3/23/2021

Was in Palo Alto, Detroit, and Indiana — now in NYC working for Brex as a Software Engineer

Worked on startup to manage government relationships

• Did sales, full-stack, product etc.

Want to get a technical background and then do product longer term

To be good at product you should be business, design or technical background

Recruiting

• Product:
  • Case studies (almost pure consulting), they might have you think about features / wire-framing a product, insights about user base
  • Will have brain-teaser like questions
  • To help out:
    • Read blogs about product
    • Think about what you like about your favorite product and why, what you would change about it, which pages do you use the most
  • Lots of bankers pivot to product

Size

• Was at a very small group and also at a very big company (FB), didn't want either
• At big companies, the work is less interesting because it gets abstracted away, very specific
• Looking at companies 50 to 500
• Smaller companies = longer hours
• FB and Google give you skills in very niche sectors, don't learn as much
• When evaluating a role, look to see who your manager will be

Roles

• Biz dev — very dependent on B2B or D2C (D2C is more analytics driven)
• Another role to look as growth — sort of a product position (intro to Oscar)