I’ve been an engineer for my entire career (10 years), and I’m curious about what a move to product management would be like. I would love to hear experiences from those who have spent the bulk of their time in one role and then moved to a product management role. Did you enjoy the move or do you miss your old position?

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I’ve been a TSE for 15 years and am targeting PM positions. Unfortunately internal moves at my company are impossible. If you have any success I’d love the feedback.

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I was in operations for 20 years before I moved to product management. I wanted to use my tech experience but I was tired of being oncall. I was a tech evangelist and now that's part of my job. There's a lot of writing, which I also love. Do I miss the old job? Sometimes; there's nothing like that feeling when you find a solution to a really difficult problem. With product management you have some aha! moments, like how to frame an issue or a really amazing use case, but its not the same.

I wouldn't go back, but I also feel like all that experience prepared me well for product management.

I was a technical writer documenting APIs for a dozen years or do before I got into PMing them and other more technical products and features.

Its great. Nothing you've done in the past will go to waste. I'd expect you'd probably be a more technical PM and a real asset to your team because most PMs, in my experience, aren't that technical. The other things you'd want to make sure you have under your belt and can demonstrate (a portfolio can help) are management/soft skills and a basic understanding of business.

from what i’ve heard it’s not super common, but i had considered it myself before when i felt i was doing more product management than my company’s overly lean PM anyway. i think the con is that PMs get a lot of the blame when stuff goes wrong (or just slowly), so it’s a tough job if you don’t enjoy office politics.

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