Charlene Lee
- Charlene Lee is a former product manager at Google who wishes she had a guide prior to starting her first job.
- She shares a few lessons she's learned throughout her career, like that it's more useful to manage your energy instead of your time.
- Lee also learned that promotions are an arbitrary yardstick based on someone else's definition of growth.
I still remember the day the recruiter called me with a job offer from Google. I danced around my dorm room for hours celebrating what was to come. Landing a position in Google's coveted Associate Manager program was a dream, and all the years of late-night problem sets and internships were finally paying off.