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Switching from product management to engineering | Benjamin Yolken

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I began my career as a product manager (PM) but then switched tracks and became a software engineer (SWE) three and a half years later. In this post, I want to describe how I started as a PM, why I made the decision to switch, and how it worked out.

I began my career as a product manager (PM) , but then switched tracks and became a software engineer (SWE) three and a half years later. While many people start in engineering and then later go into product management, the direction that I took is pretty rare and something that people often ask me about when looking at my background. In this post, I want to describe how I started as a PM, why I made the decision to switch, and how it worked out. At the start I come from a fairly non-traditional, academic background- I did Electrical Engineering (with some CS) in undergrad, and then spent four

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