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Ask HN: How important is “general knowledge” to you?
I met two people that work, or worked, in senior positions at one of the big 6 tech companies in the US. (Not Google.)
Neither of them knew that: Sundar Pichai was the CEO of Google, or that Google had re-organized as Alphabet, or that Larry Page had taken over as CEO of Alphabet.
Is this just an outlier in the world, or is that something you would expect a senior manager to know?
- startupdiscuss 10y agoThat's a surprise. Were they fresh out of school?
- inputcoffee 10y agoMiddle Managers. I don't know the various ranks of managers but if I had to guess in the upper half of management.
- parul 10y agoI would definitely expect a senior manager in a tech company to know that! Keeping an eye on trends, competitors, influencers, big shakeups is a must for doing their job.