Charissa Cheong

4 days ago | businessinsider.com | Kiera Fields |Charissa Cheong |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 41-year-old Srikanth Narayan, the CEO and founder of Cache, from the San Francisco Bay Area. The following has been edited for length and clarity. My career began in San Francisco. I've been in Silicon Valley ever since, working at both startups and Big Tech companies. In 2021, after roughly eight years working at Uber and then Waymo, an Alphabet subsidiary, I decided it was the right time to take a leap and become an entrepreneur.

1 week ago | businessinsider.com | Kiera Fields |Charissa Cheong |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 30-year-old Shahad Ishraq, from Germany. The following has been edited for length and clarity. Reading Andy Jassy's new memo on generative AI, I'm not surprised by anything. I worked at Amazon for nearly three and a half years and left in late May because of the 5-day RTO mandate. My commute took an hour and a half each way, so I wanted to move to another job where I could still see my career progressing and do interesting work.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Kiera Fields |Charissa Cheong |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 55-year-old Alice Peacock from Reading, England. The following has been edited for length and clarity. I fully intended to go back to work after having my first child. I looked into nurseries near my workplace and tried to get increased flexibility to cut my hours at my company, but nothing seemed to be working out. My first child, Michael, was born in 2001, and I fell in love.

2 weeks ago | businessinsider.com | Kiera Fields |Charissa Cheong |Henry Blodget

This as-told-to essay is based on a transcribed conversation with 34-year-old Meghan Gezo, from Michigan. The following has been edited for length and clarity. In 2022, I left my job working remotely in people operations for a US company. Juggling my job and raising my one-year-old wasn't working. I wanted to take a break while I looked for another opportunity that would allow me to have better work-life boundaries.

3 weeks ago | businessinsider.de | Charissa Cheong

Dulski sagte, dass Soft Skills wie Anpassungsfähigkeit ihr geholfen hätten, die Karriereleiter zu erklimmen. Courtesy of Jennifer Dulski Jennifer Dulski begann ihre Karriere in den späten 90er Jahren und arbeitete sich in der Tech-Branche hoch. Anpassungsfähigkeit, Netzwerkbildung und Initiative haben ihr auf ihrem Weg geholfen.