A Microsoft engineer shares the strategy she used to get promoted 4 times in 5 years

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Ritvika Nagula, a software engineer at Microsoft, said her resume helped her land four job offers out of graduate school.

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I crafted a masterplan at Google to try to get promoted as fast as humanly possible. This is what went into it.

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Jerry Lee, 29, was a former manager at Google. While working at Google, Lee said that he strategized his workload to achieve his most important goal — getting promoted as quickly as humanly possible.

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For young, promising venture capitalists, the path to partner has suddenly become much steeper

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As funding to startups stagnates, tech investors are putting fewer points on the board, making it harder to get promoted.

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I was rejected from my first promotion at Google. Here's how I took control of my career and landed 3 promotions.

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Stanescu shared 3 ways she changed to land a promotion.

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I'm a digital nomad in Big Tech who got promoted to senior management in 2 years. Traveling constantly hasn't held me back.

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Andre Maxwell had been a digital nomad for a year when he landed a remote role at Okta.

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How to respond when you suddenly get laid off, fired, or promoted at work

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Matt Abrahams recommends taking a pause when receiving unexpected news.

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The easiest thing I did to get promoted quickly at Google and Meta was to 'eat the frog' for my boss

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Andrew Yeung built trust and a good reputation by completing the tasks his bosses didn't like to do themselves.

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I obsessed about becoming a VP. When I finally got promoted, it was a huge disappointment.

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Katy McFee was disappointed when she finally reached the VP level.

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The 10 companies that give the biggest raises, the best promotions, and have the strongest culture

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Coca-Cola ranked first on this year's American Opportunity Index.

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Meet the millennials who don't want to be managers. They say the extra pressure isn't worth it.

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Business Insider talked to two millennials, not pictured, who are happy being individual contributors instead of becoming managers.

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