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on 11/24/10 at 3:50am
From fathippo's thread I've become more curious about prod mgmt. I did a search and not much came up. I was wondering if you guys had more information on product management roles in general. Do you have to have a technical background to get one? I saw Google required engineering degrees but other companies like RIMM (iirc) do not. Also, how competitive are those positions? Prod mgmt seems to have a nice lifestyle/pay//work balance. Any other info on prod mgmt would be great!





Bump.....I've been very
Bump.....I've been very interested in this as well. From what I've read, it also seems like the actual work in product management is much more creative and enjoyable
I currently work in PM for
I currently work in PM for Macys. The lifestyle is great and the salaries match...we are a $26B company!
elaborate!!
elaborate!!
^I'm curious, for product
^I'm curious, for product management do people basically just look at engineers, or can people with finance/marketing backgrounds get in and do pretty well too? It seems like tech firms love engineers understandably, but what about others?
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You can get into product
You can get into product management from a wide variety of backgrounds...
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i, too, am interested
i, too, am interested
anyone here have
anyone here have salary/progression/lifestyle background in product management for f500 companies?