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Waterloo Engineering, Tech over Consulting, Doing PM in Silicon Valley: Umesh Khanna – Atila TV 7
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Tomiwa Ademidun에서 제공하는 콘텐츠입니다. 에피소드, 그래픽, 팟캐스트 설명을 포함한 모든 팟캐스트 콘텐츠는 Tomiwa Ademidun 또는 해당 팟캐스트 플랫폼 파트너가 직접 업로드하고 제공합니다. 누군가가 귀하의 허락 없이 귀하의 저작물을 사용하고 있다고 생각되는 경우 여기에 설명된 절차를 따르실 수 있습니다 https://ko.player.fm/legal.
Umesh is a currently in the Waterloo Systems Engineering program. He is an incoming product management intern at Credit Karma in San Francisco. He has previously worked at Flexport, Toast, Clearbanc and Shopify in a mix of product and engineering roles.
In this episode we talk about why he chose Tech over consulting and Product Management over software engineering. Managing mental health and burnout in the high pressure Waterloo Engineering and California tech cultures and much more.
Timestamps
What was the hardest internship to get? [20:00]
Advice for getting a job in tech? [23:00]
How you got into Waterloo Engineering, one of the most competitive programs in Canada? [4:45]
Why he switched from electrical engineering to systems engineering? [8:50]
How do you decide what companies you want to work for? [13:15]
Tomiwa and Umesh Debate working for small company vs. big company [14:50]
Why he chose startup PM at Credit Karma over consulting at Deloitte and Oliver Wyman and PM at Microsoft? [32:15] -> [32:33]
When he realized he didn’t like coding even though he was in the engineering program [36:33]
Finding work-life balance and managing mental health in the high pressure Waterloo Engineering and “cali or bust” Tech cultures [39:20]
What drives you to work so hard? [44:40]
Prepping for a PM interview vs prepping for a consulting interview? [31:55]
Links
Professor Bill Anderson’s Waterloo Engineering Blog: https://profbillanderson.com/
Podcast Umesh is Currently obsessed How I built This Podcast: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this
The organization which Umesh and Tomiwa recommend young people to Join: Shad and TKS
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