Feeling unmotivated lately. I got into product management to build things that matter, but my company has started to treat us like a feature factory. No time for research, no thought to strategy, just pumping out whatever they think will look good in the next investor update. Is anyone else feeling like their PM work has lost meaning?

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This is VERY common in tech, especially with publicly traded companies. It’s unfortunate, but the execs are often heavily compensated with stock instead of salary, so they are incentivized to pull the levers to try and “create” shareholder value aka pump the stock. But most shareholders see right through it…

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Add the fact that when you start leaning hard into being a feature factory thats a sign of product disease taking over. This is a lagging indicator that the product is hurting.

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I've never worked in a place that isn't a feature factory. Non-technical, delivery-focussed sociopath managers are normally the reason for this.

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If you can stomach it, startups can be great because with limited capital and time, it's important to be thoughtful about what to build. You just have to separate the ones that are letting just one or two main customers drive the entire roadmap and have a dead end product

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