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How was your detour into product? What kind of skills/instincts you developed being in product? I always imagined it being kind of freeing -- leaving behind eng
by bcbb7 5mo ago
How was your detour into product? What kind of skills/instincts you developed being in product? I always imagined it being kind of freeing -- leaving behind engineering implementation details and thinking more in terms of the final results.
- mbgerring 5mo agoA lot more of my time was spent fighting to keep the resources I needed to execute my roadmap than I liked. I spent waaaaay too much time explaining why my product area, which covered business critical data and internal processes, was worth funding to an audience that didn’t understand what I did, and by extension, did not really understand their own business. When it’s ideation from customer interviews with a designer and an engineering manager, it’s fantastic. I like solving problems and I don’t really care about the specific technical approach, so that’s where I want to be. However I will happily write the code (or review it, or just wrote specs or whatever it is we do now since December 2025) if there’s no one else around to do it.