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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

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

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

management Running the place: an executive's calendar, dissent, severance, and what a manager is actually for.

A private bookmark. Not a position, and never counted.

What Tom Verrilli actually said

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  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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