Some organizations are well-known for favoring a certain profile among product management candidates. Amazon, for example, has historically preferred MBAs. Google, on the other hand, has been known for preferring candidates with a computer science degree from Stanford. (The extent to which either of these companies still harbors these preferences is the subject of frequent debate.) Generally speaking, the “classic” profile for a product manager is either a technical person with some business savvy, or a business-savvy person who will not annoy the hell out of developers.
