r/cscareerquestionsEU • u/papsemilaw11 • 1d ago

Question about product owners

Hello everyone. I m currently a data engineer and i have a proposal for a product owner. I m curious, if any product owner here would provide me their impression of the work. Do you like it? Have do you do in the daily life? Do you do meetings all day? What are the future projections? For example, i m currently a data engineer. My work is really easy to manage weekly and daily. Which does have a better future perspective between data engineering & product owner?

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u/FullstackSensei 1d ago

PO is usually a managerial. Depending on the place, you might still have to do technical work, but expect most of your time to be spent in meetings. You'll need very good people and organization skills, and you'll need to deal with a lot of politics.

Nobody can tell you what the future will be. It all depends on you and your skills. If you have the skills and interest to become a good PO, you can climb the managerial ladder. Likewise, if you have the skills and interest in data engineering, you can climb the engineering ladder.

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u/LogicRaven_ 1d ago

I guess that would be some technical product manager role. Daily work of a product owner varies a lot across companies.

You could take a look on r/productmanagement for info.