Nikhyl Singhal

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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google) · 19 Apr 2026 podcast

But the 8,000 people they're going to hire are going to all be AI first.

And the 30,000 they're gonna let go of are gonna be in combination of we didn't get as much for those folks that we needed and we wanted to sort of set the, we wanna set the destination differently with a much lighter payload.

And that's dark.

That's gonna make this year and the next two years, you're gonna be pretty, pretty challenging.

So I'll transition a little bit to my thoughts on people, but I'll pause for a second to see if this resonates with you.

We report came out in a fortuitous time because it was right before I was preparing to kind of come on the show.

And there are the three points I was going to make is, you know, builders are going to have the time of their lives comps actually up and the Bay area is, you know, essentially back in, in, uh,

in in favor and i think those three things came very much loud and clear in your report and i think you're the question around hey why are product managers doing so well why are there so many jobs when in reality a lot of product people that all of us know are struggling to find a role or we're hearing about these layoffs i think it depends on how you define what a product manager is and i think that for the first time i think that we did have a dramatic shift in what's defined

we three years ago talked about, hey, product managers, there's lots of archetypes.

Some archetypes are actually more in favor.

This was the IC conversation, the builder conversation.

Now what we're essentially saying is the information mover is essentially going to become a dinosaur.

And I think about half of the product people that grew into the industry have that skill and superpower.

And then there were a set of people who got into product because they like to build stuff.

You know, and, you know, folks like yourself who were founder, who that was sort of the motivation into joining kind of the industry.

And then they found themselves into this thing called product management.

Those folks are builders, you know, and those people are the ones that are being hired by your survey.

I think those product managers, everybody wants a builder.

And I think that interestingly, lots of engineers are builders.

Lots of designers are builders.

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