Reframing Disadvantage

I was furious (at the world, not at her!) after reading this tweet storm.

← Blog I was furious (at the world, not at her!) after reading this tweet storm. embed I was reminded of an interview I had way back when. At this time, I was a relatively junior product manager, competing for coveted positions against other more senior PMs. I was getting rejected... a lot, and it was very discouraging having to compete with everyone else who was more senior than me. If they had a choice between a junior vs. senior hire, why would they ever pick the more junior one? One day, I hopped on a call with a recruiter that reached out to me for a PM position. It was a good conversatio

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