Ep.8 Sid Unnithan: on changing jobs at Microsoft, preparing for informational interviews, imposter syndrome and autonomy in the PM role

Table of Contents

• How the Customer Driven Playbook influenced how Sid thinks about PM (14:34)
• How Sid prepared for his informational interview with our team (15:49)
• The importance of preparing for your informational interview (17:23)
• How we structure our PM interviews in DevDiv (19:40)
• Imposter syndrome and what we can do about it (24:05)
• On rubrics and career progression (28:54)
• Side-hustle entrepreneurial thinking while working at a big company (34:20)
• Learning about customers via jobs-to-be-done and customer interviews (41:52)
• The lack of respect that PMs face when working with some engineering teams (46:24)
• On the importance of autonomy and agency in the PM role (55:52)
• Building products is a team sport (57:00)
• Travel bidets, cultural barriers and friction in experiences (1:00:36)

Transcript

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Links

• The Customer Driven Playbook
• The Jobs-To-Be-Done framework
• The Hypothesis Progression Framework for Customer Development

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