Why most Product Managers get fired in their first year. I've seen 40+ PMs leave their roles within 12 months. Only 3 were performance issues. The other 37? They made the same fatal mistake in their first 90 days. 5 Mistakes That Kill PM Careers in Year 1: 5️.  See 20 product problems and try to solve all of them. Overwhelm the engineering team with ambitious roadmaps. Result: Nothing ships well, everyone loses confidence. 4️. Jump straight into strategy without understanding team dynamics, existing user feedback, and historical decisions. Make enemies by questioning everything without context. 3️. Spend 80% of your time impressing the CEO, ignore the engineering manager who actually builds your features. Engineers revolt, deliveries fail, you get blamed. 2️.  Focus only on long-term vision projects that take 6+ months to show results. By month 4, leadership questions your impact and starts looking for replacements. 1️.  Use consultant language with engineers, technical jargon with business stakeholders, and startup slang in enterprise companies. Everyone thinks you don't understand their world. Your first 100 days determine your next 1000 days. Companies don't fire PMs for bad products. They fire PMs for bad politics. You can build the perfect roadmap, but if the team doesn't trust you to execute it, you're gone. 𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗿, 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗺𝗲. 𝗜’𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆.