Going onsite to interview at a medium sized SaaS company (500 ish employees). Had a take home case and the case was for “Director” candidates. I thought I was interviewing for Senior Mgr level (cont)

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Terrified of failing because of lack of experience and just overall imposter syndrome

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Maybe you will get it right at your 2nd director role after a second 20% raise

A bit confused. They are also hiring for a Director. I don’t feel qualified to be a director, manage a bunch of people and lead a team....have never done it in the past. Not to mention I feel weird because I’m 10 years younger than the youngest person on the team as far as I can tell from LinkedIn and definitely have less experience than them. It’s one thing to be their peer, but to manage them is a whole new ballgame. Advice? What to do?

Also, I’m 4 years out (26 years old) of undergrad but worked full time as an analyst/sr analyst at a global company through all four years of school so have ~8 total years of experience. I am terrified

What are you terrified of?

What’s the worst that’s going to happen? You will not do well in the interview or the role? So what, it will be a learning.

It’s possible they might just not have a senior manager case, or maybe they wanted to size you up for both roles. Don’t sweat it, just do your best and see how it unfolds.

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