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Hi Founders Office/ Generalist roles
How do you convince companies of different industries of your work and abilities 
You may or may not have prior experience, and yet are able to crack the job

What are the secrets? And how can I implement them?

Interview tips

Consultant

Interview tips- Grapevine

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

To all people who have switched from conventional corporate careers like consulting, banking etc. to a founder's office role

How has your experience been?
What worked/ didn't work?
What do you think is a long term play here?
What should one consider before switching?

Do mention the stage and industry. TIA!

Your founder's office role experience

Business Analyst

How to get in the founder office role? Which skills do they look in candidate ?
How should I apply to such roles?

Founder office

Junior Analyst

What is the usual selection process for chief of staff / founders office roles? Any tips?

Venture Capital

Hi, 
Currently working with a big 4 consulting firm (1 year experience) wanting to switch to a startup (preferably: founder’s office, strategy or growth roles) for a varied pre-mba experience, and a younger/vibrant work setup
What skills do I need and what advice would you give me?

Founder’s Office Roles

Analyst

Can you guys help with the range of salaries and which companies are hiring for Founders office roles
YoE: 3 years of corporate experience, 9 months of trying my hands at entrepreneurship. 
What will be a good salary for someone like me in the current environment? 
What are similar folks making?

Current founders office roles hiring and salaries on offer

Growth Manager

I’ve applied and interviewed for jobs before but this is the first time I have an interview for a start up, that too with the cofounder. Apart from the role technicalities, what are some questions I should ask the Cofounder?

Interview with Cofounder of a startup

How to prepare for interviews for Non tech roles such as founder office, strategy roles?
What do they look for?

Preparation steps for Non Tech roles

Strategy Consulting

Hello there!

Is anyone on here familiar with the requirements and expectations from people in Founder's Office roles? I'm trying to pivot to a role in Strategy and Partnerships within a FO and would like to pick your brains about what I should expect/ prepare for.

Seeking advice from people in Founder's Office roles

How do you guys approach any startup company or MNC for work? How do you find a job? Is there any secret sauce that you use?
PS- Please don't suggest using LinkedIn jobs or career pages, that is a very basic thing that everyone does.

Reveal your secret

People who are recently doing a job search, how difficult is the current market
Especially for generalist roles- Program Manager, Founders office, Product managers. 

Also, how do you secure referrals.

Any tips would be helpful

Thanks

Job search

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

developers in my team are giving 1 hr interviews so swiftly while being on office. As most of my experiences are from home, how do you guys manage giving interviews from office?
Spell out some tricks and process 😬

Giving interviews in office like a PRO

Product Manager

I applied for a Chief of Staff role at a recently funded startup and the first question during the interview this particular founder asks me is that why have I applied for this role when I don't have any experience with these kinda roles and my current and previous roles were literally working in the Founder's Office. 

No wonder startups don't sustain themselves in the long run.

Stupid Founders

Founder’s Office

I'm a Tier 2/3 MBA grad (not sure if it's 2 or 3), but central university

Recently my contract was terminated and have been spiraling since then.
Even considered taking up intern roles. No reason tbh

My position is comfortable as expenses are limited and have about 6 months of funds.

On hindsight, I think it is a great opportunity to flip my story, to never be in such a position
But brain feels fogged, really want this MBA brain to be put to work

Can you help?

How to get the MBA temperament

Hey everyone. 

Thought I could do an AMA. A bit about me - have 4 years of work experience and graduated from a non engineering college. Was at a startup before (from Series B to Series D) before becoming a VC

Personally look at consumer and B2B investments here 

Happy to answer any questions around life as a junior VC, startup ecosystem, career growth etc.

AMA: I work at a large VC Fund focusing on early stage investments

This is the biggest problem with VC ecosystem 4 yoe kids taking calls on experienced, hardworking founders. Dude first learn the game then invest , judge people playing the game. VCs know nothing about how to run startups. Unless they have been entrepreneurs themselves. IMO It's a colossal waste of talent to become a VC for young PPL.

Software Engineer

Investment Associate

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

In India, it's the norm where candidate has to show all his cards (past 3 salary slips or increment letter etc) to prospect employer which sets the benchmark. However, the candidate usually has no idea abt the pay range for the JD, the KRAs, team strength, budget, and the monetary value he is expected to bring to the firm. Most firms also put 90day notice period which makes it difficult to change jobs.

How do you folks try to negotiate pay?
What %hike over current is a starting point?
If no other offer is in hand, but the firm is strong arming you to a less pay, how have you/would you negotiated in such scenario?

Salary negotiation

Investment Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

hi folks, wanted to know from people working at smaller (less known) companies as to how much the previous companies you’ve worked at matter while interviewing for FAANG roles? is the hiring primarily driven by algorithms and design questions performance? will working in a small stealth company be a blocker? is there someone who worked in a small company and moved places, if you can share experience. 

-asking while interviewing for 1-2 YOE roles

breaking into SDE1/2 roles

Software Developer

Hello everyone,

Saw quite some people doing AMAs on this platform from VCs to Engineers, but nobody from Founder's Office roles.

Knowing that this role is somewhat new in the job market, not many people still know a lot about it. Shoot your questions, would answer them to the best of my capacity.

Background: Worked in the FO role for 2 FMCG brands, before joining a Fintech where I am working right now. Graduated from BIT, Mesra in 2021, but started working alongside my graduation coz of COVID.

AMA - Working in Founder's Office from past 3 years.

Is interacting directly with founders/founding members or emailing them directly ever worked out for you while applying for a job rather than going via traditional route of resume shortlisting and then getting an interview which is really tough at an entry level where there are already high thresholds to get through it?

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