That last quote hurt me so much.
If that’s my job, why do I have no influence on the product?
What’s the point of product managers?
If that’s my job, why do I have no influence on the product?
What’s the point of product managers?
Can you get me a job where you work?
Everywhere I’ve worked in the past 10 years as a developer, I’ve had 0 ability to do whatever the fuck I want.
I guess it's a cultural thing. Our CEO and CTO still commit code every other week (occasionally driving us mad), it's still a very bottom-up org despite having thousands of people now.
"Coding is just kind of like the language that we talk to computers. It's not necessarily the skill in and of itself"
they’re talking at the devs, but really talking to the market, since their job is partially to pump their own stock price.
You can’t believe public CEO statements.
Many of us have been asking this for years. Including those of us who have been product managers.