PMs at Microsoft by definition do not build anything. Nor do they really "design" anything. You can't design a piece of software unless you're an engineer. At b

PMs at Microsoft by definition do not build anything. Nor do they really "design" anything. You can't design a piece of software unless you're an engineer. At best, they will give you some user scenarios to handle, and half of those will be complete bullshit that customers don't actually need and never actually asked for (this, my friends, is how you got Metro UX in Windows; for the record, I like it _as a phone UI_). If you want to build and design stuff, you need to be an engineer, not a bureaucrat. That's what engineers do. Here's what a typical PM does at Microsoft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV7u1VBhWCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV7u1VBhWCE