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I find it easy to give interviews, take above 50% hike and promotion. But its near to impossible for me to gain that in any of my current or previous org. I don't know how to grow where you are at ...

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I find it easy to give interviews, take above 50% hike and promotion. But its near to impossible for me to gain that in any of my current or previous org. I don't know how to grow where you are at ths moment. Can someone enlighten me😑

How to grow in a organization?

Software Developer

How to grow in a organization?- Grapevine

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I have over 7 years of experience as a Product Manager and I did amazing in the initial years  but with time I feel I am having a setback :(.
I was initially working in small companies but the exposure I received was immense, now I am in MNC and I feel I am not getting much exposure, and I feel the communication skills I possess are not up to the mark. How do I climb up the ladder and grow my over all skills?

With the advent of AI/ML, as product manager how are you keeping yourself up with the technology?

Product Manager

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Context: 10.5 YOE, Marketing lead. I've been looking for a switch since September last year. I'd seen signs of maybe my role or the company itself folding very early and knew 'twas time to bolt. But it's not that easy. Back then - 1 year in a startup meant hey not bad, people still spoke to you and considered your profile. These days, they treat you like Ebola if you've not had your ass stuck in the same place for 3-5 years. 

Anyway, so the majority of my time searching for jobs was the shitty Easy Apply or IIMJOBS premium account route. Suprise suprise. It doesn't work. But hey I was still employed and not nearly as motivated as someone who's unemployed. 

Cut to layoffs: Got laid off with my whole team and a huge chunk of other leaders. My first layoff, felt hilariously like the last day of school. To the org's credit they gave us 3 month severance, leave encashments and extra months for those who'd been there for 2 years+. In hindsight hearing the horror stories of 2k severance from Byju's. I'm grateful for the nice golden parachute I got. I'll be honest, it contributed heavily to my mental stability. I had time, I had leverage, I didn't have to run for the first shitty opportunity that came my way. 

The How I did it (why you struggled through the above stream of consciousness) 

- Wrote to 159 founders with one pagers to 35 of them with ideas on how i'd lead their marketing function. 5 replies. 3 interviews. 2 offers - didn't take em cuz they were super early stage or diff cities. This is immediately in month 1 so I've already started feeling icky about not getting great brands to have in my set. 
- Easy Applied to 768 (I ran a Gmail search, this is a real number) jobs. 99% no responses or you've been rejected. 
-Kept changing one letter on my Naukri.com profile, got me 6 calls, 3 interviews and 1 conversion 

I think theres a word limit to posts 🥲 following up as comments below.

Finally got a job (here's the do's and dont's)

Part 3 
  
 - Add HRs and hiring managers on LinkedIn, send them free ideas and strategies. Its ok if they steal them it meant they were great. One of them will refer you, remember you or hire you. 
 - Have a CV and a summary (half a page) that gets people excited about wanting to read the CV. Only areas of expertise and bullet points for results  
 - Don't put the OpentoWork filter on your LinkedIn DP. Its radioactive. I know people actively avoid those profiles. But make sure to keep open to work beacon on for recruiters. It pushes you ahead  
 - Dont post low effort i need a job because im laid off, i dont have money, copy pasted by millions on Linkedin. If you're gonna publically ask for a job, make sure that post has enuff of your skillset screaming for a potential hirer to want to explore more. Else you'll get velle gadhe typing CFBR 
 - Dont be anal or choosy about interviewing, i literally gave 35-50 in 3 months that culminated in 4 offers. Each one taught me something, heck ive spoken to startups with 7 peeps in it  
 - The only one that can negotiate CTC is the one that can walk away. When the offer i wanted finally came, my fixed went down a tad, but variable increased. The role was worth it so i didnt bother negotiating. Places i wasnt excited about - oh i quoted 30% hikes and got it at one place :p

Brand Marketing Manager

Hi Folks,

Want to understand what makes you stay at a startup vs shop around in other companies or leave after 6months- an year? 

