Interview with Product Manager in 2024 [Corporate]

Product Manager [Corporate]

Interview with a Product Manager with Josh Doe - aired on © The Product Manager.

Programmer humor
Product Owner
Corporate Humor
Salesforce
Jira
Atlassian
Agile humor
Agile jokes
Agile memes
Agile memes
Scrum jokes
kanban
agile manifesto
planning poker
waterfall
software development

#software #agile #corporatehumor

[Hobbitstomper]

I worked for Blizzard back in 2007 in support for 6 months (GameMaster for WoW). None of our managers ever played WoW nor were they familiar with video games at all. One of the managers was even outspoken against video games. He often said he will never let his children play video games because it robs them their creativity and that instead he'd rather play 20 hours of Dungeons & Dragons than 2 minutes of WoW.
I witnessed the same behavior in other big tech and gaming companies throughout my career. It was quite an eye opening experience to witness that many employees within big companies who are not technical and work in a management position, often don't use or care about their own products.

[impossibur]

"I have never used our product"

accurate

[sv]

"politics over progress, processes over logic, emotions over process" - the base. the essence of any enterprise.

[snocoldman]

“I’m not saying they know what they’re doing, I’m just saying I really don’t care.”

Honestly, based.

[KnightMirkoYo]

"We have a tool to consolidate our documents... my downloads folder"

So accurate

[soccermaniac]

The constant "I don't have access." "Make sure you get access." Is too fucking real. I have been waiting over 2 months to gain access to a Microsoft dashboard to do a part of my job. Damn agile environment

[practical-dreamer]

I’m surprised this video upload made it past corporate security.

[rokker]

I swear, this YT channel is Dilbert for a modern world. Insanely accurate. I don't get a salary, I get pain compensation.

[datadrivendev]

"I get paid to remind the engineers of that" epic

[PrivacyRevocation]

"we did not meet our OKRs this quarter, we need to change our OKRs". Just came out of a company where this was actually the case.

[sstranger]

The first sentence "I identify problems in the project early .. and silence them." Gold!

[adamfrank]

"I'm gonna issue a Jira ticket, but I'll send it by email... so you will forget."
God damn you, product manager.

[jpbastyr]

scarily accurate

"nobody has a clue what we're doing"

[sean]

The fact that I didn't realize it was a joke initially when he said, "I don't have any new ideas that's a different department", because I've worked in several businesses where that is quite literally the case made me sit back and stare at the ceiling for a bit.

[zenitsuagatsuma]

"I barely know the names of most of the people on our team"
accurate

[NorthernRealmJackal]

"We define the requirements at the beginning of the project. Changes come in through change-requests. We do have the agile manifesto hanging on the wall, so to me it sounds like agile."

Imma hang _that_ on the wall, right under the agile manifesto.

[nocturne]

Not the fucking Teams "incoming call" sound 😭

[MrAntraxico]

I remember on my first job talking to a manager about Agile. I complained about how nobody was implementing it correctly and that everything was cascade with a mask of Agile. He just looked at me quizzically and said "what do you mean? We have been doing Agile this whole time. We divide our problems into 2 week sprints!" I just sipped my coffee and forgot why I was even complaining.

[JohnVance]

"One must not be predictable" this destroyed me it's so accurate

[brokula]

Remember kids, the less you work, the more you'll earn.