UpTeam @ Tinkoff
Last week we had an inside event for experts who are involved in in-house training. The main part of the meeting was held in the form of a panel discussion, where several high-level managers answered a predetermined list of questions, and then bonusly answered questions from the room. The list of questions I found interesting and I decided to share my answers in this channel.
1. Were there moments in your career when you wanted to quit? How did you manage to get out of the crisis? Yeah, I've had crisis moments. In the past, it often ended up leaving companies where I had worked before. In Tinkoff, I also had crises, but I successfully went through them through finding new meanings and changing areas of responsibility. For example, when I moved from online involvement to the development of a mobile bank or became responsible for “Client interfaces, marketing and engagement”. Part of it I am. told report on YaTalks 2. What mistakes have you made in your development? (career and training) I had a developmental mistake in my sophomore year of MIPT when I got too relaxed, started playing online games, and almost dropped out of uni. This situation taught me two things:
- Online gaming is evil. (personally) You cannot stop in your development. Since then, I have not played computer games and am constantly engaged in self-learning. n 3. What do you allow yourself to be distracted by during the working day? To communicate with colleagues, study new technologies, read whitepapers:) 4. Leaders also tend to constantly compare themselves to others and suffer from frustration. Who are you comparing yourself to? I believe that a person should compare himself to himself, but an earlier version. The point is to see diff and see if you are growing as a specialist, a leader and just a person.) You can also find examples of cool guys that you want to be like. For example, I personally like it. Jeff Dean 5. What was the most unusual way of development you had? Best of all, I remember files - failed exams, interviews, performances. Given my propensity for self-reflection, I learned a lot from these moments. 6. What was the biggest facade of your career and what did it teach you? Before Tinkoff, I took on the role of acting CTO at a startup that looked beautiful on paper. But under the hood, everything turned out not at all as the founders told. From this I learned that it is necessary to ask in an interview "What happened to the person who was before me in this position?":) 7. How do you fight laziness? When you seem to know that you need to develop, but always postpone the same course or project You just have to do what you like. Then laziness doesn't come so often. Plus, you need to be able to catch work/life balance separately, and if there is not enough energy now, then it is easier to do tasks.
P.S. I told some of this on a podcast with Andrei Smirnov.Why and how to keep a professional motivated to learn for a lifetime"
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