Chloe Shih

I did not know the game.

I did not understand it.

Yeah.

So your question is, did you think I made it?

When I went to TikTok, I finally became a product manager.

I've been trying to transition for two, three years at that point.

One of the most gatekept careers in tech ever.

It was such a struggle and I prepped so hard.

But once I joined that, I was like, oh, I finally on paper made it.

And so I'm going to try hard here.

um uh i mean i had a good time at meta facebook i just wasn't functionally a product manager i was in product operations so support for pm product teams and um i don't have anything interesting to say i was on facebook groups i had it's a great like i i really liked it there it was just i couldn't transition into the pm role easily because internal mobility is not an easy thing to do um

Sometimes it's easier to come from an outside company in than it is to transition inside.

There's all these like internal policies.

There's headcount.

Yeah.

So when TikTok reached out, I went through the interview process.

It was a real sweaty process.

And then I got the offer and I was like, oh, my God.

The interviews were pretty hard.

Yeah.