“Break the Ceiling” with Fidji Simo | by Xiaoyin Qu | Medium

Fidji Simo is the Vice President of video at Facebook, who is responsible for virtually everything Facebook’s over 2 billion users see when they open the big blue app, from video to advertising. She has a very accomplished product career and an amazing story: During the fireside chat, Fidji did a Q&A with MBA students and here are the key highlights from the event: Initially I started to volunteer a lot of product management work and eventually half of my work were PM job Q: “You became a PM from a non-technical role. Was it hard to transition to PM? How did you earn respect from engineers?” Fidji: I did product marketing when I first joined Facebook. Initially I started to volunteer a lot of product management work to help where needed and eventually half of my work was a PM job. So the PM manager at the time told me, you should interview to be a PM and that’s how I did it. Coming from a non-technical background, I learned some very basic coding myself so that I could better communica

Fidji Simo is the Vice President of video at Facebook, who is responsible for virtually everything Facebook’s over 2 billion users see when they open the big blue app, from video to advertising. She has a very accomplished product career and an amazing story: During the fireside chat, Fidji did a Q&A with MBA students and here are the key highlights from the event: Initially I started to volunteer a lot of product management work and eventually half of my work were PM job Q: “You became a PM from a non-technical role. Was it hard to transition to PM? How did you earn respect from engineers?” F