Please tell things other than initial compensation because you can always find someone paying more. Assume a market standard here.

How to get people to stay at a startup?

Founder

Is it a good time for early in career(1.5 YoE) to join Google India. I am curious about their current culture like WFH policies, management outlook, direction of company, growth opportunity etc in Bangalore offices only.

What can you tell as an insider to someone on the outside looking at Google for possible next switch.

Also, are there opportunities to shift from Bangalore to other location outside India?

Folks at GoogleIndia, what can you share?

Software Engineer

Hi guys, 

I wanted an advice from you as I am in a confused state. I have got an offer for a leading company with a significant pay raise. However, now at the end of my notice period my current employer is ready to give me a pay raise and match the offer. What should I do? 

I have been stagnant when it comes to growth in my current organization and whatever Upskilling I have seen is through my after office hours study. I am confused as to what should I do!? I have a 1.5 yrs experience.

Job Change Advice

Associate Product Manager

Current profile- Category management in Series B startup
Total years of experience- 6
Education- MBA Tier 2
Salary - 15 CTC (12+3)

Want to understand salary levels for YOE, and which companies I can grow from here

Growth chances

Consultant

Any efficient ways to met excellence at work & step up the ladder🤔....(As on current step idk any chances of hike because of the recession)

How to step up the corporation ladder?

Data engineer

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Seeking advice on how to grow at work, without having to butter up too many people. I have been struggling with this, because I feel too many people around are managing their managers, and using it as way to grow. My reviews and feedbacks have consistently been good, but I feel that for the output I provide, I am not growing as much, because of favouritism. 

Advice needed.

How to grow at the workplace without indulging in politics?

Need advice from the community.

I had my performance review with my manager last week. The broad feedback was something like this- in her mind, if I'm given any task, she knows it will be done and done well, meeting all expectations. She acknowledged that I'm sincere, hard working and don't cut any corners with my work. But will the task be done ++, she wasn't sure.

I've been moving from fighting one fire to the other and never really got a chance to settle in one project, barring one, which my boss says I truly aced. Most of my colleagues believe I've done a stellar job and deserve the top rating but I didn't get that from my manager. 

My last 1:1 was almost 6 months back and all this time I never really got an indication that 'more' was expected. In fact when I was pulled into projects the only thing I was told was to 'look into this and resolve' without clear goals.

I understand this year reviews are tight at most startups but I was left wondering where this came from and what to make out of it. I'm due for another discussion next week. 

Any advice on how to proceed?

Advice on appraisal discussions

Business Operations

A few colleagues of mine who got promoted in the mid year cycle had ordered a few snacks yesterday. But I didn't go there due to the fact that I wasn't promoted in this cycle.

I know that this attitude of mine is going to hurt me but I don't know how to handle this.

Any suggestions because frankly speaking this feeling is killing me from inside and I can't stop thinking about this even after my office is over.

Jealousy is killing me

Research Specialist

i have been program manager for about 2 years in non-tech role mostly working on analytics, customer success and operation with major expertise in data analysis. 

Now I am trying to upskill myself so that I can earn more and also become more relevant to companies

My Question is

1. What should I do in next 1 year to upskill myself
2. What job roles and organisation should I look for starting next year
3. How career growth looks like for program manager 5 years down the line

Please help this lost girl!

How to grow as a Program Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I have been working in a small bootstrap startup ( 50 employees). The company is profitable and have great culture and ethics ( best out of the 4 companies I have worked for). 

I am expecting a decent salary hike (30%), career and learning growth. Should I look for a larger organisation or make up my mind for a long term career in my current organisation.

P.S. I have 3 years of post- MBA experience and I have done Btech and MBA from premium institutes.

Career Advice

I have been working in a small bootstrap startup ( 50 employees). The company is profitable and have great culture and ethics ( best out of the 4 companies I have worked for). 

