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PMs? You Mean Backward Deployed Engineers?
Management PMs Post #8293 · source on Telegram

PMs? You Mean Backward Deployed Engineers?

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A dark-mode X screenshot of a tweet by tweet davidson (@andyreed), a blond man in a circular kitchen photo with a blue verification check. The tweet reads exactly: "PMs? you mean backward deployed engineers?" It riffs on the 2026 craze for Palantir-style Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at AI labs and startups by inverting the prestige title: product managers become "backward deployed engineers" — engineers pointed at the roadmap, the deck, and Jira instead of the customer site.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Forward deployed sits with the customer. Backward deployed sits with the roadmap and calls the Jira ticket a ship.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Forward deployed sits with the customer. Backward deployed sits with the roadmap and calls the Jira ticket a ship.

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