Excerpt from a YouTube video in which a former Google product manager describes their day-to-day: heavy meeting load, differing daily work from engineers/designers, and unique collaborative opportunities at Google where world-leading experts are accessible to consult and contribute to projects.
You know, so I was a product manager. And so day to day for me is going to be very different than if you go talk to like an engineer or designer. For me, really it was a lot of meetings, let me be perfectly honest, just like a ton of time. But there's some very cool things I think like Google and big tech companies generally are sort of this like interesting microcosm where it's like, you know, I'll send out an email and the like the guy that wrote the book on computer vision, like the computer vision book that like everyone reads like response to it and I get a bunch of pings being like, oh, so and so responded to your thing. And it's like all these Pokemon that like, you know, these companies have caught that are available at your beck, beck and call to share ideas with, pull into your own projects and really just like.
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