Feb 19, 2020
RealSelf Response
6yCareer advancement is really challenging for companies to get right. I recall seeing an HR industry survey where just 1 in 5 employees felt their employer was doing a good job meeting career ambitions. That's an appalling disconnect and it's not something we will accept at RealSelf. On the contrary, we want to enable personal growth and we're going to continue to bring transparency to important aspects such as career pathing and clarity to why 30 of your peers received promotions in the past year. But no matter what tools, training and processes we roll out, career advancement depends first-and-foremost on a healthy, ongoing dialogue with your manager and leadership. You can imagine how easy it is for a company to have a vastly different perspective of what they want in the future of an employee than what an individual may seek. I doubt you came to Glassdoor for advice, yet I can't understate how important is for you to bring your career and personal goals into 1:1's and performance checkups. Likewise, identify training, mentoring and skills development opportunities you want to pursue for your next role, not just your current one.
Another area of challenge for early stage companies is staying focused. In the past few quarters I have not really observed the 80-percent behavior in practice beyond shipping MVP's. That said, with our product leadership changes we've introduced greater discipline in the product development process of looking ahead at the beginning of the month and back at the end of the month to ensure we are delivering on our commitments. If you see us slipping back to our old ways, please flag this and let me know!