Suppose you’re interviewing for a new role twenty years into your career. Will the folks interviewing you understand your real impact on any of your previous projects or companies? No, I guarantee they won’t. Instead, you’ll find yourself judged by a series of surprisingly subjective measures: your accumulated prestige, the titles you’ve had and companies you’ve worked at, your backchannel reputation, and how you present in your interview process. You can’t escape subjective interview practices, but you can deliberately accumulate expertise from doing valuable work. Indeed, that’s the only
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