, maybe not everybody, but the others on the team that I talked with. As far as I know after only 9 months 75% of the team had been fired or left.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y agoFounder implies wearing a lot of different hats all at once but also the power to make choices, including defining bureaucracy and processes. Senior PM implies a much more limited silo of skills but also limited powers and a need to be able to fit in with existing bureaucracy and processes.