johnmc408

In this market, switching industries can be difficult. If the goal is to switch industries, get in at a (slightly) lower position and work up.

Otherwise, try to stay in the same industry and go for a company that isn't as well known and where your experience would be especially helpful.

What are those "other roles"? How much of product marketing vs product management vs project management vs people management do you currently do? For the "other role" what is the same vs different to what you currently do (not what your job title is, but what you do)?

I feel you will get the best insight if you take a look at the differences between your current day to day tasks and the tasks for the "other roles".

I also think that interviewing for a leadership PM position is much more difficult...

Most content today does come from a CDN. Some content owners and some CDNs (in some locations), will host servers in the local cable company regional centers. Usually google does this. Netflix provides software, to cache its movies, but the local cable company has to install and pay for the HW...Google probably pays for search and maps to be hosted though.

You really need to do a comparison. Maybe after dinner and after midnight run a comparison between your cable connection and your wireless phone connection. Pick a movie and test both. As WFM mentioned, if you can run a traceroute, you can see how your home connection gets to the CDN. In some cases it might terminate at Time Warner, but probably most cases it terminates at the CDN or the content owners origin(Apple for example).

I kinda expect that the after dinner test will suck and the after midnight ones will be much better. You would still need to narrow it down from the cable connection vs the origin (content) server. One way to do that is to compare a video on netflix vs instagram vs youtube. You are looking for throughput and errors/buffers.

You could also check this: https://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/ https://www.battleforthenet.com/internethealthtest/

I would say complain to the FCC, but...

Do #1 ASAP. Don't wait, start now. Once you have a job, get back into coding (if you want) and investigate consulting in your off hours (if you want).

Yes, there are a few things that you can do to help though. When I did this, I volunteered to be part of acquisition teams to work on PM-like activities and I also volunteered to take on some PM tasks from the PM team.

Assuming you are in ENG today, can you take on some work from the PM team? The easiest way is to do this is in your own organization.

You can take the pragmatic marketing certificate, but it is kinda expensive. I would also read all of the free info on the web.

Good luck!

I just gave a presentation at a local show, here is what helped me:

1) Finish the presentation long before your talk

2) Practice the presentation out loud and make final tweaks to the slides

3) Want to add something "funny"? Yep, plan it out

4) Once locked down, practice the presentation once a day (7 times?)

5) On the day of the presentation, don't review the slides

6) Show up early and stand on the stage and watch people enter

7) You are ready. Start on time.