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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by NearAP on Monday October 15, 2018 @03:35PM (#18222938)
1) Straight from Business Schools - Folks who go into technology tend to become PMs after their MBAs

2) Internal transfers - Software Engineers switch to PM

3) Management/Technology Consultant -> PM: Folks switch from consulting (where they are implementing products designed by vendors) to becoming PMs in the vendor companies.

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Re:The highest paid workers in Silicon Valley are product ma... by doublescoop on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:28PM (#18232409)
The internal transfers is much broader than just SWE to PM, as well. UX designers, technical writers, QA testers, etc. Anyone working on a dev team might start picking up PM responsibilities and make that transition at some point.
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