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Product Manager vs Software Engineer Careers, in Malaysia
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TSLilianVoss
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Oct 4 2025, 09:50 AM, updated 2 months ago
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Between Product Managers and Software Engineers, which career path offers a higher long-term ceiling — in terms of pay, leadership opportunities, etc?
This post has been edited by LilianVoss: Oct 4 2025, 08:16 PM
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rd33
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Oct 14 2025, 01:02 AM
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QUOTE(LilianVoss @ Oct 4 2025, 09:50 AM) Between Product Managers and Software Engineers, which career path offers a higher long-term ceiling — in terms of pay, leadership opportunities, etc? In Malaysia very simple. Management role always has higher ceiling salary than technical role. Very2 seldom you can have technical role higher salary ceiling than management, except when you join MANGO/FAANG companies.
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TSLilianVoss
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Oct 14 2025, 08:44 PM
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QUOTE(rd33 @ Oct 14 2025, 01:02 AM) In Malaysia very simple. Management role always has higher ceiling salary than technical role. Very2 seldom you can have technical role higher salary ceiling than management, except when you join MANGO/FAANG companies. But can Product Management be considered as true management?
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