Quarterly Career Thread

Thanks for the feedback here, super helpful. Was already getting started with some SQL course on my own and will continue.

I'll correct myself, I am familiar with agile as my engineering teams use the framework - but I have not had any explicit agile training. In planning- I coordinate with engineering in sizing each item, then prioritizing work- engineering breaks down each open Jira epic into sprints and I monitor progress in weekly sprint meetings until work is complete. I am not drilled in to every sprint as I am overseeing a pretty large body of work. Truthfully, I have had very little mentorship and my manager is really a skip level ( I don't have a direct manager)-- who mostly tells me not to ask him questions and to come with solutions. I was thrown into a pretty senior role without a product background and was told to swim, and I have done my best. Don't get me wrong, I interviewed and wanted the role- just didn't realize how unsupported I would feel. I would really love to be in an organization where I could hold a more junior position and learn from someone experienced, and progress-- as I enjoy the role and think I think I would thrive in a different culture.

Even if I had a more junior role here, I just don't think process or education matters much to the org and I would bet even the most senior product managers on my team- don't know SQL or how to speak intelligently about Agile. This was why I was hoping to move to another company sooner, but I understand it might not be simple to change at this point.

Separate- I mentioned I am in Fintech, I am at Bloomberg. Wondering if when I do make a switch I will be pigeonholed to the industry, how best could I set myself apart skillset wise to be industry agnostic?

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