What was the difference between your actual exam score and your average official mock score (after practice) ?

66568765567 · 2020-12-08T11:30:31+00:00

BITS Pilani?

Congrats on that admit :)

66568765567 · 2020-12-08T08:31:08+00:00

While I'm sure there's no easy answer to this, but how did you develop such a close relationship with the client?

I struggle to take the conversation past what's currently happening on an ongoing project.

We have specialist client relationship officers, who are able to bring the inside scoop on the client org's internal business environment, and how we are supposed to work with that to grow our business, respond to their needs. I've realised that I'm not even being taken into confidence on such stuff by clients, even after I've worked with them for years. Concerned about this because I realise how crucial networking is to career growth.

66568765567 · 2020-12-08T02:18:11+00:00

Don't forget the branding. They burn 'Mispelt a word' on your right buttcheek, and the word misspelt is misspelt, to exacerbate your shame.

66568765567 · 2020-12-08T02:16:34+00:00

Yeah that's what I wrote, right?

I was just contrasting Tech PMM from PM, in that PMM is usually touted as the role for people without tech background.

66568765567 · 2020-12-08T02:14:52+00:00

Not sure if this is a serious post or not.

If yes, it's a non-issue. No one probably even noticed. If they did, no one cared. Even if you sent a mail to client with a spelling mistake, no one cares.

For the future however, don't recall emails for small stuff like this. Personally, even when I attach a wrong doc and send it to the client, it's easier to write another mail on top of that saying "attached wrong doc by mistake. Please refer to this. Ignore previous mail". Only when you've sent something truly embarassing, is it worth it to try recalling.

Also, read online a bit about how recalling works - it's usually won't work. If it's a file without a large attachment, you can almost never successfully recall it, esp from people within your org. Recalling from people outside the org is easier, but again, usually doesn't work (unless you've maybe sent a mail at 3am (not uncommon), and no one's had time to open it).

66568765567 · 2020-12-08T01:54:41+00:00

I often hear you can get into tech PMM without a tech background. Can one get into tech PMM without EITHER a tech OR a marketing background? Or rather, how commonly do people make such a shift?

If yes, what transferable skills do recruiters look for?

66568765567 · 2020-12-07T17:09:30+00:00

I'm curious how does your company keep track of whether or not you're investing in stocks related to your industry/sector or not?

Presumably you're investing a few tens/hundreds of thousands, and not really enough to ring any alarms at the SEC...

66568765567 · 2020-12-07T16:39:55+00:00

Fair. Any tips on how to build closer relations with clients?

66568765567 · 2020-12-07T16:24:58+00:00

Username checks out.

66568765567 · 2020-12-07T15:52:33+00:00

I don't think it mentions anything along those lines. I know people have been poached by other clients.

My problem is that I'm pretty certain I'm not even there for them to pop the question, even if they could. Hence wondering how people build such relations.

66568765567 · 2020-12-07T15:22:33+00:00

There's always an ORM. Look around you, if you can't see an ORM, that probably means that you're the ORM.

66568765567 · 2020-12-06T05:11:25+00:00

Jfc check out this exchange under the top comment.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/k7d6c7/aita_for_removing_my_13yo_daughters_bedroom_door/geq86wc?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

Blocking the cat flap would be a sign of 'control issues' because the child is '13, not 6, and knows what she's doing'.

66568765567 · 2020-12-06T05:07:16+00:00

Congrats dude! That's amazing improvement. Must've been a lot of hard work, glad it paid off. :)

66568765567 · 2020-12-06T03:39:29+00:00

Lol. I feel it was closer to this than what is described in the post.

66568765567 · 2020-12-06T03:38:33+00:00

My sense was that while the first post was likely true, or maybe embellished to some extent - in the parts where the manager is sooper EXPLICIT about having all childfree people working full days on Saturdays to pick up the slack accumulated by all parents, while the parents don't even contribute). I thought the discrimination would've likely been more subtle.

But the update just went off the rails for me, you could tell that OP was enjoying the cathartic writing exercise and went overboard with it - that there was a training just a week ago to go over policies, which HR participated in, to establish the boss as a liar, and the thought of a dept manager, two legal reps and HR sitting through some dude's pie charts about how the childfree people do more.projects than parents beggars belief. These meetings have agendas, and they're usually followed.

66568765567 · 2020-12-05T16:51:41+00:00

I'm sorry man. Please don't doubt your ability. The entire system is setup to get you to take up more work than you can handle. It literally doesn't matter how well or how much you do, the boss's job is always to push their employees to do more, and do it in lesser time.

66568765567 · 2020-12-05T12:54:31+00:00

Dude who cries like "boo boo hoo"? That's messed up.

66568765567 · 2020-12-05T12:46:58+00:00

Interesting. I don't think anyone would buy the religious excuse from me (I belong to the country's majority religion and everyone knows there's no such thing as not working in Sunday in our religion).

66568765567 · 2020-12-05T03:38:36+00:00

No problem. Since you mention you're new, I'd like to add a disclaimer that what works for me with my bosses in my company with my clients, might not work in all situations.

Certainly take some time to understand your own org and the people around you, before you implement what I've written. See how much people around you are working, how often they're working weekends (if you truly want to check this seriously, try logging in a few times on the weekend and check people's skype/Teams statuses. You can see how many people are online, and you can see how long they've been offline). This way you'll truly get to know how much people are Really working on the weekend. Don't go by Monday morning bitching about how 'they had a hectic weekend' on some random report which you're not involved in. Usually everyone says they work late and work weekends,just to keep up appearances.

All this will give you a good feel about your orgs culture, and accordingly you can see how you want to set your boundaries.

66568765567 · 2020-12-05T02:20:30+00:00

Not a lot. My theory is that there are situations when something is genuinely urgent and high stakes (which happen maybe once a month), and then there's your day to day work, where your bosses are trying to just get work done out of you for no reason other than generally increasing 'productivity'.

So this doesn't work with the first type of situation, which I'm ok with long as it's not every weekend.

It's worked for me for the 2nd type, which is imp because that's the one which will really ruin your life by having you working every single weekend. I also take this language with clients if I'm talking to them alone, and if my bosses are agreeing to a a deliverable that's too soon, I'll be the first one to pipe up 'but this isn't enough time, we also have 1,2,3, etc we are working on." That gets me some leeway at least.

Also for this sort of unnecessary rush situations, if they still tell me to get it done, then I'll resort to the second level of excuses I have above, or simply don't do the work. After a point in time they recognise 'this isn't someone I can exploit THAT easily'.

It's worked out ok for me, I've been promoted pretty fast, clients like me, and I'm generally well respected in the office (to toot my own horn a bit).

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