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aldebran | 4 months ago

HN seems to think PMs have a lot more power at Microsoft or large corps than they actually do. I assure you, a bunch of this stuff just comes top down because some VP's million dollar bonus rides on it.

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OptionOfT|4 months ago

The mandate to implement these kind of pop-ups doesn't come from above.

The mandate to identify ways to increase profit comes from above, and it is the PMs (through marketing/research/developers) that come up with ways to satisfy these requirements.

And failure to meet these requirements means a bad review and a chance of being laid off.

aldebran|4 months ago

Bro I worked in the windows team. I’m telling you how it was.

Trust the HN crowd to know.