I've been a Principle Product Mgr at a public company (10K+ employees) for 3 years. I came to know my manager was moving out of the company, so I started a very early conversation with a SVP within the CTOs office if there was an interesting opportunity in their org. At the same time my new manager and a new senior HR partner join and in some senior meeting hear a douche VP (who leads a business unit aka like a GM, and has serious clout in the company) discredit & annihilate me completely when he came to know I was up for a promotion. So now they're biased! This douche VP and I share a pretty decent work relationship. He did this since I had challenged him a couple of times if what we're building was really required in the market! Now, the SVP from CTO office reached out to my new manager & the new HR business partner even before I could formally interview or even before we figure out if there is a role for me. My new manager didn't speak too favorably about me but at the same time tells me that the current Product org needs me but I won't get a promo :0 So now, executives in my org and the CTO org think I'm full of shit!! And Product colleagues who joined the company literally 2 months ago have been green lighted for a promotion! Oh btw...I sort of sensed stuff happening and started interviewing without much prep...went to the final rounds with 3 companies and was dinged :( Within a months time...everything has come crashing down! It is hard showing up to work when all you've worked hard for in past 3 years is not appreciated and your reputation shot! I've no idea what to do! Thanks for reading! TC - $300K
Office politics suck Insecure people participate and propagate it. Good employees get burnt.
They clearly don't care about you, no need to care about them. Keep up the interviews and you'll find something, don't fret about it.
Thanks for the support.
Maybe he's incensed by your Trumpian usage of exclamation points.
Get new job!! Your current environment is hostile and toxic. I’d also caution in the future how you pose objections to leadership so it comes across as thoughtful and not like you’re trying to prove something. Sometimes it’s not the content but the delivery!
Yes, learnt it the hard way. Delivery matters more then content most of the times.
All battles are not worth picking. Stay calm and show them that you are not affected by their actions and keep interviewing externally.
This sucks OP. I tried to avoid politics at one job and it bit me in the ass. You need to focus on either damage control and reputation repair, or on interviewing to get a new gig. Put all your energy into one to get the best result. If you haven’t, read The First 90 Days. Also TC?
Thanks man! Updated the TC!
We’ve heard only one side so far, what does this douche VP have to say?
TC?
Look for a job. Interview hardcore and leave ASAP. There's nothing else for you to do
If your company is that large, how come the name is ‘new’? Guess that debunks the myth that posters with ‘new’ in their name work for really small companies.
Is that more of case of how many employees from the “new” are on blind and not how many employees a company has?
Yeah small companies will be more likely to have New in the name, ceteris paribus. But any company could have it