At what level in consulting would you have accumulated enough experience to work as a product manager etc at FAANG?

Are Product managers like partner equivalent while project managers are like EMs? Or are these too senior?

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I would say those are way to senior. From my understanding “head of __” would be equivalent to partner.

I would say roughly around 5+ YOE would be enough for Product M but now I’m seeing all kinds of newly grads doing rotational and becoming PMs within 2 years so idk lol

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Product manager and program manager are different things. Product is fairly technical, especially at Google

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Partners are like executive level in industry

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Product managers have levels across the board, goes from 4-senior management.

There’s no magic formula, but PMs are very technical in most cases and are going to require you to have sufficient depth. There are PMs that are mainly growth and use case focused but at google they’re all relatively deep technically.

That said, M/SM is where I see most external hires coming from

I see very few consultants come over as a PM and succeed, most succeed as a program manager and grow into product. The youngest I’ve seen come over is SC level (post-MBA), but majority are M+. For AWS, if you want to be a technical product manager, or interact with anything truly revenue generating, you won’t have a shot unless you’ve worked in implementation or development at some point in your career

Very different skill sets. Get as much exposure working with engineering and design teams. Build products and ship them.

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