While I agree with some of your points, this comment is actually doing the thing you're criticising, just in the other direction. You're claiming that your work is complex and unknowable to outsiders (SWEs in this case).
As a SWE-turned-product-manager, you're in an ideal place to teach SWEs about:
- how to present to the business the risk of the kinds of complexity they deal with
- the human realities of working on a team with other people
- why the salesperson turned CEO just doesn't get them, man
_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity.
As a SWE-turned-product-manager, you're in an ideal place to teach SWEs about:
- how to present to the business the risk of the kinds of complexity they deal with
- the human realities of working on a team with other people
- why the salesperson turned CEO just doesn't get them, man
_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity.