Getting a job as an engineering executive.

I started my first executive job search when I was 25.Eventually, I got an offer to lead engineering at a startup with four engineers,which I turned down to join Uber.It wasn’t until a decade later that I joined Calm and started my first executive role.If you start researching executive career paths, you’ll findfolks who nominally become engineering executives at 21 when they found a company,and other that are 30+ years into their career without taking an engineering executive role.

As the...