My career is going nowhere. Before MBA from a top school, I was doing great in finance, after MBA I moved to product management at Amazon. I ended up in a team with a super problematic manager - put me on a dev plan in my third month of work. I completed the dev plan successfully and was looking to move teams. During the dev plan phase, I had reached out to a few recruiters and a recruiter from a very reputable, pre-ipo, people-dying-to-work-there-for-potential-stock-appreciation company replied. The company interviewed me for a product strategy role and I got through. Got an offer that increased my base by a bit and got a bunch of very valuable stocks. I took up the offer only to later learn that my role was that of a program manager. At this point I had limited options as my visa application had just been picked up in h1b lottery through my new employer. I decided to stick it out for a couple of years and go back to product management eventually. This company turned out to be worse than Amazon on terms of pip and politics. They have the most non-competent, abrasive people in leadership positions. Turns out my director (my skip) did not like my 'build fast, fail quick' style. I took her feedback and slowed down and then I was not meeting her expectations. Last week I was told I am being let go - no feedback given, one call with the hr and a bunch of docs to sign so that I get to keep my h1b status for a couple months. I have a few questions:
a) I need a job - have to pay business school loans. How do I justify two tenures of 8 months on my resume? Any advice on how to build my story...
b) I am feeling very low - I have reflected multiple times on my work at both the places. I acknowledge my weaknesses and things I could have done better. How do I convince myself I won't fail at the next job?
c) Before accepting a job how do you folks vet for potential signs of toxic culture especially when the company advertises heavily about their supportive, diversity oriented culture?
I am looking for a mentor as well - someone who has faced these challenges and can point me to some resources to keep mind off self harming, non-productive thoughts that I keep having. Tc -0.
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8 months of tenure is fine - blame it on Covid - lots of people got laid off.