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Built a DoD PKI for BlackBerry, launched the Amazon Appstore and AWS mobile dev services, then reworked Google Play while marking 10 years at Google. Claims that sponsorship beats mentorship, that perseverance matters more than interview puzzles, and that networking when not job hunting wins — one student applied to 40 internships and never reached an assessment. Practices include metrics-driven projects, sampling instead of reviewing every CL (engineers hitting hundreds of CLs/month), and moving half an org to Atlanta to recruit more diverse talent.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 7:30Mentorship vs sponsorship
- 15:14Recruiting mindset for managers
- 18:21Scaling leadership
- 25:46Navigating tech team politics
- 32:30Career advancement takeaways
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