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Heard it hard to pivot from Google S&O to Product Strategy even with 20% projects internally…
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Product Management at a large bank vs Business Analytics/S&O for FAANG? Recently started in the former role, but have interview calls for the latter just come up in my mailbox. Similar comp when adjusted for the different job locations. Can anyone help me with the Pros and Cons please. I know the roles are different, and so are the industries, need to understand difference career paths and difference in corporate cultures. JPMorgan Chase Google LinkedIn Citi
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Is it worthwhile to raise this as a cultural concern, or no hope and classic tech bro vibes? It’s getting to a point where I feel like my growth is getting stunted and I’m not getting set up for success
It is not fair good luck
Document everything - if it gets bad enough it could be useful if you had a case for a lawsuit.
Agreed it's not worth the retaliation to try changing startup culture. The tech bro delusional Dunning Kruger Effect is terminal there.
in my experience you're (somewhat) better protected as a woman at a publicly traded company, especially in the regulated industries.
I can relate to this, except different prejudice young Indian guy in an older white dominated part of the company. They would blind side my efforts, way I managed, and wouldn’t lend a finger to help me. But when it came to younger white guys they babied them, gave them recognition for not doing shit, etc… I hated it and it was the first time I experienced culture shock but you’re better off
1. Doing the inner work to let go/integrate some of your own prejudices to men (it’s there everyone’s got it I promise - you attracted this situation for a reason)
2. Then go somewhere else, and try your best to vet the job by networking with ppl there to see how it is
You can ofc stay and adapt and not let what their doing bother you (integrating - which is what I had to do for a bit because I wasn’t getting offers), but I and I think you would prefer not to
This is objectively hard to respond to because there’s more factors at play than just gender and the issue is being looked at from a very specific lens.