Hema

"I realized that I did not really like that very much and kind of chose to work in Consulting immediately after undergrad"

"I had to work with different teams...and understand the feasibility of the product and come up with the proposal of why it is a good idea to build the product...and present that document to everybody in the team by the end of my internship."

"In a day, I would kind of speak to two teams at least two three teams."

"As a product manager you kind of have to make certain decisions which are very strategic so having that mindful problem solving and thinking analytically becomes very important"

"I'm someone who thoroughly enjoys meeting new people and solving complex problems."

"My biggest challenge has been not having enough technical knowledge in the payment industry."

"I think I've kind of seen the greatest of talent in Amazon, for example where people would have done PhDs, people would have worked on products. Being able to meet such talent, work with such talent and learn from them is the biggest thing that I take away from this industry."

"People who are always on their toes and can multitask, with very good cross-functional leadership skills, thrive."

"writing is big for product manager because you kind of end up writing a lot of documents where you kind of have to communicate everything clearly and there's different set of stakeholders"

"What I've seen as a very common career path is that you start as an engineer, ...and then eventually over time you kind of move into product."

"always being open to learning new things has proven to be consistently important"

"I was very open to trying a lot of things even while in my undergrad. I think that definitely helped open up a lot of opportunities for me."

"being a female, I think I still come from a community where there's still struggle for educating women. So, I'm the first female to be working in my family."