-: It's been a great job for me.
When I was leaving college I felt a lot of pressure
to do software development and it just the more
I thought about coding on a very small problem for,
you know, 8, 10 hours a day, it just didn't
feel like something that I could do and not get
burnt out on so really thinking about how
I could stay technical and stay near that space
without doing that was, you know, a big reason
why I got into product and that was really helpful.
At the end of the day I think a lot of people in tech
and how work really long hours do get burnt out.
The one thing I'd say I think has helped me not
fall into that pattern is that I work on
problems that I find challenging every day
and I feel like I work on different things
and I'm always challenged.
I'm always surrounded by smart people
and I learn a lot from them.
That is a lot of the reason why I'm excited to come in.
One of the things that I've really enjoyed
since I've graduated is working
on new products, products that don't traditionally
fit a model that's existed in the industry and
there's a lot of excitement there because
you know you really feel like you're working
on something new but it's much harder
to figure out where to invest your time,
what to build next.
There's a lot of time that it takes
to figure out how to sell it to customers
and to explain what you're building.
So those are some real key challenges
that we face and it's a lot of iteration.
You make a lot of mistakes where you try something
and you may think it's a great idea and then
slowly begin to understand what about it doesn't work,
why it doesn't work and then either pivoting
on that or creating something new is, you know,
making all those decisions is quite tough.