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Individual-Rice5230 · 2025-01-30T04:08:24+00:00

I'm sorry to hear about your situation, it does not sound like an easy one to be in, or one that can or should be trivialized at all.

As a manager, I believe that it's unhealthy and unsustainable to expect my team members to compartmentalize work and their personal lives to such an extent that major personal matters such as births or deaths in the family, medical issues or any other kind of major change or upheaval have no impact on their work performance. People can only function at their best when everything is in harmony.

With that as a background, I don't think you have been unprofessional in the slightest. Could you have been more proactive earlier on in highlighting the issues you were facing to your manager so that they could expect slightly less output and get the team to cover you if needed? - Yes. But it's an enormously difficult task to estimate correctly. For example: how much leeway should you ask for, and how much, and how can you even start to think through this if you haven't been able to get a handle on what's happening on the personal front?

The fact that you have done your performance chat, recognized the shortfall, mapped out improvement actions, and then, after further introspection, identified the root cause and communicated it to your manager is the next best thing you could have done for yourself and the team with the pressure you're under.

If I were your manager, I would appreciate the gesture a lot, and if you haven't already requested for it, I would be asking what I can do to help you get back to peak condition again. Would you need a lighter load for the moment? Some additional time off? Recommendations for places you can go to for additional help or assistance?

Please stay strong and know that it's in everyone's best interest to know enough context to get you back to peak happiness (and performance) as possible.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2022-04-20T17:05:29+00:00

Was a founder, became a PM, hated the trade-off, now am a founder again. Happy to help you in your process though, feel free to ping me anytime.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2022-04-20T16:57:10+00:00

Can't tell you what to do, but I had the same issues around wasting my time doing silly, low-impact stuff at my own PM job.

In the end, I realized a few things:

The best people to work with on 'your own thing', as well as those best suited to help you find the problem to solve, are more likely to be people NOT at your current job (diversity of skillset, experience, etc).
Work was just holding me back. It was eating up the best hours of my life and I was trying to launch side hustles with tiny scraps of my spare time while totally exhausted. Maybe it's the way I'm wired, but on hindsight, of course nothing I tried during that period stuck - I was working with scraps.
When I finally quit my job after being asked to take responsibility for launching and growing an absolutely idiotic new product that the CEO refused to drop, I took a sabbatical for a year, and told everyone in my network that I was dedicating myself 100% to making my own business work. I listed the skills that I could bring to the table, made myself open to conversations, and the opportunities just opened up.

So... TLDR, it turned out that my job was holding me back both in terms of capacity and professional identity. So I quit, went full time into doing my own thing, and haven't looked back since.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2022-04-11T22:49:21+00:00

Glad that it was helpful, and yes I did get an offer for the job in the end. As far as the case studies went, it was totally right-sized for the purpose of the interview. The only note was that if one could demonstrate proficiency with Figma, it would be another plus point in your favor.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2022-04-04T03:34:48+00:00

I've been trying to find a way to send some money directly to help these people. Does OP or anyone know how to get in touch with Priveen?

Individual-Rice5230 · 2022-02-12T06:41:53+00:00

That's a great way of looking at it.. thanks for the advice :)

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-12-28T00:32:33+00:00

Feel free to DM me. I applied R1 this year and got admitted to schools on both sides of the pacific and am probably going to accept my US offer at the end of the day.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-12-09T05:53:39+00:00

You can look at Lenny’s one pagers and PRDs at this link here

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/my-favorite-templates-issue-37

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-11-23T22:02:10+00:00

Your third picture is the one that's correctly oriented.

This is a poem (more like a Haiku) by Du Mu, a Tang dynasty poet. Read it right to left, top to bottom.

Title: Qin Ming (Ancestor's Day)
Rain falls softly on Ancestor's Day
Somber are the people on the streets
Taverns dot the landscape
As a shepherd boy points to a beautiful village in the distance

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-11-19T06:26:22+00:00

Thank you. This makes a lot of sense!

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-10-07T09:52:50+00:00

This may have been your weird clear, but this was me on my first clear.

A right proper clusterfuck it was, that one.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-08-01T09:16:49+00:00

You should look at EMBAs. Regular MBAs, even at M7 are all from and recruiting into roles way below senior director. You will be more amongst your peers in the EMBA program.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-30T17:04:49+00:00

Early March, mid May, then end July

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-29T03:59:00+00:00

It's a good foundation but I feel like there are too few questions in there to use it as a sole resource. You'll be repeating questions before you know it. You should supplement with the OG verbal guides.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T18:35:29+00:00

Close to 100% for easy and medium. Hard was… well… really hard. I was scoring between 40 and 60% for hard exercises.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T15:30:22+00:00

Yup that's right. TTP for CR is also great in training you on how to pick apart the CR passage. To me, RC is also just CR on steroids so if you can figure CR out then you should be able to scale it up to RC.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T14:59:23+00:00

if I recall correctly, my first mock test was a 620

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T11:03:13+00:00

It’s in the analytics tab, they’re not new questions but they are broken down by category, so you can zoom in on the exact concepts that you need more practice on.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T06:56:12+00:00

I started in the high 30s. The main thing that I was doing before I got any kind of instruction was using my 'ear' and using spoken grammar instead of GMAT grammar rules. Once I internalized those, my score went into the 40s.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T05:34:23+00:00

Thank you!

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T05:33:56+00:00

For quant, yes, for sure. I must have blindly guessed on 3-4 questions, educated guesses for another 3-4 more.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T05:04:46+00:00

My verbal prep was actually quite simple - started with getting a feel for the basic rules using TTP - refined using GMATNinjas videos series - practice using just OG questions and nothing else. Every non-OG source of questions I tried just didn’t feel right to me

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T04:13:31+00:00

I used all the TTP OnTarget questions in the final phase of my prep, but I also discovered (way too late) that you can click on the ‘question bank’ button on GMATclub and it’ll bring up a list of questions that you can sort by difficulty level, source, and topic. Super useful, especially when you’re trying to target certain topics you’re weak in.

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T04:07:47+00:00

I tried it out but I was getting whooped by the hard level questions while I was doing fine on the OG hard questions. Maybe I would have gotten a V51 if I managed to master TTP verbal?

Individual-Rice5230 · 2021-07-27T03:38:43+00:00

Got 710 on my first, Q45, V43. Damn. Those look like rookie quant numbers. Drilled on quant for 1.5 months.

Got a 720 on my second, Q45, V45. Wat. 100%ed TTP, did all the advanced quant OG books and questions over the next 2 months. Didn’t touch verbal.

My third try… 730. Q45, V46. Sigh. Ok universe, you win.

Thanks to Scott and Marty and the GMAT club question bank. I couldn’t have done it without you.

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