People come to the product profession from a huge variety of paths. Sure, lots come from engineering, but I know former marketers, UX people, account execs, customer service people, and sales engineers. I find varied backgrounds can make product people particularly good at empathizing with stakeholders because they’ve done some of these other jobs themselves.
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