Andrew Ng says Product Managers to Engineer ratio is shrinking from 1:4 to 1:0.5

4 pointsposted 15 hours ago
by laiysb

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laiysb

15 hours ago

In his recent talk Andre Ng said the following:

> I don't see product management work becoming faster at the same speed as engineering. I'm seeing this ratio shift.

> Just yesterday, one of my teams came to me, and for the first time, when we're planning headcount for a project, this team proposed to me not to have 1:4 PM/engineers, but to have 1:0.5 PM/engineers.

> I still don't know if this is a good idea, but for the first time in my life, managers are proposing having twice as many PMs as engineers.

> I think it's a sign of where the world is going

are you seeing the trend going in this direction?

techpineapple

13 hours ago

Listened to the quote on the video, this is very "Some people are saying" that is common in political punditry. I think I hoped that Andrew Ng was more serious than the average AI "Thought Leader" these days, but apparently not.