Apply to Stanford CS from MS&E

exstudent
Sun, 10 Mar 2013 08:39:39 +0000

As someone who’s hired many PMs (and other tech people), I can assure you that a degree in CS is not necessary for a Product Manager role. A PM needs to be able to understand technology sufficiently well to be able to talk with techies as well as non-techies. So your communication skills, writing skills, ability to make judgement calls, and so on will matter much more than whether or not you took classes in Automata Theory & Operating Systems (for example).

Hope that helps. If you want more guidance feel free to send me a message.