[hkarthik]

I benefited greatly from my EM mentor, who was a senior manager at my last company. Our meeting was arranged as part of an internal mentor match up, and then we just continued it over nearly 4 years of working there. I think we were the longest running mentor/mentee arrangement from that first match up!

I attribute my success largely to his support. He leaned into the mentorship by meeting with me weekly initially, and then bi-weekly as our schedules got tighter (we both got promoted to manage larger and larger teams). He was always extremely generous with his time, and always helped me sort out sticky situations and gave me direct feedback.