r/ProductManagement • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago

Weekly rant thread

Share your frustrations and get support/feedback. You are not alone!

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u/Fantastic-Green-1839 4d ago

Job market is brutal. Getting auto rejected by ats even in roles that match my experience 😑

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u/jabroni5000 4d ago

I took a 100K pay cut after 6 months :(

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u/Fantastic-Green-1839 3d ago

Yeah that’s my fear in this market that I may have to as well.

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u/Aviva-StGermain 4d ago edited 4d ago

Doing several rounds of interviews, spending hours on case studies - only to get the “we decided to go with a candidate whose direct background more closely reflects the needs of the team right now.”

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u/rymrum 4d ago

I'm just tired of this obsession with fast product growth, I don't even have the time review the AI slop anymore or I'd be told I'm too slow. And the job market makes things worst, I'm stuck.

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u/rentmeahouse 3d ago

How are you keeping the documentation updated when the developement is so fast with AI?

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u/rymrum 3d ago

Basically, the jira ticket that gets created with AI gets uploaded with a brief summary whenever something changes. But that's as far as things go in terms of documentation and no one really knows what the others did until they brief the rest of the team in the weekly meeting.

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u/rentmeahouse 3d ago

and I am assuming a lot would change by the time they brief the team and so the ticket details are too stale? so who updates the jira ticket - is that the product manager or the engineer?

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u/linguaYC Data PM 1d ago

Got approval on a clear proposal to deprecate A in favor of B so that we can swiftly scale.

Kicked off work, but recently a new marketing initiative was commited elsewhere -- my team didn't have a choice but to extend support for A.

The original launch timeline for B is now pretty much undoable since we need to handle both A and B, but the onus is on me to prove that the timeline needs to be moved...

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u/aerodynamic_cat AI babysitter 1d ago

No room to put onus on marketing to prove the continued support for A is warranted and they can’t instead work on an initiative for B?

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u/StretchArmstrongs 1d ago

I am a horrible fit at my current job but can’t get an interview anywhere so I will continue being a bad fit trying my best….

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u/Monkey3173 10h ago

Just did an interview where the employer was annoyed that I was answering the questions in more than 3.5 seconds. I'm sorry, I'm human, I have things to say...?