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SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Amazon

Underrated skills to have for Product Management

What is the most underrated skill to be a great product manager?

Mine has always been the ability to make friends with people at the office. SWEs, other PMs etc

28mo ago
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
Round 1 by Grapevine
ZestyDonut
ZestyDonut
Stealth28mo

Having sense of humour

SleepyNugget
SleepyNugget
Amazon28mo

Absolutely helps you make friends :) specially the ability to laugh at your own self

QuirkyPotato
QuirkyPotato
Freshworks28mo

Soft skills (Leading by influence). You need to understand when and how to influence members in other verticals and how to get them to trust you for the skillet that you bring.. Push too soon and they will feel that you are just stamping your authority Push too late and you end up not doing the right things for the product

PrancingPotato
PrancingPotato
Stealth28mo

Asking silly questions like a 5 year old when new in a product

ZoomyMuffin
ZoomyMuffin
Amazon28mo

be good at program management

GoofyBurrito
GoofyBurrito
Smallcase28mo

Many new PMs think that their main job is to escalate when they are blocked on something. Shouting fire, fire, fire instead of trying to put out the fire is an instant formula for all the engineers to hate you. :)

DizzyCupcake
DizzyCupcake
Swiggy28mo

Ability to escalate by the right amount and at right time

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by PeppyPickleProduct Manager

I am done with this product management shit

Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disresp...