Honestly, the biggest mistake IMHO was hiring non technical product managers and putting them in charge of technical teams. They’re almost always annoying af, useless, and tbh “people skills” only go so far because it’s mostly a systems problem that communication falls apart.
Having worked at successful tech companies (that IPO’d), I have never met a non-technical product manager who was any good or worth remembering.
The best thing happening in tech right now IMO are the layoffs affecting PMs and other "manager" types. We all know they add very low value because their actual role is "scapegoat" when their projects fail (mostly due to them in the first place). It is also why they were almost always the only ones fired prior to AI revolution.
Honestly, the biggest mistake IMHO was hiring non technical product managers and putting them in charge of technical teams. They’re almost always annoying af, useless, and tbh “people skills” only go so far because it’s mostly a systems problem that communication falls apart.
Having worked at successful tech companies (that IPO’d), I have never met a non-technical product manager who was any good or worth remembering.
The best thing happening in tech right now IMO are the layoffs affecting PMs and other "manager" types. We all know they add very low value because their actual role is "scapegoat" when their projects fail (mostly due to them in the first place). It is also why they were almost always the only ones fired prior to AI revolution.