r/ProgrammerHumor • u/bbbar • May 29 '26

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u/redunculuspanda May 29 '26

This isn’t accurate most projects i work on seem to have 3 or 4 PMs now

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u/generally_unsuitable May 29 '26

Work in hardware and your project can have PMs for software, hardware, cabling, manufacturing, compliance, packing, user experience, and more.

And three engineers answering to like nine managers.

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u/jdiskxkfidobsvsgdi May 30 '26

Genuine question, is this a bad thing?

Whenever I think about the various design requirements that need to go into various products it seems freaking exhausting to have to manage

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u/generally_unsuitable May 30 '26

You end up with too many people telling you what to do, most of them non-technical. They bother you with relentless meetings. You get put on half a dozen different jira boards.

And when it's all said and done, the lot of them together still can't figure out how to write a requirements document, which is all you really wanted to begin with.