Would you advise non-technical PM’s joining a coding bootcamp?

I’m currently looking for new opportunities and I find that when it comes to the final stages of the recruiting process, PMs with more technical skills get the role.

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Liron Deutsch

Product Management Leader • 1mo

TLDR: Probably not. The gap most non-technical PMs need to close is not about writing code. It is about understanding how systems work, and that is a different thing entirely. I came from a computer science background with a few years in software engineering, and honestly, I could not code from scratch today at a high quality (unless I use AI ;)). But that has never once held me back as a PM. In my experience, workplaces do not expect PMs to code. What they do expect is that you can have a credi ...Read More

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JJ Miclat

Zendesk Director of Product Management • 1y

As a PM, you should know the architecture of your product's tech-stack, so that you could have meaningful conversations with your engineers about tradeoffs, capabilities, limitations, and estimates.

You don't necessarily need to know how to code, unless your product is code (ie PM for Swift at Apple).

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