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I’ve been invited to complete a written assessment for the TPM role at Amazon. Anyone attempted this recently? Any tips to successfully clear this round?
If I pull through, I was told I will make it to the interview finally. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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How do I get to be a female boss? I have 12 years of experience in my field with the skills sets and degree to go with it. The VP role is open in my department and is the only movement up at this point. My CEO says I don’t have leadership experience. I plan on asking her to clarify that definition. I led projects, mentored the last 5 people who have been hired, managed volunteers, and supervised student workers (not all at the same job). I’ve had great reviews for the three years I’ve been there

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What would you call this role?

- Lead product status reporting to CEO, manage issues, risks
- Own Product Prioritization across 5 product lines
-Manage product launch delivery execution from idea to production and ongoing maintenance
-Manage relationship with key development vendor, peer to their companies head of delivery

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Have possible exits as a Chief of Staff at a SaaS startup (20M in funding) and as a Strategy Manager at a well known D2C company. Both pay ~125K, though the startup is remote and D2C is in NYC.

Love the creative / fun culture of the D2C, and scared if I’ll measure up to the CEO’s expectations at the startup. I do wonder if the CoS position will demonstrate more growth. Thoughts?

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Anyone have thoughts on working at PE portco? Have an offer as a strategy & bizops associate at a company that is growing rapidly via acquisition. However, not sure where this would lead my career. Role reports directly to CEO and CFO, as I would basically be their handyman for integration and other ad hoc business needs. Ideally, I would like to leverage this experience to work for other PE portcos. Have 3.5 YOE.

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Anyone have thoughts on working at a PE portco? Have an offer as a strategy & bizops associate at a company that is growing rapidly through acquisition. However, I am not sure where this would lead me in my career. The role reports directly to CEO and CFO, as I would basically be their handyman for integration and other tasks. Any insight would be appreciated. Lastly, my YOE is 3.5, if that matters.

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I’m joining a newly developed corp strategy/new ventures team at a high growth tech company.

Currently the leader of the group reports directly to the CEO. Underneath that individual will be a senior manager and a manager. I was offered the manager position. Before I accept my offer I would really like to speak with the senior manager. Would it be out of line for me to ask to speak with them before I accept my offer?  apparently they’re still negotiating with that individual.

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Would someone here be able to help think through exercising startup options? I’m currently partially vested at a Series C (soon to be D), and considering taking a new role at a seed stage (soon series A). Both companies are updating 409As now, and it sounds like early exercising at the seed stage company might be on the table. Current company is well-known, run by a famous CEO, has been around for a while, but isn’t profitable yet. I know that after 90 days ISOs turn into NSOs.

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Help - i lead a social media department. We’re growing and need to staff up. What should be my key hires outside of a social media manager? I would like to find someone who can help me build a business case for our brand to invest in Tik Tok for ex. My CEO responds to ROI and as a creative by trade, i don’t know how to do that well. Is it a deck? Are there numbers out there? This is a role I could hire but what’s the name of that role? Thanks!

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Jumped from biglaw pship to join ~$2B company <12 mo ago. Pitch was to come grow into GC role and have strategic seat at table. Quickly learned only opinion that matters is micromanaging CEO/controlling SH and rest of exec team kowtows to his desires as (even when wrong) plus general hostility for back office functions. Has killed long-term appeal of this gig. Trying to figure out next steps (stay a while, jump to another in-house gig, go back to private practice) and any advice appreciated.

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Would you leave as a senior associate to be in a director role at an energy company “chief is staff” reporting to CEO and CFO. Leading investor relations?

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Looking for advice. If my agency is hiring and would like to give preference to POC, but the CEO has been known to make racist comments...would you want to be told this by an interviewer? A sort of “enter at your own risk”? Everyone else at the agency is great, and we want to do the work to lift up POC. But the CEO is not going anywhere and will not change. We don’t want anyone to feel tricked or trapped in a toxic environment. Do we give up or give a warning? And how should we warn people?

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Another career advice related Q: currently in a leadership role with a strategic (bit early stage) entrepreneurial venture backed by a mega PE firm (could be CEO soon)...also being headhunted by T2 firm for an AP role (that pays more than MBB for same level)...thoughts?

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Can anyone provide insight into IA roles for credit unions and insurance companies? Been interviewing and I’m unsure. For the credit union, I would be the only IA as it’s a new role they’ve created - they haven’t had any IA’s in the past as the duties were shared between depts. I would report directly to CEO. For the insurance company. The department consists of 3 senior auditors and a manager. I would report to the manager. They both seemed to be slower paced than PA which is what I want.

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Had three interviews for a role at a startup and was scheduled for a final round with the CEO and hiring manager. The final round interviews were rescheduled once and now canceled due to calendar conflicts (always told the day of). I haven’t been told that I’m no longer being considered but is this a nail in the coffin?

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Our company got a new CEO (onboarded today). I had a great relationship with the ex-CEO (I report to the COO who reports to the CEO). Now I am finding that some of the less competent people, who were not in favor with the previous CEO, are trying to maneuver and position themselves well with the new boss and it seems to be working. I’ve never been good at maneuvering, been more the type to wait for my work to shine through. Cont.

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I have an interview with the CEO for an in house position which I found out will be in person. I am newly pregnant (issue in itself) what’s a good way to ask if there will be safety measures in place?

