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Congratulations. I hope you enjoy working there. A close friend of mine used to work there in a very high position and they left after about a year or two, but
by cbozeman 4y ago
Congratulations. I hope you enjoy working there. A close friend of mine used to work there in a very high position and they left after about a year or two, but left for what I consider to be pretty ridiculous reasons.
I'm not quite sure how much I could share without revealing their identity, but essentially they were sat down and told to work on their appearance. They had enormous technical chops (probably in the top 10 people in the entire world at what they do), but at least 60 lbs. overweight, no sense of style or fashion, etc., and as unfortunate as it might be to hear it... when you reach Director-level / C-suite positions, you need to physically project that OR you have to be so absolutely dominant at what you do that they cannot ignore you. They aren't that dominate.
A shame really, but they went off to work for a private startup and seem to be quite happy anyway.