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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by sokoloff on Monday October 15, 2018 @02:25PM (#18222242)
What is the typical overall experience of a product manager in their first year vs the overall experience of a software engineer in their first year?

No one is getting a product manager title at 21 right out of college. Lots of people are getting SWE titles at 21 right out of college.

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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by hyperrail on Monday October 15, 2018 @04:30PM (#18223405)
Microsoft hires program managers (what other tech firms call product managers) straight out of college. Almost all of the PM-I employees I met at Microsoft were college hires with CS degrees who had taken few or no business or marketing classes.
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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by tristor on Monday October 15, 2018 @06:02PM (#18224251)
That's a fair point. I make less as a PM than I did when I was an Engineer, but I had 13 years of engineering experience before I transitioned. All of the new PMs I've worked with have a minimum of 5 years of experience in some other related role and most have a related degree.
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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by killerdhmo on Monday October 15, 2018 @05:37PM (#18224030)
I was a PM straight out of college and know many PMs straight out college. Both at the big companies like Google and smaller companies.
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