How to become a product engineer?
Based on the “Product Engineer 101” course taught by mas Gogo, there are some tips to become a product engineer.
A. Communication
- Do not hide behind your manager
- Ask feedback from anyone (product engineers, C levels, clients, 3rd parties, etc)
- Write more (twitter, blog, reports). Learn storytelling
B. Product Sense
- Look and understand business, product, and engineering metrics of your team.
- Start hypothesizing/proposing about project/product ideas.
- Engage in user research and customer support.
- Use the product!
- Learn SQL, cohort analysis, metabase, and mixpanel/amplitude. Do business and product metrics queries yourself.
C. Pragmatism
Offer product-engineering tradeoffs. Give options/solutions for any problems as many as possible.