Ajay Prakash
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105 appearances
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1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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That sounds awesome. Yeah. So I'm Jay. I work for a multinational global analytics and decision tools company, and specifically in the education sphere with medical education. So there's all sorts of different things that we do, but I primarily work on a software. I'm a product owner or product manager. Probably part of my problem is that we're kind of in flux between those two.
titles at the moment. But I've worked at this position for about four years. I started very inexperienced and certainly underqualified. My former boss basically suggested that I should go into this role. And I really appreciated his because I would not have taken that step without it. But that means that I came in feeling already very underqualified.
And so I think that's definitely contributed to how I currently feel pretty stagnant in my role. I've definitely learned a lot. I don't think that I've been behind on anything, but I don't feel necessarily like I've had great coaching up to this point in terms of career growth. I think in terms of the specific role and what I do on a daily basis, I think I'm killing it.
I get good feedback, but in terms of what's the next step, where do I go from here? I feel comfortable, but I also want I mean, I would like raise, I would like, you know, maybe the next level up on my title. And so I just haven't quite figured out how to prove that, how to navigate the corporate structure, those kinds of things.
I have. I think I've been... comfortable with where I am and I'm okay that I have that I've been a little stagnant but I think once I start to think through what the future looks like I'm open to other opportunities but I know that there's still a lot that's possible at my current job so it's kind of just depends on on how I can figure out how to like best
advocate for myself in my current situation. And then I think that would also help me prepare if, if I was going to make a change.
I think that, as I mentioned, I started as an underqualified person. And I know that can sound imposter syndrome-y, but I know that I was recommended for this job that I wasn't quite ready for. And so I know that my starting salary is lower than market average. And so I would at least like to get bumped up with my salary.
And the only way that I really see that happening is for me to really make a strong case for why I'm ready for the next level. Okay.
I have some of them. I think I feel like my strengths and the best feedback I get are on more of the soft skills. And so I know that I am making a difference to the bottom line, but in terms of how to prove that, I definitely get stuck.
Yeah, I mean, we've shipped one very large new product that I got to work on from start to finish. So that was a really big deal. But the problem with that in terms of me being able to brag about it is that I'm the junior product manager on that role. And so the day-to-day stuff, like, yeah, I was totally in charge of that. But in terms of the big decisions, they weren't my calls.
So the level to which I'm able to like... prove that I'm leveling up when someone else was over me feels messy.
I think that makes complete sense. And being able to articulate my contributions to the greater whole as a junior is like probably the biggest gap.
Yeah, for sure. So a lot, I would say the majority of people that I work with within my department and across are long-term employees. And I definitely have seen lots of opportunities for growth and lots of people getting, you know, promoted or switching departments. And it's very flexible and our product team is very collaborative and
And so I feel like there's definitely room to grow and places for me to grow. And then, as I mentioned before, because it's such a large company, I'm definitely open to also transferring into a different sphere within the greater organization. And I think that my manager and the people that I work with are open to helping me get to those places.
But I don't have a strong sense of, I've been satisfied with what I've been doing. So I haven't felt like I need to, you know, change.
That's really great. I've been taking notes. I definitely have a couple people, primarily the person I work most closely with, the senior product person that I'm working under. I admire her a lot. And I think this is a good... She's not my manager and she's very busy. So I've been hesitant to... I'm not necessarily... trying to ask her to be like my quote unquote mentor or take up more time.
But I think this is a great kind of reminder that I have already identified that I really admire her and that I would like to know more about her path. And I actually told her earlier, I used the words, I really admire how you did that. And so I think this is a great like
obvious push, like you need to put myself out there a little bit more to ask her about her path and to kind of better steward my time with her so that I can actually learn more.
No, I think that's so helpful because I do work with this person daily, but I have been hesitant on how to connect with them further. And so this is like perfect advice for me, even just... Thinking through what kinds of questions do I really have and how can I be more useful to her and what can I do for her to improve that relationship?
No, I just feel like I got a confidence boost of like, okay, I've been maybe not reactive, but almost like asleep of like, what are my options? Like you said, in the information, I think you were spot on. I'm not ready to make a change, but I do need to know what the options are. I feel so much more confident when I know what the options are. And I feel like I'm empowered to actually...
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