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[aphextron]

To each his own I guess. I find being an engineer to be far less stress than I imagine product managers are under. As a engineer I can just "not care" about whatever random business case is being handled and focus on writing code and honing my skills. Having to care about $company_name's business problems sounds soul draining to say the least.

[dvt → aphextron]

Having creative control is, to me, very important. I'd much rather solve a problem from start to finish than implement a solution I believe is completely flawed.

[bradknowles → aphextron]

IMO, if you’re not caring about the business problems your company is facing, then you are going to be ill-suited to help solve them.

In that case, you should probably go work somewhere else where you can care about the problems being faced by the business.

All IMO, of course.

[enraged_camel → aphextron]

You need to understand the problems your product is supposed to solve. That holds true whether you are an engineer or a product manager.