How far have you taken “Fake it till you make it”?
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Please help me
I m having offer from Collabera technologies and from Birlasoft and from some other companies .
for collabera client is ZS Associates
Collabera - 19 fixed and 1 joining bonus
Birla soft - 14 fixed and 1 joining bonus
And other also are same 14 or 15 lpa all fixed
YOE - approx 4 (3.10)
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I only fake confidence, never technical knowledge.
I came out of undergrad with a 2.9. I landed a corporate sales gig. Started working with lots of engineers and IT folks that had to implement the solutions I sold. Got a cert and got into consulting, but only at the analyst level, I think the recruiter was just being nice honestly lol. Ran several major projects on personality alone, the teams just liked me so they worked hard, I had no idea what they were talking about. Worked my ass off and moved up. Got an MBA from a well respected school, graduated with a 3.9. Now I’m interviewing for 400k director jobs and TPM roles. And I still don’t feel like I know anything lmao.
Really dislike it when people run things on personality alone
2 kids
Are you sure you made those kids. 🤣
Got into PM in tech from a non tech position learning from what others did and convincing everyone that I did it! Worked beautifully 🥰
Obviously you have to have project experience! My project experience wasn’t as a manager, but as an admin/coordinator. I learned from the big ones, I prepared myself, took courses, watched plenty of hours of YouTube videos of people explaining how they got into tech and after that it was a numbers game :)
Thing is, if you keep making it, then you aren’t faking it as much as you think you are. You are obviously smarter than you think you are.
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Every single job I’ve ever had
True that!
It’s not really faking it if you get the job done!
Getting the job done for a decade, still sure I just keep getting lucky. Just need to do another decade and I might start believing myself
All the way to retirement (newly retired - still check this thing 🙄)
I don’t. I say what I know and find out what I don’t. Always keep learning and no better time than on the dime.
This is the best answer to this question
I still have no idea how I made it this far in my career let alone not being homeless.
Yo I feel that! Haha
Wanted to switch into a field, data analytics, that I took one class on in college years ago. I did one dashboard project at my first job and sold myself as someone who actually knew data analytics. Looked up “most common sql interview questions” a day before the interview, messed up BASIC sql questions and milked the hell out of that one dashboard project during the interviews, and somehow am 6 months into my role in data now 🙃
@C1 yup you can!
All the way to the top baby
My first job was at AMZN as a Jr UX Designer. I don't know how I got the job. I had no enterprise experience and up-sold and exaggerated my previous work as much as I could without lying.
I became a Sr Designer at AMZN 4 months later. Not sure at all other than hard work how it all happened.
Wtf? That's nuts. Teach me your ways!! 😭😭
One of my first jobs out of college they needed someone who could write CSS. I proclaimed “Not a problem.” After I was offered the job I immediately bought a book on CSS. 🤣
My entire professional career, lol.
You think you are faking it until you talk with your peers and realize they know just as little as you do. Everyone is just doing the best they can!
Haha. This is my motto. And even when you feel like you made it, you should always stay in that stage where you’ll push yourself enough to be uncomfortable so you’ll always overachieve and grow in your career.
I got a “program manager” role out of a company that I was tech support for. The role was basically managing UAT with a bunch of high schoolers. I’m now a program manager at salesforce
I’m a Cloud engineer and know very little about the cloud and have no scripting or Linux knowledge. Never did more than work on windows servers
My mantra, and not in a negative way. It’s been the path to staying relevant in my 20 year career. Always keep learning!