Are product managers respected in tech? Or are they seen as second class citizens to the engineers? If the latter, why do people sign up to be at a company where many people won’t respect their contributions?

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Depends on the company - google and FB are heavily engineering driven. Amazon is heavily PM driven. Microsoft can be a mix. If it’s a company that uses tech to build a business (aka Amazon) , PMs are equally respected. If vica versa , they are shepards. Most SWEs I work with think that PM is something they can easily get (true) , they will get more money in SWE instead of PM (somewhat true) , PMs are glorified program managers who don’t understand / can’t comprehend technology (somewhat true) , they will be great PMs because they are SWEs (not so true) , SWE track is better to get to CSuite than PM (not so true either) . Hope this helps !

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