Product Thinking - by Ryan Peterman - The Developing Dev
👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering and career growth. Thank you for your readership, we hit 66,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 This week, I’m sharing details on how product thinking can help you have more impact. If you find the post helpful, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! When I joined Meta 6 years ago, I enjoyed the unusual onboarding process. Most new hires joined “Bootcamp” which was a time when you aren’t assigned to a team yet. This let me learn and explore teams at a relaxed pace. One of the big decisions you make in Bootcamp is if you want to join a product or infrastructure team. My most technical friends picked infrastructure teams since the work seemed more challenging. The byproduct of that thinking was that those strong engineers shunned product work. After working on infrastructure teams for the last 7 years, I’ve realized this thinking is limiting. Infrastructure ultimately contributes to building bett
👋 Hi, this is Ryan with this week’s newsletter. I write about software engineering and career growth. Thank you for your readership, we hit 66,000 readers this week 🙏 🎉 This week, I’m sharing details on how product thinking can help you have more impact. If you find the post helpful, please share it with your friends and coworkers. Enjoy! When I joined Meta 6 years ago, I enjoyed the unusual onboarding process. Most new hires joined “Bootcamp” which was a time when you aren’t assigned to a team yet. This let me learn and explore teams at a relaxed pace. One of the big decisions you…
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