Can confirm. I've worked on infra teams for decades, at companies from 80-80,000 people, and I don't think I've _ever_ had a PM on a project I worked on.
EDIT: Note, this is not _necessarily_ a complaint, although I think they would have been very helpful in some circumstances. My main misgivings in working with PM orgs is when they treat my projects as a necessary evil input to the success of the projects they care about. So you get all of the hectoring and demands of professional management with none of the help.
EDIT: Note, this is not _necessarily_ a complaint, although I think they would have been very helpful in some circumstances. My main misgivings in working with PM orgs is when they treat my projects as a necessary evil input to the success of the projects they care about. So you get all of the hectoring and demands of professional management with none of the help.