Top reasons why you won’t like being a Product Manager

Dhaval Thakur
2 min readFeb 12, 2022

I have been writing about Product Management a lot lately. All glittery stuff ! yeah.. but like every coin has two sides.. so thus our beloved Product Management role does!

In this story I would talk some of the cons/ challenges that Product Managers face in their work routines.

Without any delay lets get into it!

Cons of Product Management (Credits : Quora.com)

Cons/Irritations faced while you being a Product Manager!

  1. The worst thing about being a Product Manager is having to overcome the limitations imposed by budget and technology.
  2. You have to budget a lot of time around communication while concentrating on product details.
  3. You would need to learn to be comfortable being accountable for things largely out of your control.
  4. For PM, internal politics can be an acute pain point due to the cross-functional nature of the role. Most workers don’t have to deal with every department. Their interactions usually limited to a subset of the total organization.
  5. One of the downside of being a Product Manager is that you are the point person and jack-of-all-trades person which actually this job demands. There’s almost nothing you can’t do, so you’re asked to do everything.

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Dhaval Thakur

Data Enthusiast, Geek, part — time blogger. Every week 1 new Data Science/ Product Management story 🖥 I also write on Python, scripting & blockchain