Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

What does that mean, real sweaty process?

What makes a hard interview?

OK, so you wound up as a product manager at TikTok.

And what was that like?

What does that mean?

You question authority so much?

Um, would you kind of say that, like, would you describe yourself as an idealist?

Like, I'm not sure what word I'm looking for here, but I'm, I'm just sort of noticing like the, like, cause I, like you said, there's, there's like a trend, right?

There's a pattern of like, there are a couple of themes that I'm sort of picking up on.

One is like junior versus senior, right?

Like, like, like power dynamics, whether we're talking about clubs, whether we're talking about,

entry-level job at Google, there also seems to be a theme of like, you are a valuable resource, but overstep.

um yeah and and then there's also like something about you that seems to evoke and so this is where i don't know how much of this is like common right so i've heard all kinds of mixed things about big tech in san francisco so i've heard that things are incredibly toxic i've heard things are

like can be toxic.

Like I've heard there's like pockets of good stuff.

And so what I'm trying to understand is, you know, if we're, if I'm thinking about your journey, how much of this is like, cause you kind of do present in a very, um, you present in a very, um,

Yeah.

Right.

So there's a certain and so I'm and I think you've like pointed out there are certain things that will seem to catch people off guard.

Right.