In this episode, we talk to Rob Fontenot, a product manager at Swipeclock who made a lateral transition into a product management role.

I started coding from the eleventh standard itself, went to a premier engineering college, majored in software engineering, had some amazing software developer job offers in the final year of college, took one of them, and ended up becoming a software developer (Backend-Java).

Years ago I was hired as a Data Scientist at Google. Receiving that offer was a monumental, epochal moment in my life. Flashing forward several years, you’d find that I was doing pretty well, securing a few promotions along the way. Despite my success in data science, I grew more and more intrigued with the notion of transitioning into product management. I’ve since moved on from Google, but that’s the topic of a future article!