A reflection on my education, minus school, as a Product Manager

Sina Meraji
7 min readAug 23, 2020

I came across a retrospective post that I wrote last year and it reminded me it’s a good time to write a 2-year review post about my growth and learning as Product Manager. I even picked a cover photo of me working with our CEO on a product that I manage, that responds to that title.

But as I started writing this post tonight, I realised I’m having a strong tendency to share more about my education instead, since tech careers are pretty much still a black box to a lot of people (including Computer Science and IT communities) and since I write to share knowledge and grow others, I felt I’d just write a bit about the journey that has brought me to Product Management before writing a reflection on what I’ve been learning as a PM over the past year.

From a Computer Science degree, straight to Product Management

This was something I did that surprised some of my friends and people who knew me (and made a few other people say “I knew it!”). After all, I studied Computer Science and…

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