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I interviewed for a Sr. Technical Product Manager role at AWS. This was shortly before Covid happened. Every interview seemed to go well until the on-site. It

I interviewed for a Sr. Technical Product Manager role at AWS. This was shortly before Covid happened. Every interview seemed to go well until the on-site. It literally felt like I was wasting their time. They gave me very bad holier than though vibes. It seemed like every answer I gave was just given a head nod then on to the next question. They asked very basic level PdM interview questions. Things I would expect a first time PdM to know, which surprised me because I was interviewing for a Sr. role. I assume I didn’t integrate their “principles” enough into my answers because I was rejected and put on a 6 month waiting list to reapply again. That ended up being the last straw for me. I was already on the fence about working at a BigTechCo based on previous bad experience. I ended up starting my own company. Best decision I could have made.

exikyut 5y ago
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exikyut 5y ago

Wow, https://www.haekka.com/ https://www.haekka.com/ looks awesome. Security awareness based on culture-building, delivered as a Slack app. This is such a tricky market to frame viable, accessible solutions for. Very cool approach. The "free training" links at the bottom of the site also caught my eye, and I found they link to long-form one-pagers. So now I'm learning about https://docs.haekka.com/hipaa-training https://docs.haekka.com/hipaa-training, with https://docs.haekka.com/Free-SOC-2-Training-ee02fd6d1b3044c7bc92f5da58ee68f5 https://docs.haekka.com/Free-SOC-2-Training-ee02fd6d1b3044c7..., https://docs.haekka.com/Free-GDPR-Training-6c099e88af2642a599073347398cc4a9 https://docs.haekka.com/Free-GDPR-Training-6c099e88af2642a59... and https://docs.haekka.com/Free-Security-Training-55722324e24242b8b25283c646f82fe1 https://docs.haekka.com/Free-Security-Training-55722324e2424... queued. A nice touch. (I really like the site design :) pixel-art FTW)