Slootman: Graduates should avoid management consulting for real economy operating roles
Frank Slootman · No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman · Jun 29, 2023 · at 3:37
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman shares the career advice he gives to business school graduating classes with host Sarah Guo.
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“Don't go working for some consulting firm, you know, out of school, right? Try to get a real job in the real economy, building real products, selling real products. He says, you really need to feel what it's like, you know, to sort of be in the drive train of the economy, as opposed to I'm just eating out of somebody else's trough. And I start, I kind of sit on the vessel and glide along and I'm feeling good about myself, but you haven't really touched a real economy yet. And I really wish that for people early on in their careers to sort of feel the heat of competition and also the cold winds of threat of markets that are, you know, disappearing because that's the real world. And a lot of people choose jobs that are very removed from the real world. I don't think that's helpful for people's development in their careers.”
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