> Do not mistake software engineers and product people. These are very different things. Sometimes these things are done by the same person if the org has not e

> Do not mistake software engineers and product people. These are very different things. Sometimes these things are done by the same person if the org has not enough money. I worked for one of the largest, richest tech companies in the world, and (at least in our org) they did not have a dedicated product owner role. They expected this skill from the senior/lead engineers on the teams. Any coder can churn out code and you can call them senior after a few years. But if you want to be considered actually senior, you need to know how to make a product, not just code. IMO if you are a developer and all you know how to do is turn a fully-formed spec/requirements doc into software, and push back on anything that is not fully-formed, you're never going to truly reach "Senior" level, wherever you are.