I am expecting a decent salary hike (30%), career and learning growth. Should I look for a larger organisation or make up my mind for a long term career in my current organisation.

P.S. I have 3 years of post- MBA experience and I have done Btech and MBA from premium institutes. 2 years of PM experience.

Hello all, I have 2 years in embedded software developement. I come from ECE background and want to switch my domain to VLSI. I am undergoing training and working on Front End Design and Verification projects. 
All the openings I see on LinkedIn or anywhere is either for 3+ years experience or interns who are in college. Forget cracking the interview I don't know how to get the opportunity to face one.
I don't know where am I going wrong. Can someone please let me know how can I get opportunities? Please advise 🙏. Thanks

Switching to VLSI after 2 years experience in embedded

Embedded Software Engineer

Hiring for a bunch of roles for an early stage startup. Salaries of people who have been laid off is through the roof

2-3 years experience asking for 30-40l and while we chose not to judge the experience and spoke to a few of them, most of them are not even worth half of the pay. 

Many are jobless since last 2-3 months and none of them are willing to take a paycut of even 5-6L and are willing to stay jobless ( probably have a ton of savings )

Market correction is necessary.

Roles : PM, software engineers, generalists

What's wrong with salaries

If you are paid less, don’t extrapolate it on others. If they are willing to wait, let them. You should keep praying for “corrections”.

Hi everyone, 2023 IIT Grad here, working in ServiceNow since July 2023. 
Current Base: 15L
I have around 7-8 months of experience here and over a year of experience at Startup and Servicenow being a Software Engineering jntern, at startup, I was almost a full time, leading projects on my own. 

I recently had a 1:1 with one of my teammate, he is couple of years senior and has a base of 24L. He told me you have been working really good, so in this upcoming March, you can either ask for a promotion OR for a good hike. 
I have heard, in ServiceNow, promotion or hikes happen only once a year. 

Then I talked to someone with 7-8 yoe, he told me it won’t be good to talk about this when you have just joined that is, 7-8 months ago. He said take whatever they give you.

I need community’s views should I talk to my manager about this OR Should I let it go? My friends at other companies are making 20+. I didn’t sit for placements because of PPO. 

Please advise. Thank you!

Servicenow | 7 months in the firm

Hi folks, I’m grossly underpaid and my work output + impact warrants a promotion and a fat hike imo. But being told that this is not possible mid year. What can I do to make it happen? Haven’t had a proper conversation regarding this with manager yet.

How to ask for a promotion/hike mid year?

I have read and heard it several times, that in one on one’s with your manager discuss your growth with him, but I never understood it, how to do it in every 1:1 or more than once or twice?
Growth is something very simple to me
Software Engineer to Senior to Principal to Staff etc

And you keep working at next level and you get promoted, but what discuss about it in every 1:1 ?

How to discuss growth with my Engineering Manager during 1:1?

I’m a software developer currently working in small service based company. I have 1+ year of experience in software development. 
I didn’t see any growth of myself in the current organisation. I’m willing to work in a organisation with consistent growth to my career. 
Any referrals would be appreciated.

Preferred location: Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Coimbatore, or any other cities.
Tech stack: .NET, SQL Server, .NET Core MVC, basics of Angular, HTML, etc.

Please dm to learn more about me.
Thanks

Looking for growth in my career!

Why AMA?-
New to GV. I see potential here; trying to gauge audience and perhaps I can talk about a thing or two; can definitely learn from ya’al otherwise.

Primer Qs (from some successful AMAs outside of GV)-
What tech has better future?
Is Ai going to kill our jobs?
How to increase Tc 5x, 10x, 20x+?
Startups vs big corps?

Background, Tc stuff-
Decade+ yoe
Started with <10Lpa. Crossed >10Lpm.
Life is fun and no amount of money is enough.
I’ve seen it firsthand that the investments and luxuries grow at far bigger rate than your comp, Can’t complain though.

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