Nikhyl Singhal: evaluation

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…Like personal brands? Yeah, personal brands. "Hey, I've worked for this company, they've delivered products, they've been at scale." So then people are like, "Oh, that person certainly knows what [inaudible 00:37:54] doing." And it's like, "Well, tell me about all the different experiences you've had." But now if every way of building software and how we deliver product is completely alien to how it was in the last 10 years, how you delivered in that sort of version one is going to be less and less relevant. So lots and lots of feedback that I'm hearing from interviews is, put you in a scenario. What tools do you use? What's your judgment? How do you think? It's not about five years ago, you shipped this thing, what was your thinking that went into it? And so how modern you are now becomes the career advice, not did you pick up the established brands? Because what if the established brands is very much working in a way that's not current? You work there for six years, you come out, and it feels like you're in a totally different world. So that's why I think the next two years and these changes are so profound, and quite frankly confusing to people. That is such an interesting insight that the logo, it used to be fancy to have all these logos on your resume, and now you're saying sometimes that may hurt you because that company's not seen as a very AI forward company. And second of all, people are looking for just like, "What have you actually done? Are you actually aware what's going on?"…

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