AMA - 19 years experienced VP
Worked on UX DESIGN, mobile apps, FE , micro service, devops, AR/VR, AI & ML. Holds 25+ patents.
AMA!
Talking product sense with Ridhi
9 min AI interview5 questions
Wow thanks for doing this!
What do you miss the most about being a junior person?
What do you enjoy the most about being so senior?
As a junior person, I miss chit chatting with my peers without thinking much. Because as a leader, I need to talk less and listen more.
As a leader I enjoy the visibility at work at any given point of time. Be it product direction, organisation changes etc. helps me to course correct my team.
Seriously tell me the does software industry has any runway left for innovation or its going to be SaaS only? I find today's technology extremely overhyped, no one wants to see what use case one can provide before pouring tons of money
It depends on which industry and how your leadership is open for innovation,
Btw imho money and innovation has no connection.
- How many switches you’ve had in your career?
- What things you do to set boundaries or manage expectation for good wlb
- When or if you lost imposter syndrome?
- Anything you did which at the time felt like a great idea but then it worked against you?
- Do you have passive income or a hobby that you’ll eventually switch full time into?
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I changed around 11 companies so far, never sticked with a company for more than 1.5 years, get bored and at the same time I create the value propositions needed, so that my presence/absence makes a huge difference and always make sure I am learning something new(not through work)
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WLB is a myth, following razor sharp Schedule works for me.
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Many times
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My first idea on patent, when I explained to seniors, they laughed at it and eventually I filed it when I joined their competitors.
My ex company filed a case against me for violating NDA
- I don’t have any passive income, I enjoy working out, connect with startup folks and brainstorm and bought few founders idea to life. Helps me with lot of networking.
My passion to spend another 20 years in industry and become a professor. No big plans
Is it true that once you hit 40 companies do ageism?
No way.. my peer who is 35 years of experience is still doing hands on and solving tech problems at scale.
Aging doesn’t move you out, being a people manager does..
Do you feel politics happen at the senior level role. How do you set urself on a path to leadership roles?
I stay away from politics, and unless it impacts me. I try to solve the issue rather creating my own maze of political game.
I generally follow agree to disagree in most of scenarios and solve problems in very objective and actionable manner
Thanks for sharing. Since you are working in a hardware company, below are few questions that I have-
- what are your pointers to a hardware engineer (ASIC Design) on navigating the journey in this industry for next decade?
- Considering the fact that there very few top tier hardware companies to switch viz Apple, nvidia, Qualcomm etc, should one stay longer at a company or keep switching frequently?
- Will the compensation of hardware engineers catch up to that of software engineers?
Btw I work in a product MNC and this hardware is my gig helping this startup to get their idea to life
Hardware asic design space is very narrow.. better to stick in a company for long.
Hardware folks were paid generally less
I am a fresher, trying get in to ui design presumably trying for product design . Currently i am learning ui/ux course by google and developing my portfolio.
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can you give a (sort of) roadmap to being a product designer?
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based on current fiasco(massive firing/Ai) what should I avoid and things not to avoid?
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does "not able to code" will affect my career? If yes what are the languages i should learn?
I have answered a similar question.. please go through the thread..
If you are good at something, you hardly worry about the changes in market.
Coding in absolutely not needed for UX designers.. but try to understand the nuances of tech, because you going to design for the tech devices…
Man either this guy is busy or a good troll
Sorry.. I use this app only during evening.. I follow a well formed schedule, so that’s the reason for delay
What’s your current TC . Just want to sort of know benchmarks
I would like to skip it…😃
I'd appreciate any inputs for a fresher entering the UX design space, alternatively I'm also considering Technical Writing as a career choice. Any insights would be really helpful! Cheers
UX is very subjective and relative to a product. We can wireframe and design a experience of a same app in N number of ways.
The best way to start UX is form inspiration, on how other built it, how other handled the usability, information architecture and interaction design.
Understanding the design patterns and complexities and limitations of devices or browser is required.
And finally understanding the usage of tools like photoshop, figma etc
On other hand content writing is a skill , how to communicate a context in a simple words so that motor load to the user is reduced.
All the best..