yesandno
yesandno
Student

Day 1 advice? HELP!

Super last minute! I’m joining as a PM at a global bank tomorrow and this is my first job out of undergrad, I would love any tips! 🥺

14mo ago
Funny
Funny
Swiggy14mo

Leave grapevine. Build your own perspective about things for the first 6 months and then join back

RaggedArt1
RaggedArt1
Student14mo

Underrated comment

Soloprenure
Soloprenure
Swiggy14mo

+1

twoWrist
twoWrist

Add urself in business discussions a lot, grab knowledge from everywhere, gyaan ka Sagar hai, Gyan lete rho, Initially if u have to give more office hours it's fine, later it will give u lot of respect in ur team, company if worked

ElonMast
ElonMast
Amazon14mo
  1. Document Document Document! For a PM, document will become very important tool.

  2. Plan 1:1s with all stakeholders, understand their viewpoints on product you would be working on.

  3. Competition analysis (if possible) You can immediately put value by looking at things from fresh perspective, keep reading, learning about competition and see if they are doing something different.

Levii
Levii

What exactly do you mean by document. Can you elaborate and give an use case?

Asking as I don't have any idea about it.

ElonMast
ElonMast
Amazon14mo
  1. Document your 1:1s, especially with your HM. It will help you structure your conversations, bring more clarity to both involved

  2. Document your product ideas, proposals. There are many proven document templates (PRFAQ by amazon) available. They will help you communicate better with the stakeholders.

P.S. - My strong recommendation is to ignore the comments like “find your own path, get lost and make your way”. No, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel, you should build over and above.

Elon_Musk
Elon_Musk
X.com14mo

Don't become a glorified assistant to the head as that's usually the case in bank unless you working on a good product. Document everything even the simple useless shit, this makes you look competent and hard working even when your not. Ask tons of questions.

SiriusMcGuffin
SiriusMcGuffin

It doesn’t make you look competent. It makes you competent. It practices your brain to focus on tiniest details and derive information.
I have met many people across the field who don’t take notes and then completely lose context. This is across levels from juniors to CXOs.
Also ai note takers are useless. You never read them. You don’t need a transcript. You need to apply your brain.

Judas
Judas

All of the advices here are so very nice. Just curious, how did you prepare for the role? I also want to break into PM (working as a developer now; frankly I don't like it that much), was wondering if it's possible to transition at this stage without an MBA

yesandno
yesandno
Student14mo

Hey! I’m a fresher, and my undergrad was in commerce. I’d been preparing for consulting, I randomly came across this role and it went smoothly, zero prep. Best of luck!

Judas
Judas

Wow, good to know that. Atb!

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