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Interviewing for a chief of staff role at a startup that’s raised about $14M so far. What should I look for when assessing if this is a good opportunity?

Would work directly with CEO and expecting cash compensation of 100K and 0.25% of equity. Is the equity % low?

CEO hopes to sell at 100M, meaning the equity would be valued at 60K a year (4 yrs), but this seems optimistic to me.

2 YOE for reference.

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Have been interviewing for a few months and have gotten mostly rejections so far. Now in the final stages with 2 companies... 1st is a FAANG where I have Individual contributor role at a senior level - 425 k tc (175 base + 250k rsu per year) and 2nd is a svp level role with large very well known tech consulting firm where I will report to ceo of my business unit with similar tc of 400k (325k plus 75k bonus.) I have 20 yoe. Which one would u choose if u r me.. assuming u get both offers?

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I was interviewing for a freelance job and asked about the creative director (small, new company). The CEO said they haven’t hired one yet and it took everything in my power to ask to be considered for that role. He wants to continue the convo tomorrow. I have 15 years of experience and have done the job of people and project manager and directed large content before. Without the title or salary! How can I prove to him that I can bring value and expertise to this role (besides from my portfolio)

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Just saw a Sr Partner move to CEO role directly, while obviously good for them, what motivates this instead of hiring from the ranks? Historically, how successful has it been?

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Curious what kind of exit ops I should look for if GL accounting doesn’t interest me at all. I was always wanting to shoot for CEO rather than CFO. Currently a new tax manager, but started my career as an auditor. I like my job other than the high hour peaks.

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Is it natural that most here seem to want to go down CEO route? I worked audit then fp&a and now consulting (cash flow, liquidity forecasting, business planning & turnaround) and wondering whether a more commercially focused (Group) Financial Controller role (in a PE backed buy and build strategy company) might make most sense next step wise especially if there is a route to FD then CFO eventually. Is no one interested in such opportunities?

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If one day you become CEO of a company, would you consider hiring management consultants knowing what you know now? Why or why not?

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I’ve been at FB as a client solutions partner for 2 months. I initially turned down startup earlier for FB but I’m not in love with my role at FB since I want to do product. Startup I initially rejected told me there’s an PM opening. They are aware ive been at F but I’ve told ceo in the past that I’m not happy since I want to do product which is why he reacted out. I want to do product long term - should I leave or stay at FB. TC is 140k vs 160k at FB. 2.5 YOE

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Looking to exit to CEO, any tips?

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Interviewing with a midsize software company for a VP role, and have a meeting coming up with the CEO. What question should I ask him about the company or anything else that only he can answer? I also want to do well in the meeting... so welcome any other suggestions.

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Looking at potential exit to MITRE but I am seeing so many negative reviews about their CEO. Anyone care to share their objective view on what’s going on?

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Quick survey - what is the highest paid position in an ad agency (excluding CEO/CMO)?

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Landed a final interview at a mid-size agency for a senior digital role. Interview is with both the CEO & VP of Digital. Any tips for success? What types of questions might they ask me?

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Help. Had rounds of interview for a senior role in a industry, made it to the final round with CEO. I thought the interview went pretty well, and connected with the hiring manager on LinkedIn too; otherwise why would they arrange me to meet with CEO and founder ? But it’s been a month since my last round and no update .BUT , I saw the hiring manager post on LinkedIn said they are hiring. Did I ask for too much pay? I asked for 110 k, because I have 7 years experience, 3 yr BIG 4;

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What's the most thankless job/role in advertising and why? Copywriter? CEO? Analytics? Strategy? Account Management? Etc

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Hey guys I have an offer for corporate strategy role from a company backed by one of the largest conglomerate of India. They are offering almost 50% increment with an opportunity to work at CEO office. Although company is stable and many investments are flowing in but financially (individual) net income is negative from quite sometime now. The idea of working in CEO office is tempting but scary due to current scenario. How should I weigh/ assess offer in current scenario.

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Interviewed with a senior income tax acct role at Industry. Made it to the final round with CEO. It’s been three weeks. Followed up with HR, HR told me it’s been slow getting corporate feedbacks ( CEO). Followed up with CEO, he told me to check status with recruiter. But they just refreshed the post about the job yesterday on various site- means they passed on me ?? I thought the interview went very well. :(

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Thoughts on taking an entrepreneur in residence position / CEO title at a venture backed RE SaaS for a 20-30% pay cut, 20% equity, and all the risk that comes with failure? Deets below:

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Someone gave me this advise and was hoping to hear the bowls feedback:
The best way to get an interview at a startup is to email the founder/ceo about the role and let them refer you to HR. Good advice or bad advice?

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Considering a jump to industry - $3b company. Role would report to CEO as head of strategy. Team would be small 2-3 people, but mandate to make change happen across the organization. Lead strategic planning, working with startup within the company. Some promises to run a BU in ~2 yrs. thoughts? Watch outs? What should I expect from comp perspective.

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I’m being offered a part time project manager role at a website/software development company. Would oversee 10 developers and report to CEO/founder. No benefits, just salary. How much should I ask for salary?

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I’m being offered a part time project manager role at a website/software development company. Would oversee 10 developers and report to CEO/founder. No benefits, just salary. How much should I ask for salary?

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