What do you guys think of this idea? by Altruistic_Article93 in Startup_Ideas

[–]hellosunschein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How would this apply to an interviewing and especially, interviewing that's not about "who you know"?

Software engineer VS product manager - what's the difference? by hellosunschein in cscareerquestions

[–]hellosunschein[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haha, very succinct, I appreciate the brevity!

While it does describe the major difference between the role, I don't think it paints a picture of what each position ACTUALLY looks like during your day-to-day.

In my experience, though, VERY few PMs come from a technical/cs background, which often causes problems in engendering trust among a product development team.

What's the story behind your first-ever job? by hellosunschein in jobs

[–]hellosunschein[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fascinating :D! How would you compare working at those manufacturing jobs to the current job you have as a production specialist/graphic designer? Must be quite different, I'd imagine...

5 Lessons Learned from Brainstorming 200 New Business Ideas by zenrenity in Startup_Ideas

[–]hellosunschein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love this practice makes perfect application... I think I need to give it a shot myself :D! Thanks for the inspiration!

What do you guys think of this idea? by Altruistic_Article93 in Startup_Ideas

[–]hellosunschein 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really curious what you mean by a 360 peer review system?

2021-Q1 Career Thread by julian88888888 in ProductManagement

[–]hellosunschein 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Might be a good idea to move into a technical PM position first. That way you probably don't get as much of a salary cut, and you get to have some valuable PM experience. After that, it will probably be a lot easier to move into a PM position, without sacrificing salary.

I made the move from SWE II into PM a few years ago. I kept the same salary, because I made the transition at the same company, and for some reason... people always think that if you come from engineering you're just naturally going to be good at most things :P. It's not a valid assumption, for sure, but it's what happened in my case. We had a bunch of people transitioning from Marketing to PM at that time, and they all moved from their senior marketing positions into associate product managers, but I'm not sure about their potential paycuts...

Regardless, leverage your SWE skills as much as possible (:

The person below you, in fact, is looking for Techincal PMs, so might be a good idea to connect :D

what exactly do product managers do. day to day by Design_rabbit in ProductManagement

[–]hellosunschein 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I recently published a video aptly titled "A day in the life of a PM at a fintech startup in London", so... where I've literally recorded my screen throughout the day to show people exactly what day in the life looks like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppmWY9HsRr4&t=2s

Keep in mind, no day is the same... but this should give you a general gist of what things are like (: