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Hiring product managers by ratio infantilizes engineers and designers who were perfectly capable of deciding for themselves.

Drawn from what Tom Verrilli said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

product management What a product manager is for, who decides what gets built, and what happens to that job once delivery is cheap.

hiring Finding people and judging them: referrals, open calls, contests, and reading the work rather than the CV.

What is a PM for, now that building is cheap?under our view: A team needs fewer product managers, or none, because the people who build can make the product calls themselves

What Tom Verrilli actually said

  1. Tom Verrilli Chief product officer at the live-shopping marketplace Whatnot
    hiring so many PMs infantilizes the engineers and the designers who are perfectly capable of making good decisions, but just never had to because there was always a PM to babysit them.

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