Being the "product guy" is a shitload of work. I know, that's the role I serve in the company that I founded. Customer interaction, roadmaps, design, prioritization of features, plans for growth -- it's hard and it's a lot of work.
It's so much work that I don't even have time to code any more, because it's so much more than 1 job.
Seems like developers just like to hate on anyone who's not a developer because the developers can't see the work they don't have to do.
Whether or not many Product Managers in bigcos are full of shit doesn't say anything about the profession whatsoever. What it says is that most people are incompetent at their jobs, and lazy. Which is also true of most developers.
It's sad for me to see HN continuing to leap to confirm its own biases instead of questioning them.
It's so much work that I don't even have time to code any more, because it's so much more than 1 job.
Seems like developers just like to hate on anyone who's not a developer because the developers can't see the work they don't have to do.
Whether or not many Product Managers in bigcos are full of shit doesn't say anything about the profession whatsoever. What it says is that most people are incompetent at their jobs, and lazy. Which is also true of most developers.
It's sad for me to see HN continuing to leap to confirm its own biases instead of questioning them.