Title is it. Just started a new job and wanting to share learnings and tips. AMA

What field

What job/field?

Product management and working in the tech space

Tech / product management

How get gf

Gotcha. What were you doing before this and what was the pay like?

Working as a senior a***yst at another small tech startup

Previously was making 72k and 5k bonus but didn’t get bonus this year

hold this W

Senior a***yst but 26 years old

How many hours a week?

so you have no college degree. how did you get your foot in the door? personal connections or self-learning/working on a portfolio?

50-60. It’s a senior role.

Previously as Senor a***yst was working 60-70 at times (startup culture is tough) so this is less time than I was working before

Yeah so I went to college for a bit then dropped out to work on a small startup with friends. It didn’t really work out at all so I needed something. I researched a lot and found a really small startup doing cool things. They had an entry level support position open that paid like 15 an hour. I took it and became lead of the team in 1.5 years.

Then I took a risk and did an internship (lost benefits and had to move). Internship was in the data field. Then I leveraged that internship to get an entry level a***yst job. Became a senior a***yst in a year and then leveraged that to get the product management job. Studied for like 100 hours because I had never been a product manager before.

Does this include stock options and potential bonuses? Because staff engineers at the FAANG companies don't even make 300k

Congrats OP, that's dope

Yeah it’s stock plus salary. But you get stock every year and you can use/sell it after 9 months. Unlike a lot of FAANG companies where you have to wait 4 years before you can sell stock

Netflix?

Nah it’s not a faang company

Definitely a Netflix salary

Highkey brag thread. Congrats tho

Pic of offer email ?

Big moves bro fr Also in the field mostly self taught how hard was it to get past the no degree hurdle for instance in data science it can be limiting without one
Also you ever plan on getting one later down the road