I'm a VP at start-up, spent 11+ years at big company hiring lots of folks out of college. I look at work experience first, if you actually did real stuff, got real results.
Good grades just validate what I see on experience, bad grades tell me something might be off - is it all smoke & mirrors.
And yes, it only matters for the first job. After that, I honestly hardly even look at what college you went to.
I'd suggest also breaking out your GPA for your major vs. overall. That tells me that you're really good at your major (probably related to the job you're applying for anyway) but that maybe you just are bad at liberal arts.
Marketing after product - totally disagree. Today marketing and product is one in the same, no way to tell when one begins and the other ends. Basically what he should have said is start with deeply understanding your target customer, that's the hard part and people always screw that first step up.
I broke my golden handcuffs to join WePay, a fast growing start-up in Palo Alto. I was at my prior company for 10+ years, had lots of unvested stock and guaranteed bonuses...and I was still generally happy. However, I just knew that WePay's culture and growth was pretty awesome and I couldn't pass that up. The way I got over it was that I just had to say to myself was that it was almost like I was going back to school - in this case, getting my BA in start-ups and that the stock I was giving up would be like tuition, an investment. I haven't regretted my decision...and it only takes the handcuffs to be broken once for you to know it can be done again!
Bravo! I think being a good manager can be learned but some people seem to just have a knack for it and for others it is definitely learned behavior. Sounds like you fall into the "I've got it" group.
You rock - can't believe that you brought two new babies into the world at the same time. I've worked full-time with 3 kids the entire time, including at as a senior leader at a start-up. It can be done! My rule of thumb - there are glass balls and rubber balls in your life. Know which ones will bounce back if you let them drop and which won't
the beef is against buying your brand keywords. I've always found brand keywords to be the best CPA though - much lower than non-brand. plus, you can cookie returning users and take them out of your conversion calc to see exactly how many new customers you are getting and what it is returning you. maybe it is just that google ads are expensive and competitive and there needs to be better alternatives to reaching people. I've yet to have great success with FB but still working it cause I want alternatives.
I've heard that there is also a 3:1 ratio in terms of feedback. People will hear the one piece of critical negative feedback and internalize it if you have also told them 3 positive things
Have you asked her whether she is truly happy either? Maybe she just needs an out too but because of the time she has vested, can't bring herself to do it either...but instead her passion and engagement has waned?
came from a big company, escaped to start-up world but also a marketer. take offense that marketers are the problem here. coders aren't the only ones who get the life blood sucked out of them by too much management. good marketers love to work with good coders and relish in creativity and risk-taking.
Good grades just validate what I see on experience, bad grades tell me something might be off - is it all smoke & mirrors.
And yes, it only matters for the first job. After that, I honestly hardly even look at what college you went to.
I'd suggest also breaking out your GPA for your major vs. overall. That tells me that you're really good at your major (probably related to the job you're applying for anyway) but that maybe you just are bad at liberal arts.