Everything you wanted to know about being a new-grad Program Manager
Every time I tell my friends and family that I’m a Program Manager at Microsoft it is met with a lot of confusion — “wait — you’re a manager? But didn’t you just graduate? Are you sure that’s your actual job? What do you do? So are you in IT?”
This has by far been the most requested article since I’ve started blogging. I constantly get questions through social media as well as in person about what it is like to be a Program Manager, how I became one and what skills helped me land the job.
So to avoid constantly repeating myself and reach a place where I can finally explain to people what I do — here is a long article with answers to everything you’ve ever wanted to know about being a Program Manager!
So What Does a Program Manager do?
As I mentioned, this has been the most requested article, but also the one I’ve been putting off writing the most too!
One of the reasons that I’ve been putting off writing this article is because the job description of a PM is pretty confusing. In fact, I really did not know what I was going to be doing until I started working a few months ago. Almost every PM I’ve met has done wildly different things. And to make things a little more interesting PMs do different things at…
