How important are hard skills for a Product Manager? Do you ...

Prompt

How important are hard skills for a Product Manager? Do you need to know technology like a backend-client architecture to be a good PM, to be just a PM? How much can you compensate lack of knowledge with strong soft skills? Does it depend on company scale: startup, scale-up, BigTech? What are the requirements from FAANG vs Russian BigTech? Who's more right?